El pelatge és estrany.

Pelatge means fur, coat, or animal hair. It is used for the hair covering an animal’s body, not normally for human hair.

So El pelatge és estrany means something like The fur is strange or The coat is unusual.

El is the masculine singular definite article, equivalent to the in English.

It appears because pelatge is a masculine singular noun:

• el pelatge = the fur / the coat

Unlike English, Catalan nouns have grammatical gender, so the article has to match the noun.

It is masculine.

That is why you get:

• el pelatge
• estrany rather than estranya

The adjective has to agree with the noun in gender and number.

Because pelatge is masculine singular, the adjective must also be masculine singular.

Agreement here works like this:

• masculine singular: estrany
• feminine singular: estranya
• masculine plural: estranys
• feminine plural: estranyes

So:

• El pelatge és estrany.
• La textura és estranya.

És is the 3rd person singular of ser, meaning is.

Since el pelatge is singular, the verb must also be singular:

• el pelatge és = the fur is

This is the normal way to describe a characteristic or quality.

The accent in és helps distinguish it from es, which can be a pronoun in Catalan.

It also marks the stressed vowel. So:

• és = is
• es = a pronoun, depending on context

So the accent is important both for meaning and spelling.

Catalan often distinguishes between ser and estar, somewhat like Spanish.

Here és is used because estrany is being presented as a quality or characteristic of the fur, not just a temporary state.

So:

• El pelatge és estrany. = The fur is strange/unusual.
  This sounds like a description of what it is like.

In many beginner contexts, ser + adjective is the expected pattern for this kind of statement.

Estrany usually means strange, odd, weird, or unusual.

Depending on context, it could suggest:

• something looks odd
• something seems unusual
• something is unexpected

So the sentence could be understood in slightly different ways:

• The fur is strange.
• The coat looks unusual.
• Its fur is odd.

A rough English-friendly guide is es-TRANY, where ny sounds like the ny in canyon or like Spanish ñ.

So estrany is not pronounced with a normal English n-y sequence. The ny is a single sound.

A rough full pronunciation of the sentence is:

• el pe-LA-tge es es-TRANY

The exact vowels vary by dialect, but that is a useful beginner approximation.

A rough approximation is puh-LA-juh or peh-LA-juh, depending on accent.

The tg in pelatge gives a sound like the j in judge.

So:

• pelatge ≈ puh-LA-juh

This is only approximate, but it is a helpful starting point.

Yes. El pelatge és estrany follows a very normal Catalan pattern:

• article + noun + verb + adjective

That is the neutral, standard way to say it.

Catalan can sometimes change word order for emphasis, but this version is the plain, natural one.

Normally, if you mean the fur, you keep el:

• El pelatge és estrany.

If you remove it, the phrase usually stops sounding like a complete ordinary sentence and may sound more like a heading, note, or very context-dependent expression.

So for a basic full sentence, el should stay.

Yes, in practice it often can, depending on context.

Catalan says literally The fur is strange, but if everyone already knows which animal you are talking about, English might naturally translate it as:

• Its fur is strange.

So the Catalan sentence does not explicitly say its, but context can supply that meaning.

Yes. It is a complete sentence:

• El pelatge = the subject
• és = the verb
• estrany = the description

So grammatically it is fully complete and natural on its own.