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Porta una goma i un llapis a classe, perquè jo avui no en tinc cap.
Meaning
Bring an eraser and a pencil to class, because today I do not have any.
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Breakdown of Porta una goma i un llapis a classe, perquè jo avui no en tinc cap.
un
a
tenir
to have
no
not
avui
today
Questions & Answers about Porta una goma i un llapis a classe, perquè jo avui no en tinc cap.
What form is porta here?
Here porta is the informal singular imperative of portar, meaning bring.
So the sentence is speaking to one person in a familiar way:
- Porta... = Bring...
Catalan often leaves out the subject pronoun, so tu porta... would normally just be porta...
A useful note: porta can also be a present-tense form meaning he/she brings or you bring in some contexts, but here the context clearly makes it a command.
Why does the sentence use una goma and un llapis?
Because Catalan nouns have grammatical gender, and the indefinite article must match:
- una goma = an eraser
- un llapis = a pencil
Here:
- goma is feminine
- llapis is masculine
So Catalan uses:
- un for masculine singular nouns
- una for feminine singular nouns
Does goma really mean eraser?