The
"The" in French
colloquial or regional usage
(the + comparative, the + comparative)
comp.
(the + comparative, the + comparative)
comp.
(the + comparative, the + comparative)
l'
(article)
la
(article)
le
(article)
le
(introducing dates in a letter, such as "the 1st of May 2025")
le
(used as an alternative to a possessive pronoun before body parts)
le
(stressed, indicating that the object in question is the only one worthy of attention)
le
(with a superlative)
le
(used with the name of a member of a class to refer to all things in that class)
les
(article)
les
(with an adjectival noun, as in “the hungry” to mean “hungry people”)
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.