Lingofly"It hurts": -n plus mina dut
To complain, put the body part into the -n form — "in the head", "in the legs". For example: “eztarrian mina du” — His throat hurts. A rule from the Basque course: worked out on examples, not memorized as a wording.
How it works
To complain, put the body part into the -n form — "in the head", "in the legs".
And the pain is "had": buruan mina dut — word for word "in the head I have pain". About someone else — du: eztarrian mina du — his throat hurts.
Legs work the same way: hanketan mina dut — my legs hurt. Two things at once take ditut: sukarra eta eztula ditut — a fever and a cough. A fever is "had" too: sukarra dut.
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
"It hurts": how does it work in Basque?
To complain, put the body part into the -n form — "in the head", "in the legs".
What does it look like in a Basque example sentence?
“eztarrian mina du” — His throat hurts. A rule is easier to test on sentences like this than to memorize as a wording: what surfaces in conversation is the sentence.