La meva mare també vol anar al museu dissabte.

My mother also wants to go to the museum on Saturday.

Breakdown of La meva mare també vol anar al museu dissabte.

• voler: to want
• la mare: the mother
• a: to
• meu: my

Questions & Answers about La meva mare també vol anar al museu dissabte.

Why is it la meva mare and not just meva mare?

In Catalan, possessives are very often used with the definite article:

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

This is different from English, where you normally say just my mother without the.

A useful pattern is:

• el meu / la meva = my
• el teu / la teva = your
• el seu / la seva = his/her/your(formal)

So la meva mare is the normal Catalan way to say my mother.

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Why is it meva and not meu?

Because the possessive has to agree with the noun it describes.

Here, mare is a feminine singular noun, so you use meva:

• la meva mare = my mother
• la meva amiga = my friend (female noun)

Compare with masculine singular:

• el meu pare = my father
• el meu amic = my friend (male noun)

So:

• meu = masculine singular
• meva = feminine singular

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