El lloc és aquí.

to be

Breakdown of El lloc és aquí.

• aquí: here
• el lloc: the place

Questions & Answers about El lloc és aquí.

Why is it el lloc and not just lloc?

Catalan often uses the definite article where English might also use the.
El lloc means the place.

• el = the (masculine singular)
• lloc = place

Leaving out el would usually make the phrase feel incomplete in a normal statement like this.

Why is the article el and not la?

Because lloc is a masculine noun in Catalan.

Catalan nouns have grammatical gender:

• el for masculine singular nouns
• la for feminine singular nouns

So:

• el lloc
• not la lloc

This grammatical gender does not necessarily follow English logic, so it usually has to be learned with each noun.

What does és mean here?

És is the third person singular form of the verb ser, which means to be.

So:

• jo soc / sóc = I am
• tu ets = you are
• ell/ella és = he/she is

In El lloc és aquí, és matches , which is singular: .