"The alcohol is strong!"

Translation: L'alcool est fort !

[bullywoolyarns]

what are the rules for using forte and fort

[AmirKaramu]

forte is for the female and fort is for male.

[danyscott1314]

I thought 'alcool' was feminine as you use de l'alcool rather than du alcool. Where am i going wrong?

[InvertedGo]

The "de l' "applies to all nouns that start with a vowel, regardless of whether they are masculine or feminine. So unfortunately you can't use it to figure out what gender the noun is.

[Luischen97]

one of the sentences was the alcohol is german :D
being a german i find that sort of funny

[bulletrage]

only a wee shot and that's all

[BakinToast]

Is "l'alcool" masculine or feminine?

[xbender84]

Masculine

[ennada]

why not le alcool?

[Iflana]

You need to abbreviate with the two vowel sounds. LE + ALCOOL = L'ALCOOL

[SamaAhmed1]

"Le" alcool
It is" l' " cause of "a"lcool (start with vouel) & it is masculine word

[CheBeGerry]

My sentences went:
Je suis seule
Je suis fort
L'alcool est fort !

Wow duolingo is going through some struggles Haha

[Jhan523]

Why can we not use puissant?

[AliceFennelly]

I was wondering the same.....

[Troubador30]

Could you have said puissant?

[Daleswords]

I just got a warning that I left out the space that Duo thinks should be between <l'> and <alcool>. Is this a real thing? Should it really be l' alcool instead of l'alcool? If so, this seems really odd to me coming from English contractions.