( nekea)

[from Lat. "necem" or extraction from "nekatu"] iz.

a. toil, hard work; \neke askoren seme izan da hiztegi hau this dictionary is the product of a lot of hard work; \neke eta izerdiak sweat and toil; geure \nekez eta izerdiaz irabazitakoa galtzeko zorian gauden we are on the verge of losing what we have toiled and sweated for; \neke gogor toilsome work | backbreaking work; \nekearen \nekez from sheer {toil || hard work}; \neke hutsez for nothing

b. ( ahultasuna eta indargabetasuna) weariness, fatigue, exhaustion; bideko \nekeak ahuldurik weakened by the exhausting journey; \nekez lehertu zen he collapsed from exhaustion; \nekez beterik wearily

2. ( jasatea) suffering, sorrow, adversity, affliction; \neke larri {intense || excruciating} suffering; maitasunak dakarzkigun \neke eta atseginak the joys and sorrows that come with love; \nekeetan lagundu to help with one's sorrow | to console; \nekean egon to be bad off | to be in a bad way

a. ( zailtasuna) trouble, difficulty, hardship; \neke gabe lortu zuten they achieved it without any {difficulty || problem} ; \neke handiz hartzen zuen arnasa he had great trouble in breathing; maisu euskaldun berri batzuentzat \neke handia da dena euskaraz ematea for some teachers who learnt Basque as adults it is difficult to teach everything through Basque; \nekea hartu to take the trouble | to go through the trouble ; batzuek ez bezala, euskara ikasteko \nekea hartu nuen unlike others, I went to the trouble of learning Basque ; ingelesez ongi ez dakitenek ere erabil dezakete hiztegi hau, \neke gehixeago hartzen badute those who don't know English very well can also use this dictionary if they go to a little more trouble; \nekearen \nekez atera zen lokatzetik he strained to pull himself out of the mud; \nekeari ihes egin to get around the problem; euskaldun gehienek \nekerik gabe irakur zezaketeen egunkaria behar zuten most Basques needed a newspaper that they could read without much difficulty

b. ( larrialdia) predicament, crisis, distress

c. ( koska, kontua) hor dago \nekea that's the hard part

4. \nekeak [ izen plurala ] fee, compensation, charge; zenbat da zure \nekea? how much is it for your trouble? io. ( neketsua)

1. ( lana) hard, strenuous, exhausting

2. bizimodu \neke hard life

3. ( zaila) hard, difficult; hori \neke zait that's hard for me; \neke da egitea it's hard to do

du/ad.

a. to lighten

b. ardoak burua \arindua with his head buoyed up with wine

2. ( larritasuna kendu)

a. ( mina) to ease, relieve, alleviate

b. ( nekea) to lessen, ease, alleviate

c. ( zama) to lighten, ease, lessen

d. ( lege) to attenuate, dilute, water down, make... less strict

e. ( egoera) to ease, mitigate

3. ( pausoak) to quicken

4. ( gorputza) to slim down da/ad. to relieve o.s.; \arindu naiz ardura handi batetik I' ve relieved myself from a great responsibility

iz.

1. ending, end; filmaren \bukaera oso tristea izan zen the end of the film was sad

2. (amaiera) end; munduaren \bukaera izugarria izango da the end of the world will be terrible; hasieratik \bukaeraraino from beginning to end; \bukaera txarra izan zuen he had a terrible ending; e-i \bukaera eman to finish sth up; \bukaerarik ez duen nekea never ending toil

3. Kim. end, termination; \bukaera hidrofiliko hydrophilic end

( du/ad.)

