beste

Other: Beste

Level 2

beste + noun + bat = another: beste kafe bat (another coffee). beste + noun + article = the other: beste etxea (the other house). Without a noun: bestea, besteak.

How It Works

Before the noun. Adjectives follow the noun (etxe handi bat), but beste goes first: beste etxe bat. The article or bat still comes at the end of the whole phrase: beste etxe handi bat (another big house).

Meaning depends on what closes the phrase.

  • beste ... bat: another. Beste kafe bat, mesedez.
  • beste ... -a: the other. beste aldea (the other side)
  • beste ... -ak: the other ones. beste ikasleak (the other students)
  • beste + number: more. beste bi egun (two more days)
  • beste ... batzuk: some other. beste lagun batzuk

On its own. bestea (the other one), besteak (the others), beste bat (another one), beste batzuk (some others). It takes endings like any noun phrase: besteari, besteekin, besteen. Hau ez, bestea! (Not this one, the other one!)

With indefinite words. beste also comes before words like zerbait and inor: beste zerbait (something else), beste nonbait (somewhere else), Ez dago beste inor (There is nobody else). See norbait, zerbait, nonbait, noizbait and inor, ezer, inon, inoiz.

Examples (6)

  1. Beste kafe bat, mesedez.

    Another coffee, please.

  2. Beste egun batean hitz egingo dugu.

    We will talk another day.

  3. Hau ez, bestea nahi dut.

    Not this one, I want the other one.

    Alone, beste takes the article: bestea.

  4. Beste ikasleak etxera joan dira.

    The other students have gone home.

  5. Beste bi egun geratuko gara.

    We will stay two more days.

    With a number, beste means more.

  6. Besteekin afalduko dut.

    I will have dinner with the others.

Common Mistakes

  • Putting beste after the noun.

    Etxe beste bat erosi dute.
    Beste etxe bat erosi dute.

    beste always comes before the noun, unlike ordinary adjectives.

  • Using beste alone without the article.

    Hau ez, beste nahi dut.
    Hau ez, bestea nahi dut.

    Without a noun, beste needs the article to mean the other one: bestea.

  • Putting the article on beste as well as on the noun.

    Bestea etxea handiagoa da.
    Beste etxea handiagoa da.

    The article goes only at the end of the phrase, on the noun: beste etxea.

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