Catalan Grammar

The Catalan grammar allows you to manipulate the vocabulary to obtain multiple forms of a word. The grammatical rules below are the most important in Catalan and help connect words or shape the structure. We start with the prepositions:

And: i	Under: sota
Before: abans	After: després de
Inside: dins/dintre	Outside: fora
With: amb	But: però
For: per	From: de
To: a	In: a/en

Questions and Adverbs

To ask questions, use the following:

What?: què?	Who?: que?
How?: com?	Why?: per què?
Where?: on?

Some of the most important time adverbs:

Never: mai	Rarely: poques vegades
Sometimes: de vegades	Usually: habitualment
Always: sempre	Very: molt

Most commonly used pronouns in Catalan:

I: jo	You: tu/vostè/vosaltres
He: ell	She: ella
We: nosaltres	They: ells

To express the possession of something [possessive form]:

My: el(s) meu(s)/la (les) meva (meves)	Your: el(s) teu(s)/la (les) teva (teves)
His: el(s)seu(s)/ la (les) seva (seves)	Her: el(s) seu(s)/la (les)seva (seves)
Our: el (la) nostre/els (les) nostres	Their: el(s) seu(s)/la (les)seva (seves)

Grammar in a sentence

Some random verbs to show how it's being used:

I speak English: parlo anglès

You speak French: vostè parla francès

He speaks German: parla alemany

She speaks Italian: parla italià

I visited France: he visitat frança

I will drink milk: prendré llet

Some extra grammatical structures:

I understand you: t'entenc

I don't understand you: no t'entenc

I don't speak French: no parlo francès

This is my house: aquesta és la meva casa

That restaurant is far: aquest restaurant és molt lluny

No problem: no hi ha cap problema

The above Catalan grammar can provide tools to use in coordination with the Catalan vocabulary to obtain some popular Catalan phrases.