Features
Blue: variational pattern non-attested
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 the subjunctive, the imperative and in the potential analytic forms the predicate appears bare.
(1) | etor | dadin |
come | (3ABS).EDIN.COMP | |
‘that he/she comes.’ |
Variational pattern. In varieties, the predicate appears with the -tu suffix (the perfective participial suffix, glossed PTCP) in those contexts.
(2) | etorri | dadin |
come.PTCP | (3ABS).EDIN.COMP | |
‘that he/she comes.’ |
Reported in: western and most central varieties.
Chapter: Aspect
Keywords: aspect, imperative, participle, potential, subjunctive, verb


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