1. [ -z ] to regret; \damu izan dute ezin janaz they regret not being able to eat; \damu izan izango dute hura erosiaz they'll regret having bought it

2. [e-r] to regret; ez dut \damu izan hartu nuen nekea I don't regret the trouble I went to

3. to repent, regret; \damu izan dut haiek mindu izana I regret having hurt them; dolu eta \damu izan dut zure kontra hori egin izana I lament and regret having gone against you

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1. to be {lamentable || deplorable}

2. [ zaio ] to regret; egunen batean \damu izanko zaio he'll regret it some day

iz.

a. ( oro.) work; etxean zer \lan egiten duzu? what work do you do at home?; irakasleei \lana errazteko in order to make the work easy for teachers; irakurleei \lana errazteko to make it easy for readers; esku\lan handy work; gaueko \lan i. night work ii. ( oro.) Lagunart. smuggling; taldeko \lan team work, group work; \lan arin light work; \lan aspergarri {boring || tedious} work; \lan handi a lot of work; \lan nekagarri {tiresome || wearisome} work, backbreaking work; \lan xehe menial work; \lan zail painstaking work; \lan eta \lan ari da he's working his tail off; \lanean ari dira they're working; \lanean hasi zen he started working; \lanean leher egin to work one's {head || tail} off | to work o.s. to death

b. ( nekea) toil, labour (GB), labor (USA) ; forced labor (USA) ; \lan behartu forced labour (GB), forced labor (USA)

c. (esa.) hau \lana! what a bother! (GB) | how terrible! | what a bummer! (USA) Argot. ; ez naiz mutil ederra, hau \lana! I'm not a handsome boy, {what a bother || what luck!}!; \lan eta \lan beti always working and working

d. [ izenen aurrean ] work-; \lan-talde work group; \lan-tresnak work tools

a. ( lan egitea) work; \lanaren bila dabil he's looking for work; \lanera joan to go to work; \lanetik bizi behar da you have to live from working; \lanetik etxera joan to go from work to home; \lanik eza lack of work; \lanik gabekoak the jobless; ongi \\ gaizki saritutako \lana well-paid \\ poorly paid work

b. [ izenen aurrean ] work, working; \lan-orduak working hours

c. baserri-\lanetan ari da he's doing farm work

d. (esa.) \lan lasterra, \lan alferra (atsot.) haste makes waste (atsot.)

3. ( \lan bat, \lana)

a. ( lanpostua) job; i-i \lana eman to give sb a job | to employ sb; \lana utzi zuen he quit his job; \lan bat hasi to start a job; etxez etxe saltzen ibiltzea da bere \lana his job is going around and selling door to door

b. ( eginkizuna) task, job, assignment

4. (Pol.) (Ind.)

a. labour (GB), labor (USA) ; labour; kapitala eta \lana capital and labour; \lanaren irabaziak earnings from labour

b. [ izenen aurrean ] labour- (GB), labor- (USA) ; \lan arazoak labour problems; \lan-banaketa division of labour; \lan hitzarmenak labour agreements; L\lan Ministeritza i. Ministry of Labour ii. (USA) Department of Labor

5. ( obra)

a. work; I. Kant-en \lan hautatuak selected works of I. Kant; Goethe-ren L\lan Guztiak the Complete Works of Goethe; haren azken \lana irakurri nahi dut I want to read his latest work

b. (Arteg.) zur-\lan wood work; har-\lan stone work

6. \lanak [ izen plurala ] works; herri-\lanak public works

7. ( naturako indarrari d.) force; uraren \lanaren ondorioak the effects of the force of water; pozoiak bere \lan egin zuen the poison took effect

8. Fis. work; \lana kilogrametan neurtuta work measured in kilograms

9. ( zailtasuna) sinesteak \lana du it's hard to believe; \lanak eman zizkidan hori egiteak it was hard for me to do that; \lanak izango dituk hori egiteko it'll be hard for you to do that

10. ( kaltea) \lanean ezartzen nauzu you're putting me in a bind

11. Nekaz. early wheat harvest

iz. ( oinazea,nekea) suffering; barauak eta gorputzaren \penagarriak fasts and bodily suffering io.

1. ( nekosoa) difficult, hard; lan \penagarria painstaking work

2. ( triste) sad, deplorable; egoera \penagarria deplorable situation; \penagarria da hainbeste bidegabekeria ikustea it is sad to see so much injustice; benetan \penagarria da it's a crying shame

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