Aurrera!

Linda White is emerita professor at the University of Nevada, Reno, Center for Basque Studies, where she taught Basque for many years. She is the coauthor of the Basque-English, English-Basque Dictionary and the English-Basque Dictionary, both published by the University of Nevada Press, and has translated numerous works from Basque and Spanish.

Preface
Acknowledgments
How to Use This Book
Chapter One: To Be or Not to Be
Dialogue: Sorgina
Hitz eta esaldi berriak
Izan (to be) and nor (who)
Affirmative word order
Negative word order
Singular and plural markers
Yes and no questions
Dialogue: Gozaen hemendik!
Hitz eta esaldi berriak
Ala or Edo in questions
Responding to zer? nor? and nortzuk?
Dialogue: Lagunak
Hitz eta esaldi berriak
Zenbakiak numbers 1/-20
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Chapter Two: Location, Location, Location
Dialogue: Bulegoan
Hitz eta esaldi berriak
Egon (to Be)
Dialogue: Non dago banpiroa
Hitz eta esaldi berriak
Responding to non?
Inessive with common singular nouns
Responding to nola?
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Chapter Three: I'm Not from Around Here
Dialogue: Ez naiz hemengoa
Hitz eta esaldi berriak
Locative -ko with inanimate nouns and place names
Responding to nongoa? (where from?)
More about nationalities and countries
Dialogue: Nolakoa da Xurga banpiroa?
Hitz eta esaldi berriak
Responding to nolakoa?/nolakoak? (what is someone like?)
Building phrases with adjectives
Hilabeteak (months of the year)
Zenbakiak numbers 20/-40
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Chapter Four: Living It Up
Dialogue: Non bizi zara?
Hitz eta esaldi berriak
Bizi izan verb (to live)
Affirmative and negative sentences
Inessive with proper nouns (place names)
Inessive in the plural
Inessive with inanimate things
Inessive with inanimate proper nounsResponding to norekin? (with whom?): Associative with personal pronouns
Associative with personal pronouns
Dialogue: Norekin bizi da Xurga?
Hitz eta esaldi berriak
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Chapter Five: This, That and the Other
Dialogue: Liburu hau garrantzitsua da!
Hitz eta esaldi berriak
Demonstratives/--this one, that one, and that one over there
Inessive demonstratives with inanimate beings
Associative demonstratives with animate and inanimate beings
Dialogue: Zenbat gauza dago hormako apaletan?
Hitz eta esaldi berriak
Numbers with nouns
Responding to zenbat? zenbat da? zenbat . . . dago?
Asko (many, a lot)
Zenbakiak numbers 40/-60
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Chapter Six: Where to We Go from Here?
Dialogue: Nora zoaz, Goxo?
Hitz eta esaldi berriak
Joan (to go) and nor (who)
Responding to nora? (where to?)
Allative case in the plural with inanimate nouns
Dialogue: Nola zoaz, Goxo?
Hitz eta esaldi berriak
Responding to Nola zoaz? Kotxez! (How are you going? By car!)
Dialogue: Xurga erromantikoa, edo, Bazoaz postetxera gaur?
Hitz eta esaldi berriak
Egunak (days of the week)
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Chapter Seven: Where Did That Come From?
Dialogue: Nondik nora doaz Goxo eta Xurga?
Hitz eta esaldi berriak
Etorri (to come)
Responding to Nondik? (from where?)/--ablative case with singular nouns
Ablative case/--plural, inanimate
Ablative and allative forms/--from this one to that one
Dialogue: Zein margotakoa da Goxoren azala?
Hitz eta esaldi berriak
Responding to Zein margotakoa da? (What color is it?)
Jakin (to know) and zer-nork (what-who)
Responding to Badakizu euskaraz? (Do you Know Basque?)
Zenbakiak numbers 60/-100
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Chapter Eight: The Haves and the Have Nots
Dialogue: Burukomina
Hitz eta esaldi berriak
Eduki (to have, to possess) with singular objects and zer-nork (what-who): Transitive
More about ergative markers on subjects
Dialogue: Goxo, zer daukazu haitzuloan?
