Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 106. Chapters: Japanese language, Basque language, Korean language, Sumerian language, Etruscan language, Ainu language, Language isolate, Burushaski, Basque verbs, Iberian language, Natchez people, Yaghan language, Tunica language, Timucua language, Zuni language, Nicaraguan Sign Language, Sandawe language, Ket language, Haida language, Tiwi language, Paleohispanic scripts, P'urhépecha language, Nivkh language, Kusunda language, Shabo language, Yélî Dnye language, Yuchi language, Karankawa, Hadza language, Hattic language, Keresan languages, Tonkawa language, Chimariko language, Washo language, Páez language, Languages of Iberia, Enindhilyagwa language, Movima language, Yuracaré language, Coahuilteco language, Ticuna language, Koryo-mar, Kuot language, Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language, Karuk language, Takelma language, Nihali language, Paleohispanic languages, Anêm language, Itonama language, Shompen languages, Gutian language, Kutenai language, Kx'a languages, Huaorani language, Máku language, Salinan language, Atakapa language, Garawa language, Siuslaw people, Beothuk language, Yahi language, Yana language, Fulniô language, Taiap language, Tequistlatecan languages, Espanca script, Culle language, Yawa languages, Chitimacha language, Adai people, Lule language, Kassite language, Providence Island Sign Language, Esselen language, Lavukaleve language, Camsá language, Munichi language, Tinigua language, Cayuse language, Warao language, Baenan language, Puquina language, Urarina language, Yuri language, Tause language, Abinomn language, Isirawa language, Laragiya language, Bangi-me language, Busa language, Umbugarla language, Ngurmbur language, Cacán language, Cayubaba language, Cotoname language, Taushiro language, Leco language, Ata language, Pyu language, Yaruro language, Sulka language, Kol language, Yalë language, Canichana language, Oti language. Excerpt: The verb is one of the most complex parts of Basque grammar. It is sometimes represented as a difficult challenge for learners of the language, and many Basque grammars devote most of their pages to lists or tables of verb paradigms. This article does not give a full list of verb forms, its purpose is to explain the nature and structure of the system. One of the remarkable characteristics of the Basque verb is the fact that only a very few verbs can be conjugated synthetically (i.e. have morphological finite forms), the rest only have non-finite forms, which can enter into a wide variety of compound tense structures (consisting of a non-finite verb form combined with a finite auxiliary) and are conjugated in this way (periphrastically). Thus for example 'I come' is nator (a synthetic finite form), but 'I arrive' is iristen naiz (a periphrastic form, literally 'arriving I-am'). Synthetically conjugated verbs like 'come' can also be conjugated periphrastically (etortzen naiz). In some such cases the synthetic/periphrastic contrast is semantic (e.g. nator and etortzen naiz are not generally interchangeable), in others the contrast is more a matter of style or register, or else of diachrony (some synthetic forms of conjugation are archaic or obsolete). A few synthetic forms occurring in twentieth-century Basque literature are even a posteriori extrapolations or back-formations of historically unattested forms, created for stylistic, poetic or puristic purposes. Traditionally Basque verbs are cited using a non-finite form conventionally referred to as the partic...