"The man is drinking a beer."

Translation: L'homme boit une bière.

[IanKuchini]

So bois is singular, but in this case we use boit. Can someone help me on this one? Very new to French, Je suis désolé.

[TommyTrude1]

That's how we conjugate this verb.

Je bois (I drink)

Tu bois (You drink)

Il/elle boit (he / she drinks)

Nous buvons (we drink)

Vous buvez (you drink)

Ils/elles boivent (they drink)

here's a link to help you out

http://www.dummies.com/languages/french/french-verbs-for-dummies-cheat-sheet/

[Dyselxic]

Very helpful thanks!

[WrierJester1978]

For beer, do we use "un" or "une"?

[TommyTrude1]

une. It is a feminine noun. Une bière, la bière

[Hemal691200]

Is Le homme and l'homme the same thing?

[Heather.Mnhrt]

Yes but we don't use "le homme" it's a mistake, you only can say "l'homme"

[Tirzah278872]

If a word starts with a vowel or silent H you use l'

[arpan_007]

Why cannot we say, "le homme", in earlier lessons we used to read/write like this.

[n6zs]

Sorry, there was never "le homme". It must be contracted to "l'homme".

[Karla-137]

What i can't understand is "un" is male "une" is female but in some sentences they are all over the place. It's confusing.