Catalan for English speakers
English isn't a Romance language, but it borrowed thousands of words from French and Latin: of the 2,264 everyday words in Cognata, 1,072 have a cognate between English and Catalan. Start from those, and keep the false friends in sight.
Sets your pairing to English → Catalan and opens the cognates.
- share a source
- 47%
- distant cognates
- 4%
- to learn fresh
- 49%
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Words you already know
Everyday words whose English and Catalan forms come from the same source.
False friends to watch
constipat (Catalan) means “having a cold, stuffed up” · constipated (English) means “unable to empty the bowels”
Both from Latin CONSTĪPĀRE 'to press together'. Catalan, like Spanish constipado, blocks the nose: estic constipat 'I've got a cold'; constipació is the cold itself.
Words to learn fresh
Common words where Catalan went its own way.