La disponibilitat és a la candidatura.

The availability is in the job application.

Breakdown of La disponibilitat és a la candidatura.

• ser: to be
• a: in
• la candidatura: the job application
• la disponibilitat: the availability

Questions & Answers about La disponibilitat és a la candidatura.

Why is there la before both nouns?

Catalan uses the definite article much more often than English does. So la disponibilitat and la candidatura are both perfectly normal.

A native English speaker may expect something more like bare nouns, but Catalan often keeps the article:

• la disponibilitat
• la candidatura

This is especially common when the noun is specific, understood from context, or used as a general concept in a formal sentence.

Why is disponibilitat feminine?

Because disponibilitat is a feminine noun. In Catalan, nouns ending in -tat are very often feminine, for example:

• la ciutat
• la universitat
• la possibilitat

So it takes the feminine singular article la.

Candidatura is also feminine, which is why you also get la candidatura.

What does the accent in és do?

The accent is important. És with an accent is the 3rd person singular of ser, meaning is.

Without the accent, es is usually a pronoun, not the verb:

• és = is
• es = reflexive/pronominal oneself / itself / each other, depending on context

So in this sentence, és is the verb and must have the accent.

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