LingoflyThe weather is "done": euria egiten du
Basque "does" the weather: euria egiten du — the rain "gets done", elurra egiten du — the snow "gets done". An impersonal force does it, and it never asks the doer for a name. For example: “gaur euria egiten du Bilbon” — Today in Bilbao it is raining. A rule from the Basque course: worked out on examples, not memorized as a wording.
How it works
Basque "does" the weather: euria egiten du — the rain "gets done", elurra egiten du — the snow "gets done". An impersonal force does it, and it never asks the doer for a name.
Temperature goes through egon "to be (located)", with the adjective bare, no article: hotz dago, bero dago, epel dago. Or it is "made" too: hotz egiten du, bero egiten du. Fog "is there": lainoa dago.
One formula covers the whole forecast: the weather noun + "egiten du".
By example
How the rule settles in your head
A rule is not memorized from an explanation. It is memorized from an attempt to use it and a mistake — that is why the app delivers it mixed in with words, not as a separate lesson: it resurfaces exactly where you forgot it.
Frequently asked
The weather is "done": how does it work in Basque?
Basque "does" the weather: euria egiten du — the rain "gets done", elurra egiten du — the snow "gets done". An impersonal force does it, and it never asks the doer for a name.
What does it look like in a Basque example sentence?
“gaur euria egiten du Bilbon” — Today in Bilbao it is raining. A rule is easier to test on sentences like this than to memorize as a wording: what surfaces in conversation is the sentence.