Reflective Verbs 3
32 Reflective Verbs 3
32.1 Reflective Verbs
- Additional reflective verbs that take the dative include: kostatu (cost)), iruditu (seemed), berdin(same),gelditu (remained, left).
- Some of the reflective verbs can also be used non-reflectively.
- Such as "Ardo gutzi gelditu da." "Little wine remains."
- and reflectively (Niri) "Ardo gutzi gelditu zait." "Little wine remains for me."
- Berdin was introduced earlier to mean "the same" in greetings and can also be used with the auxiliary izan as in "Berdin da." "It is the same./It doesn't matter."
- It can also be used reflectively as in "(Niri) Berdin zait." "It is the same to me./I don't care."
- Berdin uses the helper word izan, like "ahal izan", introdcued earlier, so past is "berdin izan" and future is "berdin izango".
- The dative form of the auxilary verb can also be used with non-reflective verbs.
- "Zaldiak etortzen zaizkit." "The horses come to me."
Reflective Verbs 3
- berdin izan: was the same
- berdin: is the same
- berdin izango: will be the same
- kostatu: cost
- kostaten: costs
- kostatuko: will cost
- iruditu: seemed
- iruditzen: seems
- irudituko: will seem
- gelditu: remained, was left
- gelditen: remains, is left
- geldituko: will remain, will be left
- ardo: wine
- gutxi: little, few
- asko: a lot