Must i use la, le. l' etc... in front of country or city names?

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Rohit Shah

Yes,you need to use the definite articles for referring to countries.
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Yes, mostly it's important for countries.
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La is used with countries whose names end with "e". L' is used with countries whose names start with a vowel. Le is used for rest of the countries. But, there is an exception with Mexique. We call it Le Mexique.
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In case of names of countries we must use the definite article(le/la/l')before the name of the country.In french all nouns are either masculine or feminine .there is no neuter gender. If the country is masculine we use le e.g. Le Japon.If it is feminine we use La for e.g. La Suisse.However if the name...
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In case of names of countries we must use the definite article(le/la/l')before the name of the country.In french all nouns are either masculine or feminine .there is no neuter gender. If the country is masculine we use le e.g. Le Japon.If it is feminine we use La for e.g. La Suisse.However if the name begins with a vowel le or la change to l' for e.g. L'Inde.we donot use the definite article before the name of a city. read less
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You normally use Definite article le, la, l', as a prefix to country names but you do not use definite articles as prefix to city names
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Oh yes you must indeed. That is the peculiarity of french. All french words have a gender. Countries included
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These La, Le, Les are being used for singular and plural of gender...OK...whereas country or city names usually refer De Francoise, De Espanol etc....hope you got it ???!!!
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le , la or l' are used in front of countries.
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It depends on the masculin or feminin nouns. If it's masculin and name not starting with voyelle, then you use Le, if its feminin and not starting with Voyelle, use La or else use L' for the name staring with voyelle.
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It depends on the masculin or feminin nouns. If it's masculin and name not starting with voyelle, then you use Le, if its feminin and not starting with Voyelle, use La or else use L' for the name staring with voyelle.
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