Catalan nouns are inflected for gender (masculine or feminine), and number (singular or plural). There is no case inflection. Articles and adjectives agree in gender and number with the noun they refer to.
Usually, masculine nouns are unmarked, feminine nouns carry the suffix -a; and the plural is marked with the suffix -s, which makes the feminine ending turn into -e-. Thus, the most common declension paradigm for Catalan names is the one that follows:
adjectives agree in gender and number with the noun they refer to. Usually, masculine nouns are unmarked, feminine nouns carry the suffix -a; and the plural is...
adjectives agree in gender and number with the noun they refer to. Usually, masculine nouns are unmarked, feminine nouns carry the suffix -a; and the plural is...
Catalan: In nouns and adjectives, maintenance of /n/ of medieval plurals in proparoxytone words. E.g. hòmens 'men', jóvens 'youth'. Eastern Catalan:...
Everglades, the Azores, the Pleiades). Proper nouns can also occur in secondary applications, for example modifying nouns (the Mozart experience; his Azores adventure)...
qualities of the entities denoted by those nouns. In languages with grammatical gender, most or all nouns inherently carry one value of the grammatical...
The Catalan Countries (Catalan: Països Catalans, Eastern Calatan: [pəˈizus kətəˈlans]) are those territories where the Catalan language is spoken. They...
verbs are -eixo, -eix, -eixen, -eixi. In Western Catalan, the /n/ of medieval plurals in proparoxytone nouns and adjectives is maintained. For example, hòmens...
Modernisme (Catalan pronunciation: [muðərˈnizmə], Catalan for "modernism"), also known as Catalan modernism and Catalan art nouveau, is the historiographic...
Catalan cuisine is the cuisine from Catalonia. It may also refer to the shared cuisine of Northern Catalonia and Andorra, the second of which has a similar...
Catalan myths and legends are the traditional myths and legends of the Catalan-speaking world, especially Catalonia itself, passed down for generations...
Northern Catalonia, North Catalonia or French Catalonia is the formerly Catalan-speaking and cultural territory ceded to France by Spain through the signing...
translated Catalan names by the Institut d'Estudis Catalans (Institute of Catalan Studies) in Barcelona. Nevertheless, there are Catalan surnames that...
Catalan nationalism is the ideology asserting that the Catalans are a distinct nation. A related term is Catalanism (Catalan: catalanisme, Spanish: catalanismo)...
a Catalan flavor. He spent most of his life in Paris, returning to his native Barcelona only during and after World War II. A tradition of Catalan art...
Valencian Community of Spain to refer to the Romance language also known as Catalan, either as a whole or in its Valencia-specific linguistic forms. The Valencian...
distinguished in English: nouns, determiners, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, and conjunctions. Nouns form the largest word class...
("Everyone is talking about it."); En vinc. ("I'm from there.") Unmodified nouns or nouns preceded by numbers, quantifying adverbs or an indefinite article: Quantes...
before suffixes attached to proper nouns.) However, if two nouns are connected, but not by ownership, then the second noun generally takes an ending of possession...
The Institute for Catalan Studies (Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans, Catalan pronunciation: [instiˈtud dəsˈtuðis kətəˈlans]), also known by the acronym...
with their corresponding nouns in case, number and gender. Finite verbs agreed with their subjects in person and number. Nouns came in numerous declensions...
capitalizing all nouns including common ones. Unlike English, the names of months, days of the weeks, and derivatives of proper nouns are usually not capitalized:...
singular and identical to the nominative in the plural, for all inflected nouns. Nouns with a nominative singular ending in -a have a vocative singular usually...
The Catalan rumba (Catalan: rumba catalana, IPA: [ˈrumbə kətəˈlanə]) is a genre of music that developed in Barcelona's Romani community beginning in the...
This table explains the conjugation of auxiliary Catalan verbs. The past, also called preterite, is rarely used in the spoken and written language and...
for the Italian and Romanian heteroclitic nouns, other major Romance languages have no trace of neuter nouns, but still have neuter pronouns. French celui-ci...
(Argentina, Paraguay) In these languages, animate nouns are predominantly of common gender, while inanimate nouns may be of either gender. Danish (Danish has...
A castell (Catalan pronunciation: [kəsˈteʎ]: literally, castle) is a human tower built traditionally at festivals in a part of Catalonia (Spain), now...
most Germanic languages, nouns have a grammatical gender. The English language is the major exception to this, as most nouns in the English language became...
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