Després de descansar a casa, la meva filla torna a respirar bé i no està refredada.

In standard Catalan, possessives usually go together with a definite article, so la meva filla is the normal form for my daughter.

Some quick patterns:

• el meu pare = my father
• la meva mare = my mother
• els meus amics = my friends
• les meves germanes = my sisters

English does not use an article here, but Catalan usually does.

Després de means after. When Catalan says after doing something, it often uses:

després de + infinitive

So:

• Després de descansar = after resting
• Després de menjar = after eating
• Després de treballar = after working

This is very normal in Catalan and works a lot like after + -ing in English, even though Catalan uses the infinitive form.

A casa is a very common expression meaning at home or to home/at someone’s home, depending on context.

Examples:

• Som a casa = We are at home
• Vaig a casa = I’m going home
• Descansar a casa = to rest at home

If you say a la casa, that usually refers to a specific house as a building, not the general idea of home.

So here a casa is the natural choice.

The structure tornar a + infinitive means to do something again or to resume doing something.

So:

• torna a respirar = breathes again / is able to breathe normally again

More examples:

• Torno a llegir aquest llibre = I’m reading this book again
• Va tornar a parlar = He/She spoke again
• Hem tornat a començar = We started again

In this sentence, it suggests that the daughter was not breathing well before, but now she is again.

Because the full verbal structure is:

tornar a + infinitive

That a is required with this meaning.

Compare:

• torna a dormir = sleeps again
• torno a fer-ho = I do it again
• vam tornar a veure-la = we saw her again

So torna a respirar is not returns to breathe word-for-word in English; it is the Catalan way of saying breathes again.

Bé is an adverb, meaning well. It modifies the verb respirar.

• respirar bé = to breathe well

Bo / bona is an adjective, meaning good, and it describes nouns:

• un bon metge = a good doctor
• una bona idea = a good idea

So here you need the adverb bé, because it describes how she breathes.

Catalan often uses estar for temporary states or conditions, including many health conditions.

So:

• està refredada = she has a cold / she is congested / she is suffering from a cold

Using ser here would sound wrong in standard usage because being sick is treated as a state, not an essential characteristic.

This is similar to other cases:

• està malalta = she is ill
• està cansada = she is tired
• està bé = she is fine

Because it agrees with la meva filla, which is feminine singular.

Agreement pattern:

• refredat = masculine singular
• refredada = feminine singular
• refredats = masculine plural
• refredades = feminine plural

So if the subject were el meu fill, you would say:

• El meu fill està refredat

But with la meva filla:

• La meva filla està refredada

Yes. Both are possible, but they are slightly different in structure:

• té un refredat = she has a cold
• està refredada = she is suffering from a cold / she is congested / she has a cold

Both are common. In everyday speech, estar refredat/refredada is very natural.

Catalan often leaves out subject pronouns because the verb ending already shows the person.

Here:

• torna already tells you it is he/she/it
• està also tells you it is he/she/it

Since la meva filla is already stated, adding ella would usually be unnecessary unless you want emphasis or contrast.

So Catalan prefers:

• la meva filla torna... i no està...

rather than:

• la meva filla, ella torna... i ella no està...

Yes. Després de descansar a casa is an introductory time expression, and Catalan can move it.

For example:

• Després de descansar a casa, la meva filla torna a respirar bé...
• La meva filla torna a respirar bé després de descansar a casa...

Both are possible.

Putting it at the beginning gives the time/background first, which is very natural in narration.

It is adding a second coordinated statement with i = and:

• torna a respirar bé
• no està refredada

So the sentence gives two linked ideas about the daughter’s condition after resting.

Catalan does this very much like English:

• ...and she isn’t sick with a cold
• ...and she’s not congested / she doesn’t have a cold

The second part is negative because of no, which normally goes before the verb:

• no està
• no menja
• no dorm

Catalan has agreement in several places.

With filla (feminine singular), you get:

• la meva filla
• refredada

If the noun changed, the forms would change too:

• el meu fill està refredat
• les meves filles estan refredades
• els meus fills estan refredats

So when learning Catalan, it helps to notice that articles, possessives, adjectives, and sometimes participle-like forms often match the noun in gender and number.