Hitz eta esaldi berriak
Eduki (to have) with plural objects and zer-nork (what-who)
Responding to Zer daukazu? (What do you have?) and Badaukazu . . .? (Do you have. . . ?)
Using the partitive -rik (-ik) to express some, any
Aginduak (simple commands)
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Chapter Nine: Been There, Done That
Dialogue: Zer gertatu da gaur?
Hitz eta esaldi berriak
Responding to Zer gertatu da? (What happened? What has happened?)
Recent past with izan
Ukan (to have): Transitive auxiliary verb with singular object
Dialogue: Zer gehiago egin duzu gaur?
Hitz eta esaldi berriak
Recent past (present perfect) with ukan (singular-third-person object)
Ukan and zer-nork (what-who)
Responding to Zer ordu da? (What time is it?)
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Chapter Ten: Yours, Mine and Ours
Dialogue: Norena da Kotxea?
Hitz eta esaldi berriak
Responding to Noren . . . da? and Norena da?
Possessive forms of people's names: Genitive case with proper nouns
Possessive forms with living beings (not their names): Genitive case with common animate nouns
Possessive forms of plural animate nouns
Dialogue: Interneteko ikasgela
Possessive (genitive) forms of the demonstratives
More About Demonstrative
Zenbakiak numbers 100/-1000
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Chapter Eleven: Wants and Needs
Dialogue: Zer behar du Xurgak
Hitz eta esaldi berriak
Nahi eta behar (to want and to need)
Hitz eta esaldi berriak
Ahal eta ezin (can and cannot)
Past tense with nahi izan, behar izan, ahal izan, and ezin izan
Telling Time
Numbers in the thousands: Giving the year
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Chapter Twelve: What the Future Holds
Dialogue: Zer gertatuko da, Xurga Banpiroa esnatu eta gero?
Hitz eta esaldi berriak
The future tense
Nahi, behar, ahal and ezin in the future
Responding to Noiz? (When?)
Dialogue: Goxoren ipuinak jarraituko du
Hitz eta esaldi berriak
Responding to Zergatik? (Why?) with -lako (because)
Ordinal numbers
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Chapter Thirteen: Living in the Here and Now
Dialogue: Banpiroek ezin dute eguzkia hartu?
Hitz eta esaldi berriak
Habitual present (compound present)
Time expressions to use with the habitual present
Responding to Noizero?
Practice negatives with more complex structures
Dialogue: Nori buruz pentsatzen du Xurgak?
Hitz eta esaldi berriak
Responding to Zeri buruz? Zertari buruz? (About what?) Nori buruz? (About Who[m]?)
Expressing I know how to with jakin and present participles
Responding to Norentzat? (For whom?): Destinative case
Responding to Zer esan duzu? with subordination marker -la
Dates
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Chapter Fourteen: Like It or Not
Dialogue: Gustatzen zaizu horrrelako telesaioa?
Hitz eta esaldi berriak
Izan (to be) and nor-nori (who-to whom)
Responding to Gustatzen zaizu? (Do you like it?)
Verbal nouns from present participles
Gustatzen zaio? (Is it pleasing to him? Does she like it?)
Dative Case (indirect object) with pronouns and nouns
Responding to Nori gustatzen zaio? (Who likes it?)
Responding to Interesatzen zaizu? (Does it interest you?) and Berdin zaizu? (Is it all the same to you?)
Responding to Norengana zoaz? Norengana joan zara? (To whom are you going? To whom did you go?)
Hitz eta esaldi berriak
Responding to Norengandik zatoz? Norengandik etorri zara? (From whom have you come?
Inessive with animate beings: Saying "I believe in . . ."
Demonstratives: Allative, ablative, and inessive with animate beings
Zer ordu da? Telling time before the hour
Norengana doa Goxo? (Where is Goxo going?)
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Glossary
Index