Breakdown of La reunió acabarà aviat i després tornarem a casa.
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and
la casa
the home
aviat
soon
després
afterwards
Questions & Answers about La reunió acabarà aviat i després tornarem a casa.
Why is it la reunió and not el reunió?
Because reunió is a feminine noun in Catalan, so it takes the feminine singular article la.
- la reunió = the meeting
- el is the masculine singular article, so it would be wrong here.
As in many Romance languages, grammatical gender is something you often just have to learn with the noun. A useful habit is to memorize nouns together with their article: la reunió, not just reunió.
How do I pronounce reunió, and what does the accent mean?
Reunió is pronounced roughly reh-oo-nee-OH, with the stress on the last syllable.
The written accent in -ó tells you that:
- the syllable is stressed
- the vowel is an o sound with marked stress
So the stress is not RE-u-nio or re-U-nio, but reu-ni-Ó.
This is very common in Catalan: accents often show where the stress goes.
Why is it acabarà? What tense is that?