La meva mare vol parlar amb la metgessa perquè està malalta.

In Catalan, possessives usually go with the definite article, so la meva mare is the normal pattern.

Compare:

• la meva mare = my mother
• el meu pare = my father
• el meu llibre = my book

This is different from English, which does not use the before my.

Because meva has to agree with mare, which is feminine singular.

The possessive changes like this:

• meu = masculine singular
• meva = feminine singular
• meus = masculine plural
• meves = feminine plural

So:

• la meva mare = my mother
• el meu pare = my father

Vol is the 3rd person singular form of voler, meaning to want.

So:

• vol = he/she wants
• parlar = to speak / to talk

Together, vol parlar means wants to speak.

Catalan, like English, often uses a conjugated verb plus an infinitive:

• vull parlar = I want to speak
• vol parlar = she wants to speak
• volem parlar = we want to speak

Because parlar amb algú means to speak with someone or to talk to someone.

So:

• parlar amb la metgessa = to speak with the doctor

This is a very common pattern in Catalan. The preposition amb usually means with.

Metgessa is the feminine form of metge, meaning doctor.

• el metge = the male doctor
• la metgessa = the female doctor

So in this sentence, the doctor is female.

A learner may also see doctora, but metgessa is the usual word for a medical doctor.

Because perquè as one word means because.

• perquè = because
• per què = why / for what

So in this sentence:

• perquè està malalta = because she is ill

This is a very common spelling distinction in Catalan and worth learning early.

Catalan usually uses estar with conditions or states such as being ill.

So:

• està malalta = she is ill

Using ser here would sound unnatural in standard Catalan.

This is similar to a common Catalan pattern:

• estar cansat / cansada = to be tired
• estar malalt / malalta = to be ill

Because the adjective has to agree with the person it describes.

• malalt = ill, masculine singular
• malalta = ill, feminine singular
• malalts = ill, masculine plural
• malaltes = ill, feminine plural

Since the person referred to here is feminine singular, Catalan uses malalta.

Grammatically, the sentence is ambiguous.

Both la meva mare and la metgessa are feminine singular, so està malalta could refer to either one unless the context makes it clear.

If you want to make it clearer, you can rewrite it. For example:

• La meva mare, que està malalta, vol parlar amb la metgessa.
  = My mother, who is ill, wants to speak with the doctor.

• La meva mare vol parlar amb la metgessa, que està malalta.
  = My mother wants to speak with the doctor, who is ill.

So even though the original sentence is possible, real context matters.

Because Catalan often leaves out subject pronouns when they are understood from the verb or the context.

So Catalan commonly says:

• està malalta
  instead of
• ella està malalta

This is called subject omission, and it is very normal in Catalan.

However, adding ella is possible if you want emphasis or contrast. In this sentence, though, adding ella would not solve the ambiguity, because ella could still refer to either the mother or the doctor.

Yes. This is a very normal structure:

• La meva mare = subject
• vol parlar = verb phrase
• amb la metgessa = prepositional phrase
• perquè està malalta = reason clause

So the sentence follows a straightforward pattern:

subject + verb + complement + reason

That makes it a good example of natural everyday Catalan.