L'entitat bancària té una sucursal bancària.

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Breakdown of L'entitat bancària té una sucursal bancària.

• tenir: to have
• l'entitat bancària: the banking institution
• la sucursal bancària: the bank branch

Questions & Answers about L'entitat bancària té una sucursal bancària.

Why does the sentence start with L' instead of La?

Because entitat begins with a vowel, Catalan shortens the definite article la to l' before it.

So:

• la entitat → l'entitat

This is very similar to elision in French or Italian. In this sentence, L' stands for la, not el, because entitat is a feminine noun.

How do I know that entitat is feminine?

You know it from the article and adjective agreement:

• l'entitat = the entity
• bancària ends in the feminine singular form

So the phrase l'entitat bancària shows feminine agreement throughout. In Catalan, adjectives usually agree in gender and number with the noun they describe.

Why is it bancària and not bancari?

Because bancària must agree with the feminine noun it modifies.

Compare:

• entitat bancària = banking entity / bank entity
• sucursal bancària = bank branch

Both entitat and sucursal are feminine singular, so the adjective is also feminine singular: bancària.

If the noun were masculine singular, you would usually get bancari instead.

What does té mean here?