La llet és sobre la taula.

to be

Breakdown of La llet és sobre la taula.

• la llet: the milk
• sobre: on
• la taula: the table

Questions & Answers about La llet és sobre la taula.

Why is there la before llet? In English we often just say milk without the.

Catalan uses the definite article more often than English, including with mass nouns like llet.

So la llet can mean:

• the milk in a specific situation, or
• sometimes just milk, where English would use no article

In this sentence, la llet most naturally refers to some specific milk already understood from context.

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What does és mean, and why does it have an accent mark?

És is the third-person singular form of ser, meaning is.

So:

• la llet = the milk
• és = is

The accent matters because és is different from es:

• és = is
• es = a reflexive/object pronoun, like oneself / itself / each other in some contexts

So the accent helps distinguish two different words.

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Why is ser used here? Could I say està instead?