assumed gender?

Salut tout le monde! In lesson 1.3 it says that "Est-ce que vous le comprenez ?" means "Do you understand him? (polite form)". That seams a little unintuitive to me because the french version doesn't refer to gender. Any thoughts? Merci!

Actually, the sentence *does* convey a masculine speaker/object with the *le* (or a masculine "it"). If the object of the sentence were a woman, then it would be "Est-ce que vous *la* comprenez ?"

Thanks for the clear response, I thought I was missing something! Merci beaucoup.

And of course, if it were plural (them), the phrase would be "est-ce que vous les comprenez?"