Raspallo el pelatge de la mascota.

Because Catalan often drops subject pronouns when the verb already makes the subject clear.

Here, raspallo already means I brush, so jo is not needed.

• Raspallo el pelatge de la mascota. = I brush the pet’s coat.
• Jo raspallo el pelatge de la mascota. = also correct, but jo adds emphasis, like I’m the one who brushes it.

Raspallo is the first-person singular present tense form of the verb raspallar.

• raspallar = to brush
• raspallo = I brush

A useful thing to notice: raspall without the final -o is a noun meaning brush. So:

• un raspall = a brush
• raspallo = I brush

Because pelatge is a masculine noun in Catalan, so it takes el.

This may feel a little unexpected if you are used to guessing gender from the ending, but many Catalan nouns ending in -atge are masculine:

• el viatge = the trip
• el paisatge = the landscape
• el pelatge = the coat/fur

So the article has to match the noun’s grammatical gender: el pelatge.

Not quite.

• pelatge usually means an animal’s coat, fur, or overall covering of hair
• pèl means hair or fur more generally, often as a material or in a less collective sense

So in this sentence, pelatge is natural because we are talking about the pet’s coat as a whole.

Compare:

• el pelatge de la mascota = the pet’s coat/fur
• el pèl de la mascota = the pet’s hair/fur

Both can be possible in some contexts, but pelatge sounds more specifically like the animal’s coat.

Yes. Catalan very often expresses possession with de:

• el pelatge de la mascota = literally the coat of the pet
• natural English translation: the pet’s coat

So de la mascota is the possessive part.

It is also de la because:

• mascota is feminine
• de + la stays de la

By contrast:

• de + el = del

For example:

• el collar del gos = the dog’s collar
• el pelatge de la mascota = the pet’s coat

Yes, grammatically you could.

• Raspallo el seu pelatge. = I brush its coat / his coat / her coat

But seu/seva can be ambiguous, because it can mean his, her, its, your, or their depending on context.

That is why el pelatge de la mascota is often clearer. It tells you exactly whose coat it is.

No. Mascota is simply a feminine noun in Catalan.

That means it takes:

• la mascota
• not el mascota

But grammatical gender does not automatically mean biological sex. The pet itself could be male or female.

So la mascota can still refer to a male pet.

Yes. This is a normal, neutral Catalan sentence:

• Raspallo
  • el pelatge de la mascota
• verb
  • direct object

Catalan often uses this straightforward order in simple statements.

You can change the order for emphasis, but the original version is the most neutral and natural for everyday use.

Because Catalan still uses the definite article with possessed things in many ordinary expressions.

Here, el pelatge means the specific coat we are talking about, and de la mascota tells you whose coat it is.

So the structure is:

• el pelatge = the coat
• de la mascota = of the pet

Together: the pet’s coat

A rough guide for an English speaker is:

• raspallo: the ll is a palatal sound, roughly like ly for many learners
• pelatge: the tg sounds like the j in judge
• mascota: fairly close to how it looks, with stress on -co-

Very roughly:

• raspallo ≈ rahs-PA-lyo
• pelatge ≈ peh-LA-jeh
• mascota ≈ mahs-KO-ta

Actual pronunciation varies by dialect, but those approximations are a good starting point.