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Catalan grammar, the morphology and syntax of the Catalan language, is similar to the grammar of most other Romance languages. Catalan is a relatively synthetic, fusional language. The grammar of Catalan is similar to other Romance languages. Features include: *Use of definite and indefinite articles. *Nouns, adjectives, pronouns, and articles are inflected for gender (masculine and feminine), and number (singular and plural). Except pronouns, they are not inflected for case. *Highly inflected verbs, for person, number, tense, aspect, and mood (including a subjunctive). *Lack of modal auxiliaries. *Word order is freer than English. Some distinctive features of Catalan among Romance languages include the general lack of masculine markers (like Italian ''-o''), a trait shared with French and Occitan; and the fact that the preterite tense of verbs is usually formed with a periphrasis consisting of the verb "to go" plus infinitive. ==Articles== Catalan has two types of article, definite and indefinite. They are declined for gender and number, and must agree with the noun they qualify. As with other Romance languages, Catalan articles are subject to complex elision and contraction processes. The inflection of articles is complex, especially because of the high number of elisions, but is similar to the neighboring languages. Catalan has more contractions of preposition + article than Spanish, like ''dels'' ("of + the ()"), but not as many as Italian (which has ''sul'', ''col'', ''nel'', etc.). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Catalan grammar」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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