en çò de
At Someone's Place
En çò de + person: at or to someone's place.
How It Works
En çò de stands before a person or a trade. It means at or to that person's home, shop or office: en çò de Joan, en çò del fornièr. The usual rules for de apply: del before lo, and d' before a vowel (en çò d'Amir).
The same phrase says where you go and where you are: Vau en çò de Joan and Soi en çò de Joan.
For we and you, Occitan uses a possessive instead of de and a pronoun: en çò nòstre (at our place), en çò vòstre (at your place). For he, she and they, de takes a stressed pronoun: en çò d'el, en çò d'eles.
You will see other spellings of the same phrase. Lagarde writes encò de for going to a place and ençò de for being there, but writers use ençò de for both. Laus lists en çò de, en cò de and a çò de. They all mean the same thing, and none is wrong. This course writes en çò de, the form most writers use.
Examples (5)
- Vau en çò de Joan.
I am going to Joan's.
En çò de goes before the person.
- Anam en çò del fornièr.
We are going to the baker's.
De + lo becomes del.
- Soi en çò de ma maire.
I am at my mother's.
The same phrase says where you are.
- Dimenge manjam en çò d'Amir.
On Sunday we eat at Amir's.
De becomes d' before a vowel.
- Venètz en çò nòstre dimenge?
Are you coming to our place on Sunday?
For we, the possessive nòstre follows en çò.
Common Mistakes
Using the French chez.
Vau chez Joan.Vau en çò de Joan.Chez is French. Occitan says en çò de.
Putting de before nosautres or vosautres.
Venètz en çò de nosautres?Venètz en çò nòstre?For we and you, Occitan uses the possessive: en çò nòstre, en çò vòstre. Laus gives en çò nòstre for chez nous, and en çò de nosautres is not found in print.
How It Connects
Learn This First
En çò de starts with en and is often followed by del, so en and del come first.
Related Patterns
- deThe Preposition De
De is part of the phrase and follows the usual rules.
Level 1 - nòstre, nòstra, nòstres, nòstrasOur
For we, the possessive follows: en çò nòstre.
Level 2 - Stressed Pronouns after a Preposition
For he, she and they, de takes a stressed pronoun: en çò d'el.
Level 3 - aThe Preposition a
A goes before a place, as in a Tolosa. En çò de goes before a person.
Level 1
Words in This Pattern
Practice en çò de in Bubblegum
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