We leave you a list of beautiful phrases in Euskera, Basque or Basque, considered a language of unknown origin and, according to studies, the oldest living language in Europe.
There are approximately one million “euskaldunak” (“those who speak Basque”) who live in the Basque region. In the following map you can see the percentage of people who speak this language in Euskadi and Navarra.
-Izarrak jaitsi eta zure eskuetan jarriko ditut: "I will lower the stars and put them in your hands."
-Distantziak izan arren, jada ez gaude bakarrik: "Although there are distances we are no longer alone"
-Beti egongo naiz zurekin: "I will always be with you."
-Aberats izatea baino, izen ona hobe: "It is better to have a good name than to be rich."
-Adiskide onekin, orduak labur: "With a good friend, the hours are short."
-Adiskidegabeko bizitza, auzogabeko heriotza: "Life without friends means death without neighbors."
-Aditzaile onari, hitz gutxi: "A good listener needs few words."
-Agindua vixen, esan ohi da: "What is promised is a debt, it is often said."
-Aldi luzeak, guztia ahaztu: "Over time everything is forgotten"
-Amen: Zu hor eta ni hemen: "Amen, you there and I here."
-Umea balitz bezala sentitzen naiz ni zure alboan irudikatuz: "And I feel like a child imagining myself with you."
-Iratzarri nintzen zure alboan Negoela ametz eginez: "I woke up dreaming that I was by your side."
-Oraindik zugan pentsatzen dut: "I still think of you."
-Edo garela urrun ilargia ikusten dugun bera da: "Although we are far away, the moon we see is the same."
-Zer naiz ni zu gabe ?: "What am I without you?"
-Maite zaitut: "I love you."
-Asko maite zaitut: "I love you very much."
-Bizitzak desio bat eskatzeko aukera emango banindu, zu berriz ezagutzea desiatuko nuke: "If life gave me a wish, I would like to meet you again."
-Nire bizitzaren zergaitia zara: "You are the reason for my life."
-Nire bizitzako emakumea zara: "You are the woman of my life"
-Nire bihotzeko poxpoloa zara: "You are the match of my heart."
-Zerua bezain ederra zara !: "You are as beautiful as the sky."
-Ai Zelako irriparra, hura da nire iparra, gidatzen nauen izarra !: "Ah, what a smile, she is my north, the star that guides me"
-Esan zure izena, eta Olentzerori eskatuko diot: "Tell me your name, I'll ask Olentzero"
-Kaixo, nire bihotzeko laztana !: "Hello, darling of my heart."
-Loreak mendian, perretxikoak basoan eta zu bezalako mutila, nire bihotzean: "The flowers in the forest, the mushrooms in the forest, and a boy like you, in my heart"
-Maite zaitut, olatuek itsasoa maite duten bezala: "I love you, like the waves love the sea"
-Ona da natila, ona da suflea, baina zu zeu zara nahiago doubt postrea: "Good is the custard, good is the souflé, but you are the dessert that I yearn for the most."
-Zergatik da itsasoa gazia? Zuk daukazulako goxotasun guztia !: “Why is the sea salty? Because you have all the sweetness. "
-Zerua bezain ederra zara !: "You are as beautiful as the sky !."
-Zu kurba horiekin eta ni frenorik Gabe: "You're like those curves, and I'm without brakes"
-Zu zara piroporik ederrena: "You are the cutest compliment."
-Ilun dago itsasoa nire ohe azpian: egunargi arte ez ditut irekiko begiak: "How black the sea looks under my bed: I won't open my eyes until tomorrow."
-Harrian bixulo: euria egitean xomorroak bainatuko: "In the rain two stones with holes: pools for goldfinches."
-Sentitzen dut min eman izana, barka iezadazu: "I'm sorry I hurt you, forgive me"
-Agian munduarentzat ez zara inor, baina niretzat mundua zara: "Maybe for the world you are nobody, but for me you are the world."
-Musu batean jakingo duzu isildu doubts guztia: "In a kiss, you will know everything that I have kept silent."
-Olerki laburrenaren bertsorik politenak bi hitz baino ez ditu: “The most beautiful line of the shortest poem has only two words: Maite zaitut. I love you. "
-Non gogoa, han zangoa: "Where the heart walks, the foot bows."
-Adiskidetasuna da, bizitzaren errezetan, osagairik garrantzitsuena: "Friendship is the most important ingredient in life's recipe."
-Benetako adiskide bat, zuregan sinesten duen norbait da, zuk zuregan sinesten utzi duzun arren: "A true friend is someone who believes in you even if you have stopped believing in yourself."
