1. Interrogator
>
quan (=when)
>
a quina hora (=what time)
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quan arribeu?
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when are you arriving?
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i quan van trucar?
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and when did they call?
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a quina hora us lleveu?
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what time do you get up?
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2. Adverbs
> ara (=now)
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Ara no tinc temps de parlar
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Now I don’t have time to
talk
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Ara que hi penso
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Now that I think it
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> abans
>< després, més tard (=before,
afterwards, later)
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Abans jo era fumador
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In the past I used to smoke
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Ja us veuré després
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I’ll see you later
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> ja
(=already).
This is besides a emphatic particle used with no temporal value.
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Ja s’ha acabat el curs
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The course is already over
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Ja t’ho diran ells (no time value)
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They’ll let you know
themselves
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> llavors,
aleshores (=then), en aquest/aquell moment (=in this/that moment)
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i aleshores m’ho va confessar
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and then (s)he confessed it
to me
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en aquell moment no li vaig saber respondre
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I couldn’t give him/her an
answer in that moment
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These
two adverbs also work as discourse markers, which are commonly used to
introduced new sentences within the paragraph, equivalent to English: then,
thus, therefore.
> ahir,
avui, demà (=yesterday, today, tomorrow)
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ahir tenia mal de cap
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yesterday I had a headache
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avui no vull fer res
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today I don’t feel like
doing anything
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anireu al cinema demà?
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will you go to the cinema tomorrow?
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> aviat/d’hora
>< tard
(=soon / early, late)
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ho comprendràs aviat
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you’ll understand it soon
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sempre em llevo molt d’hora
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I always get up early
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encara no és massa tard
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it’s not too late yet
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3. Linkers
(prepositions and conjunctions) expressing time
>
a (=in, at, on).
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a les sis
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at six
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al vespre
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in the evening
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a l’estiu
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in the summer
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al març
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in March
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>
de (=at)
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de dia
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at daytime
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de nit
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at night-time
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>
durant (=during)
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durant la conferència no l’he vist
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I haven’t seen him during
the lecture
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durant aquestes jornades
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throughout these seasons
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>
des (de) (=since).
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des de l’any passat
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since last year
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des que et conec
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since I know you
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en (=in, on, within).
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ho ha fet en dues hores
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(s)he’s done it in two hours
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sóc en vaga
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I’m on strike
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no me l’he trobat en tot l’any
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I haven’t met him during the whole year
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>
fa (=ago),
(des) de fa (=for), des que (=since)
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l’he vista fa tres hores
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I’ve seen her three hours
ago
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no l’he vista des de fa tres hores
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I haven’t seen her for three
hours
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no l’he vista des que va arribar
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I haven’t seen her since she got in
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>
mentre (=while)
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mentre jo cuino, tu fes neta/neteja la taula
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while I cook, you clean the
table
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mentre tingui ús de la raó, no ho permetré
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while I stay on my feet, I
won’t allow it
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4. Most previous adverbs may also work like
prepositions. Some of them become compound preposition when followed by
preposition de, though some of them may undergo certain
morphological transformations:
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davant casa meva
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in front of my house
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after two hours
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5. The gerund often has a time value. A similar
structured is achieved with en + infinitive (en
arribar = (when) arriving)
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tornant cap a casa, vam veure un accident
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while coming back home, we
witnessed an accident
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en arribar a casa, només vull pau
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when arriving home, I just
want calm
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