Questions & Answers about La carn que comprem avui té descompte.
Why is it la carn and not el carn?
Because carn is a feminine noun in Catalan, so it takes la in the singular: la carn.
A useful thing to notice is that carn is usually a mass noun, like meat in English. So Catalan normally keeps it in the singular when talking about meat in general:
- la carn = the meat
- m’agrada la carn = I like meat
So both the gender and the singular are normal here.
What does que mean in this sentence?
Here que is a relative pronoun, meaning that, which, or sometimes nothing at all in natural English.
So:
- La carn que comprem avui
= The meat that we buy today = The meat we buy today
In Catalan, que is very commonly used to link a noun to extra information about it. It introduces the clause that describes la carn.
Why is the verb comprem?