Catalan grammar
Morphology and syntax of Catalan / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Catalan grammar, the morphology and syntax of the Catalan language, is similar to the grammar of most other Romance languages. Catalan is a relatively synthetic, fusional language. Features include:
- Use of definite and indefinite articles.[1]
- Nouns, adjectives, pronouns and articles are inflected for gender (masculine and feminine) and number (singular and plural). The numerals 'one', 'two' and the numeral 'hundred' from two-hundred onwards are also inflected for gender.
- Highly inflected verbs, for person, number, tense, aspect, and mood (including a subjunctive).[1]
- Word order is freer than in English.[1]
Some distinctive features of Catalan among Romance languages include the general lack of masculine markers (like Italian -o), a trait shared with French and Occitan; and the fact that the remote preterite tense of verbs is usually formed with a periphrasis consisting of the verb "to go" plus infinitive.