Features
Blue: variational pattern non-attested
(3) Etorriren naiz
Euskaltzaindia. 1987. Euskal Gramatika: Lehen Urratsak II. Iruñea: Institución Príncipe de Viana eta Euskaltzaindia. [Reprinted in Euskaltzaindia. 1997]
Hualde, José Ignacio. 2003b. «Non-finite Forms». In José Ignacio Hualde and Jon Ortiz de Urbina (eds.), A Grammar of Basque. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 196-246.
Mounole, Céline. 2011. Le verbe basque ancien: étude philologique et diachronique. Ph.D. Diss., UPV/EHU and Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux III.
Oyharçabal, Beñat. 2003. «Verbs. Tense, aspect and mood». In José Ignacio Hualde and Jon Ortiz de Urbina (eds.), A grammar of Basque. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 249-284.
Zuazo, Koldo. 2008. Euskalkiak, euskararen dialektoak. Donostia: Elkar.
Generalized pattern. In western and most central varieties, -ko/-go is used to mark the prospective. This suffix is homophonous with the relational/place genitive suffix.
(1) | Egingo | dugu |
do.PROS | (3ABS).have.1PL.ERG | |
‘We will do (it).’ |
Variational pattern. In eastern varieties, -en is used when the participial ends in -n (egonen, eginen).
(2) | Eginen | dugu |
do.PROS | (3ABS).have.1PL.ERG | |
‘We will do (it).’ |
(3) Etorriren naiz come.PROS 1SG.ABS.be 'I will come.'
Chapter: Aspect
Keywords: aspect, genitive, postposition -KO, prospective


Euskaltzaindia. 1987. Euskal Gramatika: Lehen Urratsak II. Iruñea: Institución Príncipe de Viana eta Euskaltzaindia. [Reprinted in Euskaltzaindia. 1997]
Hualde, José Ignacio. 2003b. «Non-finite Forms». In José Ignacio Hualde and Jon Ortiz de Urbina (eds.), A Grammar of Basque. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 196-246.
Mounole, Céline. 2011. Le verbe basque ancien: étude philologique et diachronique. Ph.D. Diss., UPV/EHU and Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux III.
Oyharçabal, Beñat. 2003. «Verbs. Tense, aspect and mood». In José Ignacio Hualde and Jon Ortiz de Urbina (eds.), A grammar of Basque. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 249-284.
Zuazo, Koldo. 2008. Euskalkiak, euskararen dialektoak. Donostia: Elkar.
ABL: ablative
ABS: absolutive
ABSERG: absolutive in Ergative Displacement context
ALL: allative
ALLO: allocutive
APPL: applicative
BN: bounded
CAUS: causative
COMP: complementizer
DAT: dative
DD: dative displacement
DEST: destinative
ED: Ergative Displacement
ERG: ergative
FAM: familiar
F: feminine
GEN: genitive
IPFV: imperfective
INE: inessive
INS: instrumental
M: masculine
MOD: mood
NMLZ: nominalizer
NONFAM: non-familiar (2nd person)
NP: noun phrase
PTCP: participle
PST: past
PL: plural
POST: postposition
PROG: progressive
PROS: prospective
PRTV: partitive
REL: relational postposition
RES: resultative
SG: singular
SOC: sociative
TERM: terminative
UNBN : unbounded