escriuen

Escriuen is the third-person plural present indicative form of the Catalan verb escriure, meaning “they write.” It is used with a plural subject to indicate that multiple people perform the action of writing in the present tense.

Morphology and conjugation follow the standard present-tense pattern of escriure. The full present indicative paradigm is escric, escrius, escriu, escrivim, escriviu, escriuen. The form escriuen is built from the stem escriu- plus the plural ending -en, marking the third person plural.

Etymology and cognates: Escriure derives from Latin scribere, passing through Old Catalan as escriure. Related verbs appear across Romance languages, including Spanish escribir, French écrire, and Italian scrivere, reflecting a common Latin root for “to write.”

Usage notes: Escriuen is common in general and formal Catalan alike when referring to multiple writers. It appears in literary, media, and everyday contexts. For example: Ells escriuen cartes cada dia. They write letters every day. In contrast, cada dia is optional and can be replaced with adverbials like avui or sovint without changing the verb form.