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Why is it el contracte and not just contracte?
El is the masculine singular definite article, meaning the.
Catalan usually needs an article here when you are talking about a specific contract: el contracte = the contract.
If you said just contracte on its own, it would usually sound incomplete in a normal sentence. If you meant a contract, you would say un contracte.
Is contracte masculine? How can I tell?
Yes, contracte is masculine, which is why it takes el.
There is not always a simple rule that lets you predict gender perfectly, so gender often has to be learned with the noun. In this case:
- el contracte = the contract
- un contracte = a contract
A good habit is to learn nouns together with their article: el contracte, not just contracte.
What does és mean here?
És is the he/she/it is form of the verb ser.
So:
- jo sóc = I am
- tu ets = you are
- ell/ella és = he/she is
- el contracte és = the contract is
In this sentence, és means .