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.

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• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsHow to Use This BookChapter One: To Be or Not to BeDialogue: SorginaHitz eta esaldi berriakIzan (to be) and nor (who)Affirmative word orderNegative word orderSingular and plural markersYes and no questionsDialogue: Gozaen hemendik!Hitz eta esaldi berriakAla or Edo in questionsResponding to zer? nor? and nortzuk?Dialogue: LagunakHitz eta esaldi berriakZenbakiak numbers 1\-20AnswersChapter Two: Location, Location, LocationDialogue: BulegoanHitz eta esaldi berriakEgon (to Be)Dialogue: Non dago banpiroaHitz eta esaldi berriakResponding to non?Inessive with common singular nounsResponding to nola?AnswersChapter Three: I'm Not from Around HereDialogue: Ez naiz hemengoaHitz eta esaldi berriakLocative -ko with inanimate nouns and place namesResponding to nongoa? (where from?)More about nationalities and countriesDialogue: Nolakoa da Xurga banpiroa?Hitz eta esaldi berriakResponding to nolakoa?/nolakoak? (what is someone like?)Building phrases with adjectivesHilabeteak (months of the year)Zenbakiak numbers 20\-40AnswersChapter Four: Living It UpDialogue: Non bizi zara?Hitz eta esaldi berriakBizi izan verb (to live)Affirmative and negative sentencesInessive with proper nouns (place names)Inessive in the pluralInessive with inanimate thingsInessive with inanimate proper nounsResponding to norekin? (with whom?): Associative with personal pronounsAssociative with personal pronounsDialogue: Norekin bizi da Xurga?Hitz eta esaldi berriakAnswersChapter Five: This, That and the OtherDialogue: Liburu hau garrantzitsua da!Hitz eta esaldi berriakDemonstratives\--this one, that one, and that one over thereInessive demonstratives with inanimate beingsAssociative demonstratives with animate and inanimate beingsDialogue: Zenbat gauza dago hormako apaletan?Hitz eta esaldi berriakNumbers with nounsResponding to zenbat? zenbat da? zenbat . . . dago?Asko (many, a lot)Zenbakiak numbers 40\-60AnswersChapter Six: Where to We Go from Here?Dialogue: Nora zoaz, Goxo?Hitz eta esaldi berriakJoan (to go) and nor (who)Responding to nora? (where to?)Allative case in the plural with inanimate nounsDialogue: Nola zoaz, Goxo?Hitz eta esaldi berriakResponding to Nola zoaz? Kotxez! (How are you going? By car!)Dialogue: Xurga erromantikoa, edo, Bazoaz postetxera gaur?Hitz eta esaldi berriakEgunak (days of the week)AnswersChapter Seven: Where Did That Come From?Dialogue: Nondik nora doaz Goxo eta Xurga?Hitz eta esaldi berriakEtorri (to come)Responding to Nondik? (from where?)\--ablative case with singular nounsAblative case\--plural, inanimateAblative and allative forms\--from this one to that oneDialogue: Zein margotakoa da Goxoren azala?Hitz eta esaldi berriakResponding 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\-100AnswersChapter Eight: The Haves and the Have NotsDialogue: BurukominaHitz eta esaldi berriakEduki (to have, to possess) with singular objects and zer-nork (what-who): TransitiveMore about ergative markers on subjectsDialogue: Goxo, zer daukazu haitzuloan?Hitz eta esaldi berriakEduki (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, anyAginduak (simple commands)AnswersChapter Nine: Been There, Done ThatDialogue: Zer gertatu da gaur?Hitz eta esaldi berriakResponding to Zer gertatu da? (What happened? What has happened?)Recent past with izanUkan (to have): Transitive auxiliary verb with singular objectDialogue: Zer gehiago egin duzu gaur?Hitz eta esaldi berriakRecent past (present perfect) with ukan (singular-third-person object)Ukan and zer-nork (what-who)Responding to Zer ordu da? (What time is it?)AnswersChapter Ten: Yours, Mine and OursDialogue: Norena da Kotxea?Hitz eta esaldi berriakResponding to Noren . . . da? and Norena da?Possessive forms of people's names: Genitive case with proper nounsPossessive forms with living beings (not their names): Genitive case with common animate nounsPossessive forms of plural animate nounsDialogue: Interneteko ikasgelaPossessive (genitive) forms of the demonstrativesMore About DemonstrativeZenbakiak numbers 100\-1000AnswersChapter Eleven: Wants and NeedsDialogue: Zer behar du XurgakHitz eta esaldi berriakNahi eta behar (to want and to need)Hitz eta esaldi berriakAhal eta ezin (can and cannot)Past tense with nahi izan, behar izan, ahal izan, and ezin izanTelling TimeNumbers in the thousands: Giving the yearAnswersChapter Twelve: What the Future HoldsDialogue: Zer gertatuko da, Xurga Banpiroa esnatu eta gero?Hitz eta esaldi berriakThe future tenseNahi, behar, ahal and ezin in the futureResponding to Noiz? (When?)Dialogue: Goxoren ipuinak jarraituko duHitz eta esaldi berriakResponding to Zergatik? (Why?) with -lako (because)Ordinal numbersAnswersChapter Thirteen: Living in the Here and NowDialogue: Banpiroek ezin dute eguzkia hartu?Hitz eta esaldi berriakHabitual present (compound present)Time expressions to use with the habitual presentResponding to Noizero?Practice negatives with more complex structuresDialogue: Nori buruz pentsatzen du Xurgak?Hitz eta esaldi berriakResponding to Zeri buruz? Zertari buruz? (About what?) Nori buruz? (About Who[m]?)Expressing I know how to with jakin and present participlesResponding to Norentzat? (For whom?): Destinative caseResponding to Zer esan duzu? with subordination marker -laDatesAnswersChapter Fourteen: Like It or NotDialogue: Gustatzen zaizu horrrelako telesaioa?Hitz eta esaldi berriakIzan (to be) and nor-nori (who-to whom)Responding to Gustatzen zaizu? (Do you like it?)Verbal nouns from present participlesGustatzen zaio? (Is it pleasing to him? Does she like it?)Dative Case (indirect object) with pronouns and nounsResponding 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 berriakResponding 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 beingsZer ordu da? Telling time before the hourNorengana doa Goxo? (Where is Goxo going?)AnswersGlossaryIndex