Le tamis enlève les petits morceaux, et la cuisson devient plus régulière.

In French, nouns usually need an article much more often than in English. So instead of saying simply sieve, French normally says the sieve: le tamis.

Here, le is the masculine singular definite article, because tamis is a masculine noun.

Tamis means sieve, strainer, or sometimes screen, depending on context.

It is a masculine noun, so it takes masculine forms such as:

• le tamis = the sieve
• un tamis = a sieve

Its final -s is part of the singular word, so tamis is singular here even though it ends in s.

Enlever can mean several related things, including:

• to remove
• to take away
• to lift off

In this sentence, Le tamis enlève les petits morceaux, it means the sieve removes the small pieces.

The form enlève is the third-person singular present form, matching le tamis:

• j’enlève
• tu enlèves
• il/elle enlève

The accent in enlève is part of the spelling of this conjugated form.

Les petits morceaux means the small pieces.

French often uses the definite article when referring to a known group, a general set involved in the situation, or the specific pieces being talked about. In context, these are the bits the sieve removes.

If you said des petits morceaux, that would mean some small pieces, which is also possible in other contexts, but it would feel less specific.

So:

• les petits morceaux = the small pieces
• des petits morceaux = some small pieces

Petits describes morceaux, so it has to agree with it.

Morceaux is:

• masculine
• plural

So the adjective must also be:

• masculine
• plural

That gives petits.

Compare:

• un petit morceau = a small piece
• de petits morceaux = small pieces
• une petite pièce = a small piece/part (feminine noun, so petite)

Morceau is the singular form: a piece / a bit.

Its plural is morceaux, because many French nouns ending in -eau form the plural by adding -x:

• un morceau → des morceaux
• un bateau → des bateaux

So les petits morceaux means the small pieces / bits.

La cuisson means cooking, the cooking process, or the state/quality of cooking depending on context.

It is a feminine noun, so it takes:

• la cuisson
• une cuisson

That is why the adjective later is feminine too: régulière.

In cooking contexts, cuisson often refers not just to the act of cooking, but to how evenly or properly something cooks.

Devenir means to become.

So:

• la cuisson devient plus régulière = the cooking becomes more even/regular

Devient is the third-person singular present form, matching la cuisson:

• je deviens
• tu deviens
• il/elle devient

French often uses devenir + adjective to express a change of state:

• Il devient froid. = It becomes cold.
• La cuisson devient plus régulière. = The cooking becomes more even.

Here plus means more.

So plus régulière means more regular or, more naturally in this context, more even / more consistent.

This is the normal French way to make a comparative:

• régulier = regular
• plus régulier = more regular

Because cuisson is feminine singular, the adjective becomes régulière:

• masculine singular: régulier
• feminine singular: régulière

Because it describes la cuisson, which is a feminine singular noun.

French adjectives agree with the noun they describe.

So:

• un résultat régulier = a regular result
• une cuisson régulière = an even/regular cooking process

In this sentence:

• noun: la cuisson → feminine singular
• adjective: régulière → feminine singular form

Et simply means and. It links the two related ideas:

• Le tamis enlève les petits morceaux
• la cuisson devient plus régulière

Yes, you could split it into two sentences:

• Le tamis enlève les petits morceaux. La cuisson devient plus régulière.

But using et makes the connection clearer: removing the small pieces leads to more even cooking.

Literally, régulière does mean regular, but in cooking context it often means even, uniform, or consistent.

So although the word resembles English regular, the most natural translation in this sentence may be:

• the cooking becomes more even or
• the cooking becomes more consistent

This is a good example of a word that is not translated the same way in every context.

A rough pronunciation guide is:

Le tamis enlève les petits morceaux, et la cuisson devient plus régulière.
luh ta-mee on-LEV lay puh-tee mor-SO ay la kwee-SON duh-VYAN ploo ray-gyoo-LYAIR

A few useful points:

• tamis: the final s is silent
• enlève: the stressed-sounding part is -lève
• les sounds like lay
• petits: the final s is silent
• morceaux: the final x is silent
• cuisson: nasal ending in -son
• devient: the ending has a nasal sound
• plus here is normally pronounced ploo because it means more

Yes, depending on context, filters out could be a very natural translation.

Literally:

• enlever = to remove / take away

But if a sieve is doing the action, English often prefers:

• The sieve removes the small pieces
• The sieve filters out the small pieces

So filters out is a good contextual translation, even though the French verb itself is simply enlever.