Aurrera!: A Textbook for Studying Basque, Volumes 1

Chapter FourLiving It Up

86 Living It Up Dialogue Non bizi zara? Goxo Begi Oker kobazuloan bizi da. Bakarrik bizi da. Ez da inorekin bizi. Ez da Xurgarekin bizi. Xurga ere bakarrik bizi da, baina ez da kobazulo batean bizi. Non bizi da Xurga? Xurga etxean bizi da. Hilkutxa etxean dago. Norekin bizi da Xurga? Inorekin ez da bizi. Bakarrik bizi da. 1. goxo: Xurga, non bizi dira Errusiako astronautak? 2. xurga: Errusian bizi dira, noski. 3. g: Eta non bizi da Estatu Batuetako presidentea? 4. x: Washington-en bizi da. 5. g: Oso adimentsua zara. Eta ni, non bizi naiz? 6. x: Haitzuloan bizi zara. Euskadin bizi zara. 7. Lur planetan bizi zara. Esne-bide galaxian bizi zara. 8. g: Ederki! Gu elkarrekin bizi gara! 9. x: Ez, ez da egia. 10. Ni etxean bizi naiz, bakarrik, eta zu haitzuloan bizi zara. 11. Gu ez gara elkarrekin bizi. 12. g: Baina Euskadin bizi gara, ezta? 13. Eta Lur planetan bizi gara. Gainera, Esne-bide galaxian bizi gara. 14. Horrela, elkarrekin bizi gara! 15. x: Oso pertsona arraroa zara, Goxo. c h a p t e r f o u r 86 hi tz eta esa l d i ber riak 87 ■ Hitz eta esaldi berriak ■ Beginning with chapter 4, nouns and adjectives will be listed as bare words, without the singular and plural markers. bizi da she/he lives bakarrik alone inor someone inor ez no one inorekin ez with no one, not with anyone Xurgarekin with Xurga Norekin? With whom? bizi dira they live Non bizi dira? Where do they live? noski of course presidente president bizi naiz I live haitzulo cave kobazulo cave bizi zara you live Lur Earth planeta planet planetan on the planet esne milk Esne-bide Milky Way galaxia galaxy Ederki! Very well (done)! Great! Excellent! elkar each other elkarrekin with each other, together egia truth ez da egia it isn’t true, it isn’t the truth horrela in that way, therefore, thus 88 livin g it up pertsona person arraro rare, unusual, strange activity 4.1 ■ vocabulary Try different methods for learning new vocabulary. Here are some suggestions. Make flashcards with Euskara on one side and English on the other. After testing yourself a few times with the cards, set a timer for two minutes and see how many you can answer correctly in that time. Write out each vocabulary word five times. Then test your knowledge by covering the English and giving the meanings of the Euskara. When you are able to do that well, reverse the process. Cover the Euskara, and use the English for your cue. Which one is more difficult for you to do? Purchase the wide-lined paper that elementary students use to practice penmanship . Print your new words large with colored markers on the wide lines. Do whatever you need to do to keep vocabulary practice from getting boring. ■ Bizi izan (to live) verb ■ The word bizi means live. It is used with the auxiliary verb izan (to be) to form the present tense of to live. For example, (ni) bizi naiz I live (zu) bizi zara you live (sing.) (hi) bizi haiz you live (sing., familiar) (bera) bizi da she lives, he lives, it lives (haiek) bizi dira they live (gu) bizi gara we live (zuek) bizi zarete you live (pl.) q: Non bizi zara? Where do you live? a: Galesen bizi naiz. I live in Wales. Ni Galesen bizi naiz. I live in Wales. Estatu Batuetan bizi naiz. I live in the U.S. affirmative an d n egative sentences 89 Ni Estatu Batuetan bizi naiz. I live in the U.S. Kanadan bizi naiz. I live in Canada. Ni Kanadan bizi naiz. I live in Canada. q: Ingalaterran bizi da? Does she live in England? a: Ez, ez da Ingalaterran bizi. No, she doesn’t live in England. Australian bizi da. She lives in Australia. ■ Affirmative and negative sentences ■ note: bizi da separates in the negative, as the auxiliary verb da moves to the front of the sentence where it is preceded by the negative ez (not). Ez can mean both no and not. Gorka Donostian bizi da. Gorka lives in Donostia. Gorka ez da Frankfurten bizi. Gorka doesn’t live in Frankfurt. (Zu) Queenslanden bizi zara. You live in Queensland. (Zu) ez zara Nevadan bizi. You don’t live in Nevada. (Ni) Amerikan bizi naiz. I live in America. (Ni) ez naiz Frantzian...