This is the 1700th most frequent Catalan word.
veí
Neighbour.
The word 'veí' is used here to denote 'neighbor,' indicating a person living nearby in the community.
El meu veí em va ajudar a moure els mobles ahir.
My neighbor helped me move the furniture yesterday.
Here, 'veïns' refers to 'residents,' pointing to individuals who belong to a shared living area, as part of a collective.
Aquests pisos estan destinats als veïns del barri.
These apartments are intended for the residents of the neighborhood.
In this context, 'veïnes' is used as 'neighboring' in an adjectival form to describe proximity between objects, specifically houses.