Archaic and Literary Verb Forms

Aditz Zaharrak eta Literarioak

About this concept

Historical verb forms found in literature and older texts: archaic synthetic forms, the old past tense ('edin'/'ezan' auxiliaries), and classical Basque literary constructions.

In Settemila Lingue, this concept generates a practice deck of ~40 cards at level C2.

Examples

Bazekien zer zen.He/She knew what it was. (archaic)

Erran zuen.He/She said. (literary, vs. 'esan zuen')

Jaunak erran zian.The lord said. (classical)

Bego horretan.Let it remain at that. (archaic)

Prerequisite

Synthetic Verb FormsB1

More C2 concepts

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