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egin.

to do

4 characters2 syllables approx.Euskara language

Meaning & usage

verb/eɡin/[e.ɣ̞ĩn]
  1. to do to do, make, create, produce

  2. to do to cook

  3. to do to spend (time)

    Sei hilabete egin nituen basamortuan.
  4. to do to turn a certain age

    Bihar 30 urte egingo ditu.
  5. to do [with instrumental] to speak (a language)

    Egin dezagun ingelesez.
  6. to do [with inessive] to play (a game)

    kartetan egin
  7. to do [with allative] to turn

  8. to do let's suppose

  9. to become, to turn into

  10. [with allative] to get accustomed to

  11. to seem, to look

  12. Used as a light verb to allow nouns to function as verbs. The resulting verbs usually take transitive auxiliaries, even when translated by intransitive verbs.

    auxiliary
    hitz egin
  13. Used as a verbal intensifier.

    auxiliary
    Etorri egin zara azkenean.
  14. Refers back to a previous verb.

    auxiliary
Where this word comes from

From Proto-Basque *e-gin-i, possibly related to Iberian ekien.

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