Le coéquipier veut remporter la revanche.

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Breakdown of Le coéquipier veut remporter la revanche.

• le coéquipier: the teammate
• la revanche: the rematch
• remporter: to win a contest

Questions & Answers about Le coéquipier veut remporter la revanche.

Why is it le coéquipier and not just coéquipier?

French usually needs an article before a singular countable noun. So le coéquipier means the teammate.

If you removed le, the sentence would sound incomplete in normal French.

• le coéquipier = the teammate
• un coéquipier = a teammate

Here, le tells you we are talking about a specific teammate, or about the teammate in a general/contextual sense.

Why isn’t it l’coéquipier?

Because elision to l’ only happens before a vowel sound or a mute h.

Even though coéquipier contains vowels, it begins with the consonant sound k:

• coéquipier → starts with c pronounced k

So you keep le:

• le coéquipier
• not l’coéquipier

Is coéquipier masculine? How would you say it for a female teammate?

Yes, coéquipier is the masculine singular form.

The feminine singular form is coéquipière.

• le coéquipier = the male teammate
• la coéquipière = the female teammate

In your sentence, le shows that the noun is masculine singular.