Verbo Tener: Euskera

8/10 (highly irregular, ergative alignment, split usage). Essential for fluency, but requires dedicated memorization.

In reality, modern Basque does use as the transitive verb "to have." But it is ergative , not nominative. So the structure is: Possessor (ERGATIVE case) + Object (NOMINATIVE) + EDUN (conjugated) | Spanish | Basque (EDUN) | |---------|----------------| | Yo tengo un libro. | Nik liburu bat dut. | | Tú tienes dos perros. | Zuk bi txakur dituzu. | | Él/Ella tiene un coche. | Hark auto bat du. | | Nosotros tenemos hambre. | Guk gosea dugu. | verbo tener euskera

| Subject (has) | Object = me (ni) | Object = you (hi) | Object = him/her/it (hura) | Object = us (gu) | Object = them (haiek) | |---------------|------------------|-------------------|-----------------------------|------------------|-----------------------| | Ni (I) | – | zaitut | dut | – | ditut | | Hi (you, inf) | naizu | – | duk/dun | gaituzu | dituk/ditun | | Hura (s/he) | nau | zaitu | du | gaitu | ditu | | Gu (we) | – | zaitugu | dugu | – | ditugu | | Zuek (you pl) | naizue | zaituzte | duzue | gaituzue | dituzue | | Haiek (they) | naute | zaituzte | dute | gaituzte | dituzte | 8/10 (highly irregular, ergative alignment, split usage)

– The above examples show EDUN ( dut, du ). Let me correct that. So the structure is: Possessor (ERGATIVE case) +