No recordo l'hora de la reunió.

In Catalan, basic negation is usually made by putting no directly before the verb.

• Recordo = I remember
• No recordo = I don’t remember

So No recordo l'hora de la reunió follows the normal Catalan pattern:

• No
  • verb + rest of the sentence

This is very similar to Spanish, but unlike English, Catalan does not need an extra helping verb like do.

Recordo is the 1st person singular present tense of the verb recordar.

• recordar = to remember
• recordo = I remember

So the ending -o here tells you the subject is I.

A few present-tense forms of recordar:

• recordo = I remember
• recordes = you remember
• recorda = he/she remembers
• recordem = we remember
• recordeu = you all remember
• recorden = they remember

Because Catalan usually shortens la to l' before a word that begins with a vowel or a silent h.

• la
  • hora → l'hora

This is called elision.

Since h in hora is silent, the word behaves as if it began with a vowel sound. That is why you write:

• l'hora
• not la hora

The same thing happens in:

• l'aigua = the water
• l'amiga = the female friend
• l'habitació = the room

Yes. Hora is a feminine noun.

That is why its article is based on la, not el:

• la hora → l'hora after elision

The initial h does not change its gender. It is still feminine, just written with the shortened article.

Here de means something like of.

• l'hora de la reunió = the time of the meeting

Catalan often uses de to connect two nouns, where English might use of or a noun-noun structure.

Examples:

• el final de la pel·lícula = the end of the film
• la porta de casa = the house door / the door of the house
• l'hora de la reunió = the meeting time / the time of the meeting

So de la reunió tells you which time: the time of the meeting.

Because reunió is a feminine singular noun, so its article is la.

• la reunió = the meeting

After de, Catalan does not contract with la:

• de + la = de la

But with the masculine singular article el, Catalan usually does contract:

• de + el = del

Compare:

• l'hora de la reunió = the time of the meeting
• el director del museu = the director of the museum

You would only get de l' if the article were elided before a vowel or silent h:

• de l'escola = of the school
• de l'hotel = of the hotel

Reunió means meeting.

The accent mark in reunió shows that the stress falls on the final syllable:

• re-u-ni-ó

Without the accent, Catalan spelling rules would suggest a different stress pattern. So the accent is important both for pronunciation and correct spelling.

Also, reunió is a feminine noun:

• la reunió

Plural:

• les reunions = the meetings

Yes, but it is a different structure.

Catalan commonly uses both:

• recordar alguna cosa = to remember something
• recordar-se de alguna cosa = to remember something

So:

• No recordo l'hora de la reunió = I don’t remember the time of the meeting
• No me'n recordo, de l'hora de la reunió = I don’t remember the time of the meeting

The sentence you were given uses the simpler transitive pattern:

• recordar + direct object

That is very normal and correct.

Learners often notice the pronominal version because it is common in everyday speech, but for this sentence, No recordo l'hora de la reunió is perfectly natural.

The word order is very normal for Catalan:

• No
  • verb
    • object

So:

• No = not
• recordo = I remember
• l'hora de la reunió = the time of the meeting

Catalan often follows a straightforward order like this in simple statements. You do not need to move words around to make it negative.

You would mainly change the verb form.

Examples:

• No recordes l'hora de la reunió. = You don’t remember the time of the meeting.
• No recorda l'hora de la reunió. = He/She doesn’t remember the time of the meeting.
• No recordem l'hora de la reunió. = We don’t remember the time of the meeting.
• No recorden l'hora de la reunió. = They don’t remember the time of the meeting.

The rest of the sentence can stay the same if the meaning stays the same.

A careful approximation is:

No re-COR-do LO-ra de la re-u-ni-Ó

A few helpful notes:

• recordo is stressed on cor
• l'hora sounds as if the h were not there
• reunió is stressed on the last syllable because of the accent: -ó

So the flow is roughly: No recordo l'hora de la reunió.

If you already know some Spanish or French, remember that Catalan pronunciation is its own system, so it is best not to rely too heavily on either one.