Il catalano per chi parla portoghese
Sai già più catalano di quanto pensi. Delle 2.264 parole quotidiane di Cognata, 1.626 hanno un’affine in portoghese: la stessa parola, rimodellata da secoli di parlato. Parti da quelle, impara i cambiamenti regolari che legano le due lingue e tieni d’occhio i falsi amici.
Imposta la combinazione su portoghese → catalano e apre le parole affini.
- hanno la stessa origine
- 72%
- ereditate da entrambe
- 25%
- da imparare da zero
- 28%
2.264 parole a confronto
Parole che conosci già
Parole quotidiane le cui forme in portoghese e in catalano vengono dalla stessa origine.
Le leggi fonetiche tra le due
Cambiamenti regolari che trasformano una parola in portoghese nella sua affine in catalano: imparane uno e vale per centinaia di parole.
- Stressed short E breaks into iee [ɛ] (no diphthong)e [ɛ] (no diphthong); i next to a palatal (llit)PETRAMpedrapedra
- Stressed short O breaks into ue / uo / euo [ɔ] (no diphthong)o [ɔ] (no diphthong)NOVUMnovonou
- French stressed free A becomes ea (kept)a (kept)MAREmarmar
- French fronts long U to [y]u [u] (kept)u [u] (kept)LŪNAMlualluna
- AU becomes oou (said [o] in Brazil)oAURUMouroor
- French vowel + nasal becomes a nasal vowelnasal vowel or diphthong too (pão, bom, fim)oral vowel; final n after the stress lost (pa, vi)PĀNEMpãopa
- Spanish initial F- becomes h- (silent)f- keptf- keptFĪLIUM (fr. from nom. FĪLIUS)filhofill
- Voiceless stops between vowels softenb (v) d gb (v) d g; p t c again at the end of a word (amic, agut)VĪTAMvidavida
- C before E and Is (c, ç); z [z] between vowelss (c, ç); between vowels lost, or u at the end (veí, deu)CAELUMcéucel
- French CA becomes chaca keptca keptCABALLUMcavalocavall
- Initial I- (J-) and G before E, Ij, g [ʒ]j, g [ʒ]IOCUMjogojoc
- B and V merge in Spanishv kept; B between vowels → vmerged as in Spanish (Central Catalan); v kept in Balearic and parts of ValenciaVĪNUMvinhovi
- Germanic W- becomes gu- / g-gu- ([gw] before a, o; [g] before e, i)gu- ([gw] before a, o; [g] before e, i)Germanic *WERRAguerraguerra
- L before a consonant becomes ual → ou, oi in some words (outro, foice); written l elsewhere, said [w] in Brazill kept (altre, falç)ALTERUMoutroaltre
- CTit (i + t)it, t (the i absorbed by the vowel: nit, fet)NOCTEMnoitenit
- L + yodlh [ʎ]ll [ʎ]FOLIAMfolhafulla
- C'L inside a wordlh [ʎ]ll [ʎ]OCULUMolhoull
- CL-, PL-, FL- at the start of a wordch- [ʃ]cl- pl- fl- (kept)CLĀVEMchaveclau
- NN, GN and N + yodnh [ɲ]; NN → nny [ɲ], also from NN (any)ANNUManoany
- S + consonant at the start of a wordes-es-STELLAMestrelaestrella
- French loses S before a consonant (^)s kepts keptFESTAMfestafesta
- Italian assimilates clusterssimplified: pt → t, mn → n; x → ss or ix [jʃ]simplified: pt → t, mn → n; x → ix [ʃ]SEPTEMseteset
- Final vowels-o, -a, -e kept (said [u], [ɐ], [i]); -e dropped after a single r, l, s, z, ndropped except -a (said [ə]); -e kept after clustersLUPUMlobollop
- Plurals: -s or -i-s, -es (from the accusative)-s, -es (from the accusative)LUPŌS (acc.) / LUPĪ (nom.)lobosllops
- -TĀTEM: -dad, -té, -tà-dade (-tade after a consonant)-tatCĪVITĀTEMcidadeciutat
- -TIŌNEM: learned -ción, inherited -zón-ção (learned and inherited alike: nação, razão)-ció (learned); inherited -ó (raó, tió)RATIŌNEMrazãoraó
- -ĀRIUM: -ero, -ier, -aio-eiro, -eira-er, -eraCABALLĀRIUMcavaleirocavaller
- Adverbs in -mente / -ment-mente-mentCLĀRĀ MENTEclaramenteclarament
- Single L between vowels: lost in Portuguese, r in Romanianlost (céu, fio, cor)l keptFĪLUMfiofil
- Portuguese loses single N between vowelslost, nasalizing the vowel (lã, mão); later often oral (lua, boa) or nh (vinho)n kept; lost where it became final (mà; see final-n)LĀNAMlãllana
- Romanian turns velars into labialsit, x [ʃ], nh; qu, guit/t, ix [ʃ], ny; qu, guOCTŌoitovuit
- Romanian T, D, S before i become ț, z, șkept; t, d said [tʃ], [dʒ] before i in Brazil (dia)t, d, s keptDĪCEREdizerdir
- Catalan drops -n at the end of a wordnasal vowel or diphthong (pão, vinho, bom)lost (pa, vi); back in the plural (pans, vins)PĀNEMpãopa
Falsi amici da tenere d’occhio
Ancora nessuna trappola classica tra queste due in Cognata, ma ogni pagina di parola segnala quelle che conosce.
Parole da imparare da zero
Parole comuni in cui il catalano ha fatto di testa sua.