Adjective: gran
Hyphenation:
| Singular m. | gran |
| Singular f. | gran |
Sample Sentences
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la gent gran : aged people, elders
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els grans : (only generic masculine plural, as said by children) the adults
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-Hola, mare! Qui soc?
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-En Joan.
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-No, no. No soc en Joan. Soc el teu fill gran. Com es diu el teu fill gran?
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-Daniel -encara mira a terra. ("Hello, mother! Who am I?"
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"Joan."
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"No, no. I'm not Joan. I'm your oldest son. What's the name of your oldest son?
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"Daniel." She's still looking at the ground.) [2020 February 10, Daniel Bonaventura, “"Necessito abraçades i petons" ["I need hugs and kisses"]”, in Ara:]
Adjectives inflected like gran
renovable,
innumerable,
serial,
servil,
sexual,
sedant,
semita,
busca-raons,
satisfaent,
deficient,
soviet,
somali,
social,
activista,
monolingüe,
simple,
silent,
humanoide,
miserable,
de nyigui-nyogui, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
Inherited from Old Catalan gran, grant, grand, from Latin grandis, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ghrewə- (“to fell, put down, fall in”). See: Latin Adjectives '
grandis'.
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