Aurrera!: A Textbook for Studying Basque, Volume 2
by Linda White
University of Nevada Press, 2010 Cloth: 978-0-87417-784-8 | eISBN: 978-0-87417-800-5 Library of Congress Classification PH5035.W55 2008 Dewey Decimal Classification 499.9282421
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Aurrera! is a comprehensive text for beginning-level students who are learning Basque (the Batua form approved by the Academy of the Basque Language) in a classroom setting or on their own. Each chapter introduces elements of grammar and offers students written and spoken exercises, vocabulary, dialogues, and other activities that demonstrate the language in action, plus Basque reading texts that entertain while they illustrate the points of the chapter. The complexities of Basque grammar are explained in clear, easy-to-understand terms, and the dialogues and exercises introduce students to common idioms and the basics of social conversation. Volume 1 covers material for the first two semesters of college-level language-classroom work, and volume 2 covers a third and fourth seme- ster of study, addressing more advanced grammatical structures and introducing additional vocabulary. Aurrera! offers a systematic and engaging approach to teaching Basque in a classroom. In addition, it gives independent learners a sound foundation in the language that will allow them to make their own way in a Basque-speaking environment and to read basic Basque texts.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Linda White is an emerita professor of Basque Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno, where she taught the Basque language for many years. She is the author of several books and the translator of many more from Basque and Spanish.
REVIEWS
“The relative difficulty of Basque grammar is simply explained in common every day language” –Book News Inc. 2010
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
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 @@@
Answers @@@
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? @@@
Answers @@@
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 @@@
Answers @@@
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 nouns
Responding to norekin? (with whom?): Associative with personal pronouns @@@
Associative with personal pronouns @@@
Dialogue: Norekin bizi da Xurga? @@@
Hitz eta esaldi berriak @@@
Answers @@@
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 @@@
Answers @@@
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) @@@
Answers @@@
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 @@@
Answers @@@
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) @@@
Answers @@@
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?) @@@
Answers @@@
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 @@@
Answers @@@
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 @@@
Answers @@@
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 @@@
Answers @@@
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 @@@
Answers @@@
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?) @@@
Answers @@@
Glossary @@@
Index @@@
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Aurrera!: A Textbook for Studying Basque, Volume 2
by Linda White
University of Nevada Press, 2010 Cloth: 978-0-87417-784-8 eISBN: 978-0-87417-800-5
Aurrera! is a comprehensive text for beginning-level students who are learning Basque (the Batua form approved by the Academy of the Basque Language) in a classroom setting or on their own. Each chapter introduces elements of grammar and offers students written and spoken exercises, vocabulary, dialogues, and other activities that demonstrate the language in action, plus Basque reading texts that entertain while they illustrate the points of the chapter. The complexities of Basque grammar are explained in clear, easy-to-understand terms, and the dialogues and exercises introduce students to common idioms and the basics of social conversation. Volume 1 covers material for the first two semesters of college-level language-classroom work, and volume 2 covers a third and fourth seme- ster of study, addressing more advanced grammatical structures and introducing additional vocabulary. Aurrera! offers a systematic and engaging approach to teaching Basque in a classroom. In addition, it gives independent learners a sound foundation in the language that will allow them to make their own way in a Basque-speaking environment and to read basic Basque texts.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Linda White is an emerita professor of Basque Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno, where she taught the Basque language for many years. She is the author of several books and the translator of many more from Basque and Spanish.
REVIEWS
“The relative difficulty of Basque grammar is simply explained in common every day language” –Book News Inc. 2010
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
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 @@@
Answers @@@
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? @@@
Answers @@@
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 @@@
Answers @@@
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 nouns
Responding to norekin? (with whom?): Associative with personal pronouns @@@
Associative with personal pronouns @@@
Dialogue: Norekin bizi da Xurga? @@@
Hitz eta esaldi berriak @@@
Answers @@@
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 @@@
Answers @@@
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) @@@
Answers @@@
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 @@@
Answers @@@
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) @@@
Answers @@@
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?) @@@
Answers @@@
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 @@@
Answers @@@
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 @@@
Answers @@@
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 @@@
Answers @@@
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 @@@
Answers @@@
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?) @@@
Answers @@@
Glossary @@@
Index @@@
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