"The boy has a tortoise."

Translation: Le garçon a une tortue.

[tantiv7]

Is there ever a way to tell if a word is masculine or feminine? Or is it just a matter of memorization?

[ikwilvertalen]

There aren't really any fool-proof rules that work for every word, but there are at least some patterns and hints that can help you guess the gender. See here

[websmasha]

Does it eat oranges or apples?

[tass.hssayne]

the said une is for girl and un is for boy and they just added une to a boy sentence . whos with me

[FrenchFille8386]

The word 'tortue' is female

[NAviva1]

But how do you know which words are female/feminine and which are male/masculine??

[EllyMoody]

You can't know, I'm a Hebrew speaker and it's the same.. A refrigerator is male and a washing machine is female. Maybe there are some methods of knowing which groups were given which gender and why.. But I don't think it's in this app

[ShaeSmith6]

the tortoise is the girl not the boy. each object like people have genders. the tortoise is the "une"

[FrenchFille8386]

Why 'a' not 'as'?

[websmasha]

Because 'as' is used with 'tu' . For example, 'Tu as une chatte.' But with 'Il/elle/on', we use 'a', for example, "Il a un oiseau . De rien;)

[Adriana658372]

What’s the difference between “le garçon” and l’garçon”? Someone plz tell me because of that mistake I got it wrong.