lokailu
Basque
Etymology
From lotu (“to join”) + gailu (“device”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Navarro-Lapurdian) /lokai̯lu/ [lo.kai̯.lu]
- IPA(key): (Southern) /lokaʎu/ [lo.ka.ʎu]
- Rhymes: -ai̯lu, -u
- Rhymes: -aʎu, -u
- Hyphenation: lo‧kai‧lu
Noun
lokailu inan
- (grammar) conjunction
- Synonyms: juntagailu, testu antolatzaile
Declension
| indefinite | singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| absolutive | lokailu | lokailua | lokailuak |
| ergative | lokailuk | lokailuak | lokailuek |
| dative | lokailuri | lokailuari | lokailuei |
| genitive | lokailuren | lokailuaren | lokailuen |
| comitative | lokailurekin | lokailuarekin | lokailuekin |
| causative | lokailurengatik | lokailuarengatik | lokailuengatik |
| benefactive | lokailurentzat | lokailuarentzat | lokailuentzat |
| instrumental | lokailuz | lokailuaz | lokailuez |
| inessive | lokailutan | lokailuan | lokailuetan |
| locative | lokailutako | lokailuko | lokailuetako |
| allative | lokailutara | lokailura | lokailuetara |
| terminative | lokailutaraino | lokailuraino | lokailuetaraino |
| directive | lokailutarantz | lokailurantz | lokailuetarantz |
| destinative | lokailutarako | lokailurako | lokailuetarako |
| ablative | lokailutatik | lokailutik | lokailuetatik |
| partitive | lokailurik | — | — |
| prolative | lokailutzat | — | — |
Further reading
- “lokailu”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
- “lokailu”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005