
Conlangery #93: Basque/Euskara (natlang)
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What's the Difference Between Intransitive and Transitive?
Most verbs in Basque don't conjugate at all. They only exist in non-finite forms. For conjugation, they take the must take an auxiliary. Which auxiliary they take depends on whether the verb is transitive or intransitive. Transitive verbs take an auxiliary that most linguists called edun but that's a reconstructed form. Different dialects have actually a different dictionary form for it. Some dialects call it ucan, but most dialects just call it isan,. Just to make things complicated. It doesn't mean to do to make, but it means done or made.
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