Basque

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Etymology

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From Proto-Basque *guzti or *guzi.[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): (most dialects) /ɡus̻ti/ [ɡus̻.t̪i]
  • IPA(key): (Biscayan) /ɡus̺ti/ [ɡus̺.t̪i]

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  • Hyphenation: guz‧ti

Determiner

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guzti (postposed)

  1. all
    Galleta guztiak jan dituzu!You ate all the cookies!
    Etxe hauek guztiak hutsik daude.All these houses are abandoned.

Usage notes

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  • A demonstrative determiner (hau, hori or hura) may appear between the noun and guzti, which is inflected equally (see the example above).
  • As a pronoun, only the definite forms guztia, guztiak and guztiok are used.

Declension

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Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ guzti” in Etymological Dictionary of Basque by R. L. Trask, sussex.ac.uk

Further reading

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