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The Euskara or Basqueis the non-indoeuropean language spoken by some hundred thousand people of the Basque Country or Euskal-herria in basque. The basques are one of the ancient inhabitants of Europe and their origins are still unknown as the origins of their language itself. By the contact of their neighbours it has borrowed words from latin, spanish, french, etc... Some studies say that the 50% of its words come from latin. Nevertheless some other words are thought to come from the stone age because the are formed attaching the term aitz- (stone). For example: Aiztoa (knife), aizkora (axe), etc...
Anyway, it has some unique forms as the "ergatibo", which forces the addition of a -K to the subject when it has a transitive verb. The auriliary verb also reflects the number of the direct object, so the auriliary verb can contain a lot of information (about the subject, the number of direct object ,if it´s singular or plural, and the indirect object).
For example if you say:
Martinek egunkariak erosten dizkit
which means Martin buys me the newspaper; Martine-k is the subject, so it has the -k attached.
The verb is "erosten dizkit", in wich erosten means buy and the auriliary dizkit means
di- is the form for the transitive verbs with a direct object.
-zki- is the number of the direct object(in this case the newspapers). If it were singular you don´t have to add anything.
-t is the indirect objet mark for to me.
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