Catalan Nouns

Welcome to the third Catalan lesson about nouns. This time we will first learn about fruits and vegetables, followed by grammar rules, then food items, finally a conversation in Catalan to help you practice your daily phrases.

potatoes patates

tomatoes tomàquets

onions cebes

carrots pastanaga

fruits fruites

apples poma

bananas plàtan

oranges taronges

Nouns Grammar Rules

In general nouns refer to a person, an object, or abstract ideas. For example: a fast runner the noun is [runner] because it refers to a person. The examples below use nouns in different ways and places to demonstrate how they behave in a sentence.

Grammar + Rules - Catalan
do you have milk? [verb + noun] té llet?
I have milk and coffee [preposition + noun] tinc llet i cafè
he has three apples [number + plural noun] té tres pomes
she only has one apple [number + singular noun] ella només té una poma
we live in a small house [adjective + noun] vivim en una casa petita
I like our breakfast [pronoun + noun] m'agrada el nostre esmorzar

The following are nouns of food items that you might be interested in learning and memorizing.

bread pa

milk llet

butter mantega

cheese formatge

coffee cafè

sandwich entrepà

meat carn

chicken pollastre

fish peix

breakfast esmorzar

lunch dinar

dinner sopar

Conversation in Catalan

Now we finally reach the fun part, the practice of the daily conversations. These phrases are used to get to know new people, and break the ice.

English - Catalan
Do you speak (English/ Catalan)? parles (anglès/català)?
Just a little una mica/miqueta
I like Catalan m'agrada el català
Can I practice with you? puc practicar amb tu?
How old are you? quants anys tens?
I'm thirty three years old tinc trenta-tres anys d'edat
It was nice talking to you ha sigut un plaer parlar amb tu

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