While I drink my coffeeBefore you practise: rules and examples
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Shopping: quantities
Quant/quanta/quants/quantes agree with the noun: quanta aigua, quantes pomes. En replaces the noun with a quantity: vull dues pomes → en vull dues. Keep the quantity.
Voldria mig quilo de pomes. — I would like half a kilo of apples.
Quantes pomes vols? — How many apples do you want?
Age and family: tenir
Tenir: tinc, tens, té, tenim, teniu, tenen. Age uses have: tinc vint-i-sis anys. 21–29 use -i- and hyphens: vint-i-un. After 30: trenta-dos.
Tinc vint-i-sis anys. — I am twenty-six.
Tens germans? — Do you have siblings?
An ordinary day: -ar verbs
Central Catalan regular -ar pattern: parlo, parles, parla, parlem, parleu, parlen. Remove -ar and add -o, -es, -a, -em, -eu, -en. One present can describe a habit or a current activity. First-person forms differ in other regions.
Estudio català. — I study Catalan.
Treballes avui? — Are you working today?
Where things are
Hi ha introduces existence: hi ha una farmàcia. Ser gives ordinary location: la farmàcia és aquí. Estar gives a state: estic cansada, la porta està oberta. These are beginner patterns; do not apply Spanish rules mechanically to every context. Estar: estic, estàs, està, estem, esteu, estan.
Hi ha una farmàcia. — There is a pharmacy.
La farmàcia és al carrer Nou. — The pharmacy is on Carrer Nou.
1. Replace pomes: vull dues pomes → ___.
2. Build the phrase
I would like half a kilo of apples.
3. Build the phrase
How many apples do you want?
4. How do you say “I am 26”?
5. Build the phrase
I am twenty-six.
6. Build the phrase
Do you have siblings?
Review from Nº2These items appeared in the previous issue. See what has changed since then.
7. Complete: nosaltres ___ català.
8. How do you say “there are two cafés”?