Word
El gos borda.
Meaning
The dog barks.
Part of speech
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Pronunciation
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Questions & Answers about El gos borda.
How do you pronounce 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.
What does el do here?
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.
Why is it gos and not something else? Is gos masculine?