Es catalán...

[laineyamber]

I'm a beginner at Spanish, and I've come to a point in my text book that has me confused :thinking:

I understand that "Es de" translates to "He's from", but in this extract where a girl is describing a boy she's met she seems to use similar words twice.

Here is the extract:

"...se llama Eduardo y es catalán. Es de Barcelona."

At the first read I thought this translated to "His name is Eduardo and he's Catalonian. He's from Barcelona."

But underneath the extract is a vocabulary translation that says:

"catalán = from Catalonia"

Is there more than one use for the word "catalán"? Was my translation correct or incorrect?

Thank you all!

[chileno]

Catalán = Catalonian

Cataluña = Catalonia

[pjt33]

For what it's worth, Catalan is used at least 10 times as frequently as Catalonian in both COCA and BNC.

[Rusty]

There's more than one use for the word, yes.
It's a noun, both masculine and feminine in gender, used to designate a person who is from Catalonia. It's also the noun, masculine in gender, used to designate the Catalan language. And it can be used as an adjective meaning 'from Catalonia'.

[laineyamber]

Thank you very much everybody!