1. Interrogator
>
On (=where)
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on vius?
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where do you live?
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cap a on vas?
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where are going?
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d’on véns?
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where
do you come from?
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2. Adverbs
> ací >< allí/allà
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ací no hi ha ningú
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there’s nobody here
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anem cap allà
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let’s go there
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i allí no hi tenim
família
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we have
no family there
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There is one more
adverb, aquí, which is often mistaken with ací. Actually in some geolects
the three-degree deixis distinction is kept: ací, aquí, allí/allà.
3. Prepositions
expressing time
> a (=in, at).
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vaig a casa
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I’m going home
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no m’agrada anar
amb cotxe a la platja
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I don’t like driving to the beach
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hem arribat a un
lloc fantàstic
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we’ve
arrived at a wonderful place
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> cap a (= to, towards, into).
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gira cap a la dreta
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turn right
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anaven cap a la
frontera
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they were driving into the border
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> de (=of, from)
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vinc de Terrassa
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I’m coming from Terrassa
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el cotxe ha sortit de
Girona fa una hora
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the car left from Girona an hour ago
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> (des) de (= from)
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(des) de Barcelona
a València hi ha tres hores de cotxe
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it takes three hours driving from Barcelona to Valencia
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we’re coming from the seaside
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> per (=through, along)
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la carretera no
passa per la ciutat
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the road doesn’t go along the town
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passem pel túnel
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let’s go through the tunnel
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