El titular té por.

to have

Breakdown of El titular té por.

• el titular: the bank account holder
• la por: fear

Questions & Answers about El titular té por.

What is the grammatical structure of El titular té por?

It is a very common Catalan pattern:

• El titular = the subject
• té = the verb
• por = the noun fear

So literally, Catalan says the holder/owner/etc. has fear, where English would usually say is afraid.

The structure is:

subject + tenir + por

This is why the sentence may look a little different from English even though the meaning is simple.

Why does Catalan use té por instead of something like is afraid?

Because Catalan normally expresses this idea with tenir por, literally to have fear.

So:

• té por = is afraid
• tenen por = are afraid
• no té por = is not afraid

This is idiomatic in Catalan. English uses to be afraid, but Catalan usually uses to have fear.

A related expression is estar espantat / espantada, which means to be frightened/scared, but tenir por is the basic everyday pattern.

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