Questions & Answers about A la meva filla li agrada la música.
Why does the sentence start with A la meva filla?
Because with agradar, the person who experiences the liking is treated as an indirect object, not as the grammatical subject.
So A la meva filla literally means to my daughter.
Catalan structures this idea more like:
To my daughter, music is pleasing
rather than:
My daughter likes music
That is why you see the preposition a before la meva filla.
What does li mean, and why is it there if a la meva filla is already in the sentence?
Li is the indirect object pronoun, meaning to her or to him.
In this sentence, both appear:
- A la meva filla = to my daughter
- li = to her
This is very normal in Catalan. The full noun phrase and the pronoun often appear together. This is called clitic doubling.
So the sentence literally has both:
To my daughter, to her, music is pleasing
That sounds redundant in English, but it is natural in Catalan.
Why is the verb agrada singular?