LingoflyUncountables: l'oli, la farina, la mel
Oil, flour, honey, sugar — no plural: at the shop they are not counted but measured. One formula: measure + de — un quilo de farina, una llesca de pa, un got de llet, una tassa de te. For example: “Compra un quilo de farina, si us plau” — Buy a kilogram of flour, please. A rule from the Catalan course: worked out on examples, not memorized as a wording.
How it works
Oil, flour, honey, sugar — no plural: at the shop they are not counted but measured. One formula: measure + de — un quilo de farina, una llesca de pa, un got de llet, una tassa de te.
The same device in "una ampolla d'aigua" — a bottle of water: the water is one, the bottles are many.
By example
- Compra un quilo de farina, si us plauBuy a kilogram of flour, please
- Tallo una llesca de paI cut a slice of bread
- Vull una tassa de te amb melI want a cup of tea with honey
How the rule settles in your head
A rule is not memorized from an explanation. It is memorized from an attempt to use it and a mistake — that is why the app delivers it mixed in with words, not as a separate lesson: it resurfaces exactly where you forgot it.
Frequently asked
Uncountables: how does it work in Catalan?
Oil, flour, honey, sugar — no plural: at the shop they are not counted but measured. One formula: measure + de — un quilo de farina, una llesca de pa, un got de llet, una tassa de te.
What does it look like in a Catalan example sentence?
“Compra un quilo de farina, si us plau” — Buy a kilogram of flour, please. A rule is easier to test on sentences like this than to memorize as a wording: what surfaces in conversation is the sentence.