mephila03

[viscid sapphire]

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[normal latch]

most nouns starting with H are an "h muet" - aspirated are generally foreign words (essentially, where it would've been historically pronounced)
but more or less just learn what ones are aspiré, there isn't really another way to know

[past spruce]

Ohh, so most of the time I have to use "cet" + noun with an h... "male " ones that is

[gentle igloo]

it really is just a question of memorization, unfortunately
while there are probably more 'h muet' than 'h aspiré' in French, a lot of common h words have an 'h aspiré'
hamburger
hockey
haut
haricot
etc.

[upbeat charm]

Yeah, ce/cet is a masculine thing since with feminine nouns you always go for cette

cette histoire (liaison /sɛt ‿ is.twaʁ/)
cette hache (no liaison /sɛt.aʃ/)