Optimot

Ask a question about Catalan usage and get the official answer.

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What it actually is

The Generalitat's language consultation service: a combined search across dictionaries, grammars and a large bank of resolved usage questions. When you are unsure whether a construction is correct Catalan or a Spanish calque — the commonest error for anyone who learned Spanish first — this is where the answer is.

What it covers

  • Writing
  • Grammar
  • Vocabulary

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