il-

Etymology
From, assimilated form of before.

Usage notes

 * Normally this prefix will combine with the root to make a word that uses the . For example, and  combine to form . but for some words, the use of the  will provide an alternative form or the preferred form. Thus  and  can combine to form either  or, while  and  combine only as  in Standard Catalan, although  is a common, but still illiterate, misspelling.

Prefix

 * we
 * we
 * we
 * we

Etymology
From.

Prefix

 * 1) Variant of  used before l

Etymology 1
From, from , from (compare 🇨🇬).

Prefix

 * 1) multiple, poly-, multi-
 * 2) miscellaneous
 * 3) sundry
 * 4) composite
 * 1) composite

Etymology
Assimilated form of, before.

Etymology
Assimilated form of, before.

Etymology
From.

Article

 * 1) the

Usage notes

 * The article (in all forms) connects to the following word with a hyphen:


 * Before an initial vowel, including before the vocalic letters and, the  of the article is always dropped. This does not happen before  , however:
 * ; ; but:.


 * Before an initial consonant cluster beginning with a nasal or liquid, i.e. the letters, , , + another consonant, an  is prefixed to the word and the article thus becomes :


 * The same also usually happens before an initial, , + an obstruent, i.e. a consonant other than , , , , , . This rule is somewhat similar to the Italian impure s, but it is applied with variation:
 * ; — less often also:.


 * Otherwise, before coronal consonants except, the of the article is generally assimilated. This means that before the letters , , , , , , , , , the article will have the according forms , , , , , , , , :
 * ; ; but:.


 * Apart from and the cases where an  is prefixed, there is another exception to this assimilation, namely that ad-hoc nominalisations of particles and the like are usually not assimilated:


 * In the context of a sentence, the of the article is not only dropped when the following word begins with a vowel, but also when the preceding word ends with a vowel:


 * Hence, even the assimilated forms of the article can be reduced to, , , , , , , , :


 * In the same case, the article is spelt as one word with the prepositions, , , , , , and :