jaulkipen-data

“jaulkipen-data” — date of issue in Basque. Noun, level A1. Literally 'issue's date': jaulkipen — 'the issuing' (from eman — 'to give') + data. Next to it in the passport stands the expiry date: iraungitze-data. In a live sentence: “Jaulkipen-data irakurri du funtzionarioak pasaportean.” — The clerk read the date of issue in the passport. A word from the everyday Basque course, level A1.

Updated September 1, 2026 · Lingofly

In short

“date of issue” in Basque

Written in Basque	jaulkipen-data
Translation	date of issue
Part of speech	noun
Level	A1

Why it looks that way

Literally 'issue's date': jaulkipen — 'the issuing' (from eman — 'to give') + data. Next to it in the passport stands the expiry date: iraungitze-data

A word with a story stays in memory longer than one learned as a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.

In a live sentence

A single word almost never appears alone in conversation. A sentence shows where it fits and what stands next to it.

Jaulkipen-data irakurri du funtzionarioak pasaportean.
The clerk read the date of issue in the passport.

How not to forget this word

Reading a word and remembering it are different jobs. A day later, little survives of a single reading — and that is not bad memory, that is how memory works.

This has been tested on foreign words too. The difference shows up most when you test yourself a few days later rather than straight away.checked many times
Kim & Webb, 2022, Language Learning 72(2) · 48 experiments, 3,411 participants, 98 comparisons.
Recalling beats re-reading. Covering the translation and trying to remember it does more than reading it ten more times.checked many times
Adesope, Trevisan & Sundararajan, 2017, Review of Educational Research 87(3) · 188 experiments, 272 comparisons. g = 0.61; against plain re-reading 0.51, against passive review 0.93.
An answer you worked out yourself sticks better than one handed to you.checked many times
Bertsch et al., 2007, Memory & Cognition 35(2) · 86 studies, 445 comparisons, d = 0.40.

Frequently asked

How do you say “date of issue” in Basque?

«jaulkipen-data». In a live sentence: “Jaulkipen-data irakurri du funtzionarioak pasaportean.” — The clerk read the date of issue in the passport. Noun, level A1.

Why does this word look the way it does?

Literally 'issue's date': jaulkipen — 'the issuing' (from eman — 'to give') + data. Next to it in the passport stands the expiry date: iraungitze-data. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.