-Atzera begiratzeak min egiten dizunean eta aurrera begiratzeak bildurtzen zaitunean, begira zazu ezker edo eskubira eta han egongo naiz, zure ondoan: “When it hurts to look back and you are afraid to look ahead, look to the left or right and I'll be there, by your side. "
-Dezagun gutxi dezagun beti: "What little we do, let's always do it"
-Egia eta fedea, Ezkurrako legea: "Truth and faith, the law of Ezkurra."
-Eroriz ikasten da oinez: "By falling, you learn to walk."
-Non gogoa, han zangoa: "Where the will is, there goes the foot"
-Osasuna, munduko ondauna: "Health is the wealth of the world."
-Ogi gogorrari hagin zorrotza: "To the bad day, good face."
-Utzi bakean, bakean dagoenari: "Leave the one who is at peace alone."
-Zahar hitz, zuhur hitz: "Old man's word, wise word."
-Marinelaren emaztea, goizean senardun, arratsean alargun: "The sailor's wife, handcuffed in the morning, widowed at sunset."
-Munduan nahi duenak luzaroan bizi, oiloekin ohera eta txoriekin jaiki: "Whoever wants to live long in this world, let him lie down with the rooster hens and get up with the birds."
-Hegaztia airerako, gizona lanerako: "The bird for the air, the man for work."
-Idiazabal: zeruko ateak zabal: "» Idiazabal: the open heavenly door. "
-Ilea zuritzea hobe da burua baino: “» It is better for the hair to be blank than for the mind. »
-Ez pentsa ahastu zaitudanik: "Don't think that I have forgotten you."
-Berriz ikusiko gara horrela idatzita badago: "We will see each other again if it is so written."
-Inor ez da ikasia jaiotzen: "No one was born known / enlightened."
-Isilik dagoenak ez dio gezurrik: "He who is silent does not lie."
-Ikusten ez duen begiak negarrik ez: "Eye that does not see, does not cry"
-Gora gu eta gutarrak !: "Up with us and ours!"
-Abendua, jai huts eta gau huts: "December, all party and all night."
-Aditu nahi ez duenak, ez du esan behar: "He who does not want to hear, must not say."
-Aldi joana ez da itzultzen: «The past moment never returns».
-Alferkeria, askoren hondamendia: "Laziness, ruin of many."
-Apirilaren azkenean, hostoa haritz gainean: "At the end of April, the leaves bloom on the oaks."
-Arian, arian, zehetzen da burnia: "Forging, forging, bows to iron."
-Arrats gorri, goiz euri: "Reddish sunset, rainy dawn."
-Asko balio du indarrak, gehiago buru azkarrak: "Strength is worth a lot, plus an intelligent head."
-Aurreak erakusten du atzea nola dantzatu: "The front teaches the back to dance."
-Bakoitzak bere zoroa bizi du: "Each one lives his own madness."
-Besteen falk aurreko aldean, geureak bizkarrean: "The faults of others before us, ours behind us."
-Beste lekuetan ere txakurrak oinutsik ibiltzen will say: «In other places the dogs also walk barefoot» Equivalent in Spanish: «The sun heats the same everywhere»
-Besteren loves, ona; norberea, askoz hobea: «The mother of others, good; own, the best. "
-Bihar ere eguzkia aterako duk: "Tomorrow the sun will also rise."
-Eguneroko izerdia, eguneroko ogia: "The daily sweat, (is) the daily bread."
-Eguzkia eta euria, Erromako zubia: «The sun and the rain, (bring) the rainbow».
-Enbidiosoa, bere etsai osoa: "Envy was its own enemy."
-Entzun eta isil, baiezko borobil: «Listen and be silent, total affirmation.»
-Esandako hitzak lotzeko ez duzu giltzarik topatuko: "You will not find a key that will unite your spoken words."
-Eskuko behatzak ere ez zituen Jainkoak berdinak egin: "God did not make the fingers of the hands equal."
-Gaizki esanak barkatu eta ondo esanak gogoan hartu: "Forgive what was wrongly said and remember what is well said."
Poem in Basque
“Txoriek badute beren aberria: lumajea bezain arina, airea bezain bizigarria, bihotz zintzoa bezain zabala.
Han aurkitzen dute babes sad zein pozik, izuturik zein izurik gabe bizi diren txoriek, handi zein txiki, polit zein itsusi diren txoriek.
Ez dago banderarik aberri horrendous.
Baina kolore guztiak biltzen dira hango zeruan: belearen beltza, usoaren zuria, txantxangorriaren gorria, karnabaren berdea, kanarioaren horia…
Ez dago harresirik aberri horretan, ez kaiolarik, ez eroetxerik, ez kuartelik.
Ez dago ardik aberri horretan, ez eskopetarik, ez fusilik, ez pistolarik.
Askatasunaren herria da.
