Basque Grammar

The Basque grammar allows you to manipulate the vocabulary to obtain multiple forms of a word. The grammatical rules below are the most important in Basque and help connect words or shape the structure. We start with the prepositions:

And: eta	Under: azpian
Before: aurretik	After: ondoren
Inside: barru -	Outside: kanpo -
With: -(a)rekin, -ekin	But: baina
For: -(a)rentzat	From: -(e)tik
To: -(e)ra	In: -(e)an

Questions and Adverbs

To ask questions, use the following:

What?: zer?	Who?: nor?
How?: nola?	Why?: zergatik?
Where?: non?

Some of the most important time adverbs:

Never: inoiz ez	Rarely: oso gutxitan
Sometimes: batzuetan	Usually: ohi
Always: beti	Very: oso

Most commonly used pronouns in Basque:

I: ni	You: zu
He: hura, bera	She: hura, bera
We: gu	They: haiek

To express the possession of something [possessive form]:

My: nire	Your: zure
His: bere	Her: bere
Our: gure	Their: beraien

Grammar in a sentence

Some random verbs to show how it's being used:

I speak English: ingelesez hitz egiten dut

You speak French: frantsesez hitz egiten duzu

He speaks German: alemanez hitz egiten du

She speaks Italian: italieraz hitz egiten du

I visited France: frantzia bisitatu nuen

I will drink milk: esnea edango dut

Some extra grammatical structures:

I understand you: ulertzen zaitut

I don't understand you: ez zaitut ulertzen

I don't speak French: ez dut frantsesez hitz egiten

This is my house: hau nire etxea da

That restaurant is far: jatetxea oso urrun dago

No problem: problemarik gabe

The above Basque grammar can provide tools to use in coordination with the Basque vocabulary to obtain some popular Basque phrases.