If you're trying to learn Catalan Feminine which is also called Català, check our courses about genders: Feminine and Masculine... to help you with your Catalan grammar. Try to concentrate on the lesson and notice the pattern that occurs each time the word changes its place. Also don't forget to check the rest of our other lessons listed on Learn Catalan. Enjoy the rest of the lesson!
Learning the Catalan Feminine displayed below is vital to the language. Catalan feminine refers to female qualities attributed specifically to women and girls or things considered feminine. The complement to feminine is masculine.
To form a feminine word from the masculine in Catalan, you simply add (-a) if the word ends in a consonant. But if a word ends in a vowel then you need to remove the vowel before adding the “a”. Here are some examples:
Fill (son) becomes: Filla (daughter), alumne (student masc.) becomes: Alumna (student fem.)
Note that some words cannot change into feminine; instead a whole new word should be used, example: Home (man), Dona (woman).
Here are some examples:
| English Feminine | Catalan Feminine |
|---|---|
| Feminine | Femení |
| he is happy | ell és feliç |
| she is happy | ella és feliç |
| he is American | ell és americà |
| she is American | ella és americana |
| man | home |
| woman | dona |
| father | pare |
| mother | mare |
| brother | germà |
| sister | germana |
| uncle | oncle |
| aunt | tia |
| bull | bou |
| cow | vaca |
| boy | nen |
| girl | noia |
Notice the structure of the Feminine in Catalan.
Below is a list of objects, can you determine whether they're feminine, masculine or plural in Catalan? Memorizing this table will also help you add very useful and important words to your Catalan vocabulary.
| English Vocabulary | Catalan Vocabulary |
|---|---|
| objects | objectes |
| bathroom | bany |
| bed | llit |
| bedroom | dormitori |
| ceiling | sostre |
| chair | cadira |
| clothes | roba |
| coat | abric |
| cup | tassa |
| desk | escriptori |
| dress | vestit |
| floor | pis |
| fork | forquilla |
| furniture | mobles |
| glass | got |
| hat | barret |
| house | casa |
| ink | tinta |
| jacket | jaqueta |
| kitchen | cuina |
| knife | ganivet |
| lamp | llum / làmpada |
| letter | carta |
| map | mapa |
| newspaper | diari |
| notebook | quadern |
| pants | pantalons |
| paper | paper |
| pen | ploma |
| pencil | llapis |
| pharmacy | farmàcia |
| picture | imatge |
| plate | plat |
| refrigerator | nevera / refrigerador |
| restaurant | restaurant |
| roof | teulada |
| room | habitació |
| rug | manta |
| scissors | tisores |
| shampoo | xampú |
| shirt | camisa |
| shoes | sabates |
| soap | sabó |
| socks | mitjons |
| spoon | cullera |
| table | taula |
| toilet | bany / lavabo |
| toothbrush | raspall de dents |
| toothpaste | pasta de dents |
| towel | tovallola |
| umbrella | paraigua |
| underwear | roba interior |
| wall | paret |
| wallet | cartera |
| window | finestra |
| telephone | telèfon |
Feminine and Masculine have a very important role in Catalan. Once you're done with the Català Feminine, you might want to check the rest of our Catalan lessons here: Learn Catalan. Don't forget to bookmark this page.
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