Questions & Answers about El gos borda.
A simple English-friendly approximation is:
el goss BOR-duh
A bit more carefully, in Central Catalan it is often pronounced roughly like:
əl gos BOR-duh
A few helpful notes:
- el is often reduced, with a very short vowel.
- gos has an o like the o in British not or off, not like English go.
- borda is stressed on the first syllable: BOR-da.
- The r in Catalan is usually tapped, similar to the Spanish single r.
El is the masculine singular definite article, so it means the.
So:
- el gos = the dog
Catalan articles change for gender and number:
- el = masculine singular
- la = feminine singular
- els = masculine plural
- les = feminine plural
Because gos is a masculine singular noun, it takes el.