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How do you pronounce Això és amor?
A common Central Catalan pronunciation is roughly:
- Això → eye-SHO
- és → ess
- amor → uh-MOR
Put together: eye-SHO ess uh-MOR
A few notes:
- x in això sounds like sh.
- The final ò is an open o sound.
- és has a clear e sound and is stressed because of the accent mark.
- amor is stressed on the second syllable: a-MOR.
Exact pronunciation varies a bit by dialect.
What does Això mean grammatically?
Això is a demonstrative pronoun, meaning this in the sense of this thing or this situation.
In Això és amor, it stands alone as the subject of the sentence. So it is not placed before a noun; it replaces one.
Compare:
- Això és amor. = This is love.
- Aquest llibre... = This book...
So:
- això = this / this thing / this matter
- aquest / aquesta = this before a noun
Why is it això and not aquest?