El jugador mira la jugada i la puntuació.

These are the definite articles, meaning the.

Catalan nouns have grammatical gender:

• el jugador = masculine singular
• la jugada = feminine singular
• la puntuació = feminine singular

So the article has to match the noun’s gender and number.

Yes. Jugador is the masculine singular form.

The feminine singular is jugadora.

So:

• el jugador = the male player
• la jugadora = the female player

The plural forms are:

• els jugadors
• les jugadores

A useful pattern is that many nouns ending in -dor form the feminine with -dora.

Mira is the third-person singular present indicative of mirar.

So here it means:

• he/she looks
• or more generally the player looks

Because the subject is el jugador, the meaning is clearly present tense.

One small extra note: mira can also be the tu imperative, meaning look!, but not in this sentence.

Because Catalan mirar usually takes a direct object.

So Catalan says:

• mirar la jugada
• mirar la puntuació

where English usually says:

• look at the play
• look at the score

This is very common and important: Catalan often uses mirar + object directly, without an extra preposition.

Yes. They both come from the verb jugar, meaning to play.

• jugador = player, someone who plays
• jugada = play, move, a play made in a game or sport

So they are related, but they mean different things:

• jugador is a person
• jugada is an action / move / play

In Catalan, it is normal to repeat the article before each noun in a list like this:

• la jugada i la puntuació

This is the most natural standard structure.

English can sometimes avoid repetition, but Catalan commonly keeps it. Repeating the article makes the sentence clear and balanced.

I means and.

Unlike Spanish y, Catalan i does not normally change before vowels.

So Catalan keeps i in phrases like:

• pa i aigua
• jugada i puntuació

That makes it simple: i stays i.

In many varieties of Catalan, j before a, o, u is pronounced like the sound of s in measure.

So jugador and jugada often begin with a sound like zh.

A rough guide:

• jugador ≈ zhoo-guh-DOR
• jugada ≈ zhoo-GAH-duh

But pronunciation varies by dialect, and some speakers use a harder sound closer to English j.

The word is stressed on the last syllable:

• pun-tu-a-ci-Ó

In some accents, the middle vowels are reduced, but the important point for a learner is that the stress falls on -ó.

The accent mark on ó shows that:

• this syllable is stressed
• the vowel is ó

The ending -ció is very common in Catalan, like in:

• informació
• situació
• direcció

Yes. This is a very normal subject + verb + object sentence:

• El jugador = subject
• mira = verb
• la jugada i la puntuació = object

Catalan also often allows the subject to be omitted when it is clear from context. So you could also see:

• Mira la jugada i la puntuació

That could mean He/She looks at the play and the score, depending on context.

But including el jugador is perfectly natural, especially when you want to be explicit about who is doing the action.