While I drink my coffeeBefore you practise: rules and examples
These topics cover this set, including review questions. Open the guide and refer to it while answering.
Whose bag is this?
Possessives agree with the item: el meu llibre, la meva bossa, els meus llibres, les meves claus. Teu/teva and seu/seva follow the same pattern. Seu can mean his/her/their; context or de l’Aina identifies the owner. This: aquest/aquesta/aquests/aquestes; that: aquell/aquella…
Aquesta és la meva bossa. — This is my bag.
Aquell és el teu llibre. — That is your book.
Not everything is clear: questions
Què means what; qui who; on where; quan when; com how. Per què? asks why; perquè means because. Put no before the verb: no parlo. With a pronoun: no ho entenc.
Què vols fer? — What do you want to do?
Per què estudies català? — Why are you studying Catalan?
A message about the find
Review ser, tenir, articles and agreement. Meva agrees with habitació: la meva habitació, el meu quadern. The full possessive pattern comes later.
Ara visc a Mataró. — Now I live in Mataró.
La meva habitació és petita. — My room is small.
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?
1. Choose “my keys”.
2. Build the phrase
This is my bag.
3. Build the phrase
That is your book.
4. How do you write “why” in a question?
5. Build the phrase
What do you want to do?
6. Build the phrase
Why are you studying Catalan?
7. Complete: la bossa ___ vermella.
8. Build the phrase
Now I live in Mataró.
9. Build the phrase
My room is small.
Review from Nº3These items appeared in the previous issue. See what has changed since then.
10. Replace pomes: vull dues pomes → ___.
11. How do you say “I am 26”?