"The rice"

Translation: Le riz

[cubbins]

Rosetta Stone taught me that this is "Du riz" not Le?

[smeylie]

it's bot good, but well, let's put some exemplee:
DU: I'm eating rice> je mange du riz
LE:The rice in the supermarket are cheap > le riz du supermarchez est pas cher.

It depends of where the noun is. But yes, it's more familiar to say du in a sentence, but it can be bad for the structur.

no: du riz du coin > better to say Le riz du coin (Local rice)
yep: la couleur du riz > good (the colour of the rice)

hope it help

[hothead64]

Du , de, or des means some so in that case it means "some rice"