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Hi Can anyone help me translate this word "The accessories". I need it for my business name

Actually I already researched on it individually.

The Word "The" in french "La".. am i right?

Then the word "Accessories" in french "Accessoires"

so my understanding is, if you combined the 2 words it'll be "La accessoires"

but when i researched the words together "The accessories", the result is "L'accessoires".

I'm planning to buy a domain but laccessoires.com is already taken. and when I tried the word la accessoires (laaccessoires.com) it is still available. So the question is can i use "la accessoires" instead of "l'accessoires"? is it a right combination of french word?

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"The" can mean "le", "la", "l'" or "les".
In your case it's "les" because "Accessoires" is the plural of "accessoire".
(With plural you can't use "L'" in french, instead vous have to use "Les".)

So the proper form is:
"Les accessoires"
thanks.. :)

so if i use singular word "accessoire" the proper form is "le accessoire" or "la accessoire".. am i right?:)
No (sorry^^) if you use the singular the proper form is:
"L'accessoire"
We don't use "le" or "la" when the related word begins by a vowel. Instead we use "l' ".
There are certainly exceptions to this rule but I can't remember which ones, and "accessoire" is not one of these exceptions...
Ok, thank you so much for helping me. :)

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