eduki: daukat / daukazu / dauka

eduki (to have, to hold, to keep) has its own one-word present:

• daukat I have, daukazu you have, dauka he, she or it has
• daukagu we have, daukazue you (plural) have, daukate they have

Several things. When what you have is plural, a -z- appears: dauzkat, dauzkazu, dauzka, dauzkagu, dauzkazue, dauzkate. Bi seme dauzkagu (We have two sons). This matches ukan's ditut; see ukan plural object: ditut, dituzu, ditu.

eduki or ukan? Both mean to have: Galdera bat daukat means the same as Galdera bat dut. In the Southern Basque Country (the Spanish side), speakers often use eduki for things they own or hold. ukan is used everywhere and is the usual choice in formal writing. See ukan present: dut, duzu, du.

Holding and keeping. eduki also means to hold something, or to keep it in a place or state: Zer daukazu eskuan? (What have you got in your hand?), Autoa garajean daukat (I keep the car in the garage).

The owner takes -k. eduki is transitive, so a noun or pronoun owner takes the ergative: Nik ez daukat, Anek etxe polita dauka. See ergative -k.

Only a main verb. ukan also works as the helper verb of other verbs (ikusi dut, erosten dut). eduki never does. Negatives and short answers follow the usual rules: Ez daukat (I do not have it), Bai, badaukat (Yes, I have it). See affirmative ba-. The past forms, such as neukan, come in jakin and eduki past: nekien, neukan.