Editing Catalan language (section)

== Sample text ==
Selected text{{sfn|Swan|2001|p=112}} from [[Manuel de Pedrolo]]'s 1970 novel {{lang|ca|Un amor fora ciutat}} ("A love affair outside the city").
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| {{lang|ca|Tenia prop de divuit anys quan vaig conèixer}} || I was having close to eighteen years, when I go {{IPA|[past auxiliary]}} know (=I met) || I was about eighteen years old when I met
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| {{lang|ca|en Raül, a l'estació de [[Manresa]].}} || the Raül, at the station of (=in) Manresa.  || Raül, at [[Manresa]] railway station.
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| {{lang|ca|El meu pare havia mort, inesperadament i encara jove,}} || The my father had died, unexpectedly and still young, || My father had died, unexpectedly and still young,
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| {{lang|ca|un parell d'anys abans, i d'aquells temps}} || a couple of years before, and of those times  || a couple of years before; and from that time
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| {{lang|ca|conservo un record de punyent solitud.}} || I keep a memory of acute loneliness  || I still harbor memories of great loneliness.
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| {{lang|ca|Les meves relacions amb la mare}} || The my relations with the mother || My relationship with my mother
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| {{lang|ca|no havien pas millorat, tot el contrari,}} ||  not had at all improved, all the contrary,  || had not improved; quite the contrary,
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| {{lang|ca|potser fins i tot empitjoraven}} || perhaps even they were worsening  || and arguably it was getting even worse
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| {{lang|ca|a mesura que em feia gran.}} || at step that (=in proportion as) myself I was making big (=I was growing up). || as I grew up.
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| {{lang|ca|No existia, no existí mai entre nosaltres, }} ||  Not it was existing, not it existed never between us, || There did not exist, at no point had there ever existed between us
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| {{lang|ca|una comunitat d'interessos, d'afeccions.}} ||  a community of interests, of affections.  || shared interests or affection.
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| {{lang|ca|Cal creure que cercava... una persona}} || It is necessary to believe that I was seeking... a person  || I guess I was seeking... a person
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| {{lang|ca|en qui centrar la meva vida afectiva.}} || in whom to center the my life affective. || in whom I could center my emotional life.
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