La mascota no para de bordar i vol escapar-se.

No. Mascota is a feminine noun in Catalan, so it takes la, regardless of whether the animal is male or female.

• la mascota = the pet
• If you want to specify the animal’s sex, you would usually do that separately.

So the grammatical gender of mascota does not automatically tell you the pet’s biological sex.

No para de + infinitive is a very common structure meaning:

• doesn’t stop ...-ing
• keeps ...-ing

So:

• no para de bordar = it won’t stop barking / it keeps barking

This is an idiomatic pattern in Catalan.

Because the verb parar often takes de + infinitive when it means to stop doing something.

Compare:

• parar = to stop
• parar de bordar = to stop barking
• no parar de bordar = to not stop barking

So the de is part of the normal grammar of this structure.

Bordar means to bark.

It is the verb used for the sound a dog makes:

• El gos borda = The dog barks
• No para de bordar = It won’t stop barking

Because in Catalan, i means and.

This is one of the most basic differences from Spanish, which uses y.

So:

• i = and

In this sentence, it joins two actions:

• no para de bordar
• vol escapar-se

Vol is the third-person singular present form of voler, which means to want.

So:

• vol = wants

In the sentence, the subject is la mascota, so:

• La mascota ... vol escapar-se = The pet wants to escape / run away

Because Catalan often leaves out subject pronouns when the verb form already makes the subject clear.

Here, la mascota has already been mentioned, so there is no need to repeat anything like it.

Catalan commonly does this:

• La mascota no para de bordar i vol escapar-se
• literally: The pet doesn’t stop barking and wants to escape

This sounds natural in Catalan.

Escapar-se means to escape, to get away, or to run off.

The -se is a clitic pronoun, and with an infinitive in Catalan, it is often attached to the end with a hyphen:

• escapar-se

This is very common with infinitives:

• rentar-se = to wash oneself
• moure’s = to move
• escapar-se = to escape / run away

In this sentence, escapar-se suggests the pet wants to get away or run off.

Sometimes you may see escapar, but escapar-se is very common when talking about a person or animal getting away or running off.

For a learner, it is safest to understand:

• escapar-se = to escape / get away / run off

In sentences about pets, children, or people slipping away, the pronominal form is especially natural.

In Catalan spelling, unstressed pronouns are attached to an infinitive with a hyphen.

So:

• escapar-se
• veure’l
• rentar-se

That hyphen is standard Catalan orthography.

No. In this sentence, vol comes from voler = to want, not from volar = to fly.

This is an important distinction:

• voler → vol = wants
• volar → vola = flies

So here:

• vol escapar-se = wants to escape not
• flies away

Yes. The present tense in Catalan can describe something happening right now or something happening generally / repeatedly.

So this sentence could mean:

• the pet is currently barking and trying to get away, or
• the pet has this behavior in general

The exact interpretation depends on context.

Yes. A very common alternative is:

• No deixa de bordar

This also means it doesn’t stop barking.

But no para de bordar is very natural, everyday Catalan and easy to understand.