Answer:
The pair French/language represents the following relationship:
D. item and category.
Step-by-step explanation:
Imagine we have the following words: English, Portuguese, Spanish, French, and language. Even though the first four words are all languages, the word "language" itself is not a language. "Language" is the category to which English, Portuguese, Spanish and French belong. In other words, French is an item in this list, an item of this category.