Le bluff cache la stratégie.

Because bluff is a masculine noun in French, so it takes le in the singular.

• le bluff = the bluff
• un bluff = a bluff

French nouns have grammatical gender, and it does not always match logic or the word’s origin. Even though bluff comes from English, in French it is treated as masculine.

Yes. Bluff is a real French noun, borrowed from English. It is commonly used in contexts like:

• poker
• negotiation
• deception
• pretending confidence or strength

So le bluff in French can mean a bluff, a deceptive move, or a false show meant to mislead someone.

Because cache is the conjugated verb here.

The base form is cacher = to hide.

In this sentence, the subject is le bluff, which is third person singular, so the present tense of cacher is:

• je cache
• tu caches
• il/elle/on cache
• nous cachons
• vous cachez
• ils/elles cachent

So:

• Le bluff cache la stratégie.
• literally: The bluff hides the strategy.

By contrast:

• cacher = infinitive, to hide
• caché = past participle, hidden

French usually follows the same basic word order as English:

subject + verb + object

So in:

Le bluff cache la stratégie

• Le bluff = subject
• cache = verb
• la stratégie = object

That means the bluff is doing the hiding, and the strategy is what is being hidden.

Because stratégie is a feminine singular noun, so it takes la.

• la stratégie = the strategy
• une stratégie = a strategy

French uses articles more often than English does, especially with general ideas or abstract nouns. So even where English might sometimes omit the, French often keeps it.

In French, every noun has a grammatical gender. Stratégie happens to be feminine, so it uses:

• la stratégie
• une stratégie

A helpful pattern is that many nouns ending in -ie are feminine, though not every single one is. So stratégie fits a common pattern.

The accent in é tells you how to pronounce that vowel: a clear ay sound, not a silent e.

So stratégie is pronounced roughly like:

stray-ta-zhie

More precisely in IPA: /stʁa.te.ʒi/

The accent is part of the correct spelling, so you should write stratégie, not strategie.

In this sentence, cache is pronounced /kaʃ/.

That sounds roughly like kash in English.

Important point: this is the French verb form cache, not the English noun cache as in computer storage. A native English speaker may want to pronounce it like English cash or cache, but in French it is simply kash.

Usually, yes. Cacher commonly means:

• to hide
• to conceal

Depending on context, Le bluff cache la stratégie could be understood as:

• the bluff hides the strategy
• the bluff conceals the strategy
• the bluff masks the strategy

So cacher is a very flexible verb for hiding or concealing something.

Yes, grammatically you could. But the meaning changes slightly.

• la stratégie = the strategy, a specific or understood strategy
• une stratégie = a strategy, one strategy among others

So:

• Le bluff cache la stratégie suggests a particular strategy is being hidden.
• Le bluff cache une stratégie suggests that a bluff hides some strategy, without specifying which one.

French often uses definite articles in places where English might be a little more flexible.

In Le bluff cache la stratégie, the sentence sounds like it is talking about the bluff and the strategy as identifiable concepts or as specific things in context.

This can happen in French when speaking about:

• general truths
• ideas already known from context
• concepts treated as concrete elements in a discussion

So even if English might sometimes prefer something like Bluffing hides strategy or A bluff hides strategy, French naturally uses Le and la here.

Grammatically, bluff here is a noun, not a verb.

So le bluff means the bluff or bluffing as a concept/tactic.

French often uses a noun with an article to express an idea that English might sometimes express with an -ing form. So depending on context, le bluff can feel like:

• the bluff
• bluffing
• the act of bluffing

That depends on how broadly the sentence is being interpreted.