Gauero egiten dut hartaz amets. "
Translation:
"Birds have their homeland:
light as a feather, vital as air, wide and extensive
like a generous heart.
There they find refuge
all the birds, the sad and the happy, the scared and the fearless, the big and the small, the showy and the ugly.
There are no flags in that country.
But all the colors come together in her sky:
the black of the raven, the white of the dove, the green of the goldfinch, the yellow of the canary, the red of the robin, of course.
There are no walls in that country, no cages, no madhouses, no barracks.
There are no weapons in that country, no shotguns, no rifles, no pistols.
From the book Laino artean zelatari (Spy in the mist). Irún, 1993:
NEVSTKY PERSPECTIVE
1 izatea baino gehiago da bakarrik egotea.
2 izatea baino gehiago, gutxienik.
2 baita interesatzen zaigun guztia.
Eta batzutan bakarrik egoteak esan nahi du
They hit bizi direla multzoak.
Noizbait bakarrik egon denak
Bereaz gain bizi ditu beste bizitzak,
Aspaldiko oihartzunek hartua diote ezaguera, Urrutiko musikak ezkutatzen dira haren bihotzean, Arima lausotzen diote milaka
Jainko ezezagun eta harrizkoren otoitzek.
Noizbait bakarrik egon denak
Bereaz gain ibili ditu beste bideak;
Atsedena bilatu du ilunabar izoztuetan, Ahantziaren iturria goiz-alba loretsuetan, Seguruak, argizko uztaien artean ernalduak.
Badaki zeruertzaren lerroa nahastu egiten dela
Gorputz behin eta berriro maitatu izanarekin.
Ez dagoela beste lurrik atzean geratu dena baino.
Noizbait bakarrik egon dena
Galdu izan da denboraren azpilduretan, Denbora orainaren oroitzapen luze urezkoan, Geure baitan dagoena bildurik eta lo
Hondar aleak esku-kuskuilu batean bezala.
Zeren bakarrik dagoena ez baita inondar.
Geography zaio itsaso ordokiz betea.
Ihesi doa ziurtasunetik, desertore gisa.
Icaro berritua, air auger biluzik hegan.
Baina babestuko lukeen tenplurik aurkitzen ez.
Pentsamenduak gorritzen diren lorebaratzerik ez.
Fedearen begiez ez baitu so egiten.
Jakituna izanik inoiz ez da sentitu arrotz.
Joan-etorri dabil, inora mugitu gabe.
Hitz egiten du hitzik gabe, baina esanez
Den guztia badela eta izango dela
Norberak barruan daramanean.
Bakarrik dagoenarentzako oroitarririk ederrena
Parke abandonatutako banku hutsa.
Umez eta txori erraustuz inguraturik.
NEVSTKY PERSPECTIVE
To be alone means to be more than one, Or at least be more than two
Two being the number that interests the most.
And sometimes being alone means
That crowds coexist in one.
Who has once been alone
He has lived lives other than his own.
Ancient echoes hit your senses.
Far music is hidden in his heart.
And the prayers stir his soul
Of a thousand unknown gods and stone.
Who has once been alone
He has traveled other paths apart from his own;
He has sought rest in frozen sunsets, The fountain of oblivion in flowery dawns, Safe, between arches of light born.
You know the horizon line gets confused
With the body loved again and again.
That there is no more land than what is left behind.
Who has once been alone
It has been lost in the folds of time.
In long memories of the present
That sleeps collected inside us,
Like grains of sand in the shell of the hand.
Because whoever is alone is from nowhere.
Geography is for him an infinite sea.
Run away from certainty, like a deserter.
Icarus renewed, flies naked through the air.
But he does not find a temple to take refuge, No garden where thoughts mature.
He does not look with the eyes of faith.
Being wise he has never felt a foreigner.
It comes and goes, without even moving.
He speaks without speaking, but says
That all that is exists and will exist
When we carry it within us.
The best tribute to the lonely
It is an empty bench in an abandoned park.
Surrounded by children and burned birds.
References
- Juaristi, F. (2014). Poems in Basque with translation into Spanish by the author himself. Current anthology of Spanish poetry. Plural writing / 22. 12-29-2016, from Diariopolitico y literario Website: diariopoliticoyliterario.blogspot.com.
- Basque government. (2012). The Basque language. 12-29-2016, by Eusko Jaurlaritza Website: euskara.euskadi.eus.
- Euskal kultura. (2014). A manual of compliments in Basque. 12-29-2016, from Basque Heritage Elkartea Website: euskalkultura.com.
- Darabuc. (2008). A manual of compliments in Basque. 12-29-2016, from Poems in Euskera Website: arabuc.wordpress.com.
- Garate, G. (1998). Basque proverb. 12-29-2016, from Atzotikzac Website: ametza.com.