Basque

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): (most dialects) /bas̻int͡s̻ate/ [ba.s̻ĩn.t͡s̻a.t̪e]
  • IPA(key): (Biscayan) /bas̺int͡s̻ate/ [ba.s̺ĩn.t͡s̻a.t̪e]

  • Rhymes: -ate
  • Hyphenation: ba‧zin‧tza‧te

Verb

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bazintzate

  1. (archaic) Third-person plural (haiek), taking second-person singular (zu) as direct object, distal conditional potential form of izan.
  2. (archaic) Third-person singular (hark), taking second-person plural (zuek) as direct object, distal conditional potential form of izan.

Usage notes

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Linguistically, this verb form can be seen as belonging to the reconstructed citation form ezan instead of izan.