Questions & Answers about La mascota menja pinso.
La is the feminine singular definite article, meaning the.
In Catalan, it is very common to use the article with nouns, just like in English. Since mascota is a feminine singular noun, it takes la:
- la mascota = the pet
If you wanted to say a pet, you would use una mascota.
Because mascota is a feminine noun in Catalan. Grammatical gender does not always depend on whether the animal is biologically male or female.
So even if the pet is male, you can still say la mascota because the word itself is grammatically feminine.
This is something English speakers often need to get used to: grammatical gender belongs to the noun, not necessarily to the real-world sex of the thing.
Menja means eats.
It is the third-person singular present tense form of the verb menjar, which means to eat.
So:
- menjar = to eat
- menja = he/she/it eats
In this sentence, menja agrees with la mascota, which is singular.