Aurrera!: A Textbook for Studying Basque, Volume 1

ISBN-13: 9781948908689 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 456 str.

Linda White

Spis treści

• 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 nounsResponding 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