Relative Clauses With ont

Level 3

Ont means where: l'ostal ont demòri.

How It Works

Place	Example
l'ostal	L'ostal ont demòri es pichòt.
la vila	Tolosa es la vila ont trabalhi.
l'escòla	L'escòla ont Marta trabalha es pròche.
la vila (from)	La vila d'ont venèm es pichòta.

This is the same word as the question word ont, where. In a question it asks Ont es?. After a noun it links a clause.

The relative ont is for places. For people and things, use que.

English often leaves out the word and ends the clause with a preposition: the house I live in. Occitan puts ont before the verb.

L'ostal ont demòri es pichòt.
The house where I live is small.
Ont links ostal to demòri.
Tolosa es la vila ont trabalhi.
Toulouse is the city where I work.
Ont follows the noun vila.
L'escòla ont Marta trabalha es pròche.
The school where Marta works is near.
The subject Marta comes after ont.
Albi es la vila ont soi nascut.
Albi is the town where I was born.
Ont works with the compound past too.
La vila d'ont venèm es pichòta.
The town we come from is small.
D'ont means from where.

Leaving out ont, as English does.
L'ostal demòri es pichòt.
L'ostal ont demòri es pichòt.
Occitan needs ont to link the place and the clause.

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Relative Clauses With ontLevel 3

Relative ont is a relative clause about a place, so que relatiu and ont come first.

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