"The child is eating the lemon, you are drinking milk."

[whatsapolecat]

i was under the understanding that "du" meant some, so i wrote "le lait" and got it wrong....help?

[Sitesurf]

"le lait" is "the milk" - definite article
"du lait" is (some) milk - partitive de+le, contracted in "du"

[Timegiver84]

Why is the answer "l'enfant" rather than "le enfant?" Also "l'homme" vs "le homme"

[Sitesurf]

A number of determiners have to change whenever there is a conflict between two vowel sounds.
For example, instead of "le enfant", we use an elision and an apostrophe : "l'enfant" to ease a nice flow of sounds.
The same applies with words starting with a non-aspired H, like "l'homme", "l'hôtel" (but "le haricot")

[Timegiver84]

I see...similar to "a" and "an" in English. Merci beaucoup!