LA.......... in french is like our THE...........
LA toast, LA car, LA sandwich)))))) the word for the is le and for nouns in the second category it is la. The two categories are generally called masculine and feminine. The names masculine and feminine are conventional and probably stem from the fact that some masculine nouns refer to male people or beings, and some feminine nouns to female people or beings. But in the vast majority of cases, there is no real relationship between a noun's meaning and its gender. Consider, for example, that bureau and office can have similar meanings, but the former is masculine and the latter feminine; or that the noun personnel is feminine but can refer to both men and women.
When you very first start learning French, you'll probably learn whether a noun is masculine or feminine by learning it with the word le or la: le garçon, la fille etc. Initially, this is probably the most effective way of learning when to use le and when to use la.
oh and sometimes its DEE............like in de bur......butter,
