Le coéquipier prépare la stratégie.

to prepare

Breakdown of Le coéquipier prépare la stratégie.

• le coéquipier: the teammate
• la stratégie: the strategy

Questions & Answers about Le coéquipier prépare la stratégie.

Why is the sentence Le coéquipier prépare la stratégie and not just Coéquipier prépare stratégie?

French normally needs an article before common nouns.

• le coéquipier = the teammate
• la stratégie = the strategy

In English, you can sometimes drop articles in headlines or notes, but in normal French sentences, that sounds incomplete. So the articles le and la are expected here.

Why is it le coéquipier but la stratégie?

Because French nouns have grammatical gender.

• coéquipier is masculine, so it takes le
• stratégie is feminine, so it takes la

This grammatical gender does not necessarily mean anything about real-world biological sex for objects or abstract ideas. It is just part of how French nouns work.

How do I know coéquipier is masculine, and what would the feminine form be?

In this sentence, you know it is masculine because of the article le.

The feminine form is usually coéquipière.

So you could have:

• Le coéquipier prépare la stratégie. = a male teammate / the masculine form
• La coéquipière prépare la stratégie. = a female teammate

In real French, the masculine form can also sometimes be used in a general or mixed-gender sense, depending on context.

Why is the verb prépare and not préparer?