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.
What time shall we meet?
The traditional quarter-hour system counts towards the next hour: un quart de tres = 2:15, dos quarts de tres = 2:30, tres quarts de tres = 2:45. For schedules or clarification you can use digits: a les dues quinze. Time-telling conventions vary by region.
És un quart de tres. — It is 2:15.
Són dos quarts de tres. — It is 2:30.
Reading a message and a schedule
You do not need every word to use a timetable. Find obre/tanca, the day, time and meeting point. Useful numbers: trenta 30, quaranta 40, cinquanta 50, seixanta 60.
El museu obre a les deu. — The museum opens at ten.
Tanca a les sis. — It closes at six.
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?
1. What time is dos quarts de quatre?
2. Build the phrase
It is 2:15.
3. Build the phrase
It is 2:30.
4. A museum opens 10–18, except Monday. When can you visit?
5. Build the phrase
The museum opens at ten.
6. Build the phrase
It closes at six.
Review from Nº4These items appeared in the previous issue. See what has changed since then.
7. Choose “my keys”.
8. How do you write “why” in a question?