This is the 11330th most frequent Catalan word.
trencava
"Trencava" means "was breaking" or "used to break" in English.
The verb 'trencava' is conjugated in the imperfect tense, indicating an ongoing or habitual action.
El nen trencava els seus joguets quan estava enfadat.
The boy broke his toys when he was angry.
Here, 'trencava' is used metaphorically to describe an action of interrupting silence, habitual in nature due to the 'sempre' marker.
Sempre trencava el silenci amb un bon acudit.
He always broke the silence with a good joke.
In this example, 'trencava' again conveys the action of breaking, but it's tied to a conditional scenario, indicating past habitual or repeated contexts.