- (etxe, etxea, etxeak,
etxeok: "house, the / a house, (the / some) houses,
these houses"),
ergative (etxek, etxeak, etx****,
etxeok),
dative (etxeri, etxeari...
- that the
speaker is
included in the referent):
etxeak ("the houses") vs.
etxeok ("these
houses [of ours]"),
euskaldunak ("the
Basque speakers") vs. euskaldunok...
- eraikinok? Nire
etxeak dira. ("What are
those buildings? They are my houses").
Etxeok nireak dira ("These
houses are mine"). It is also used to
include oneself...
- However, the
numerals may co-occur with a determiner. hiru
three etxeok house-ART hiru
etxeok three house-ART 'these/those (nearby)
three houses' hiru three...
