FRENCH ARTICLES French has three articles: the definite article, the indefinite article and the partitive article. They agree with nouns in gender and number. In general, they are used in a similar way to English articles, but there are several important differences. 1.1 Forms Definite masculine singular : le (l’) feminine singular : la, l' plural: les Indefinite masculine singular : un. feminine singular : une plural: des Partitive Masculine singular: de l’, du feminine: de la (de l’) Plural des 2 The definite article The definite articles are le, la, les ‘the’. Contracted forms are used when the prepositions de ‘of, from’ or à ‘to’ (and sometimes ‘from’: emprunter à ‘to borrow from’) precede the articles le, les: de+le>du, de+les>des, à+le>au, à +les>aux. C’est le livre du professeur. It’s the teacher’s book. Ce sont les copies des étudiants. They are the students’ papers. Engl...