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buber.net > Basque > Euskara > Useful Basque Phrases
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After the greetings (some words to break the ice):
- To somebody working:
- Ari garela!
Lit.: So we are working!
- Ari zaretela (bizimainan)!
Similar form changing the person of the verb to the second
of plural.
The verb "ari" implies activity, usually work.
- To somebody sat down calmly:
- Bagaudela!
Lit.: So we remain sitting!
"Gaude" is the first person of plural from the present tense
of "egon", a verb implying lack of activity.
- Zer, patxadan?
Lit.: What, (you are here) calmly?
- Coming across somebody walking:
- Bagoazela!
Lit: Here we go!
Notice the pattern repeated later with "izan" (bagarela) and
before with "egon" (bagaudela), now with "joan" to go.
- In a general case:
- Bizi gara!
Lit.: We are alive.
- Bagarela!
Lit.: So we are!
- Answers to the above:
- Hementxe!
Lit.: Right here!
"Hementxe (ari) naiz" I'm (working) right here - is
understood.
- Hementxe, bizimainan!
Something like: I'm right here making my living.
- Hementxe, tirriki-tarraka!
"Tirriki-tarraka" represents here the sound of dragging, and
it means working activity.
- Beharko!
A shortened form for "beharko dut" It will be my duty.
- Ihardun/aritu/ibili/joan beharko!
As the above, adding the verb describing the activity:
to work/to work/to be doing something/to go.
- Zer erremedio!
What else can I do?
Sometimes sounds more like: ze' erremeriyo.
From Spanish "!Que remedio!", same meaning.
All corrections are highly encouraged.
This series is selected and translated without permission from:
"Esamoldeak- Euskalduntzeko ariketak" (Idioms- Exercices to
become a Basque speaker) written by Maizpide Euskaltegiko Irakasleak,
Gerriko Argitaletxea, Lazkao 1989.
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