adibide

Adibide is a Basque noun meaning “example” or “instance used to illustrate a point.” It is a common term in education, writing, and everyday speech, where it helps to clarify or support statements by showing a concrete instance.

The base form is adibide; the plural is adibideak. The possessive or genitive form is adibidearen, used to mean “the example’s” or “of the example.” Basque generally marks number and definiteness through suffixes rather than separate articles, so adibideak (the examples) and adibidearen (of the example) are the usual forms encountered in texts.

Usage and related expressions: adibide is used to introduce a concrete illustration, much like the English word “example.” Basque also uses adibidez, meaning “for example” or “for instance,” which functions similarly to the English phrase and is closely related to adibide in meaning. A typical sentence is Adibide bat emango dut, meaning “I will give one example.” In discussing multiple cases, one might say Adibideak aztertzen ditugu, “We examine the examples.”

Etymology and status: the exact origin of adibide is not definitively established in Basque etymology references. As a fundamental noun in the Basque lexicon, it is widely used across dialects and registers, from classroom explanations to formal writing.