basti
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Hindi बस्ती (bastī, “settlement”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]basti (plural bastis)
- (India) A slum.
- 1891, Rudyard Kipling, The City Of Dreadful Night:
- There is a dreary bustee in the neighbourhood which is said to make the most of any cholera that may be going.
- 2012, Sarwant Singh, New Mega Trends: Implications for Our Future Lives, page 63:
- With the population growth in the jhopadpattis, favelas, bastis and bidonvilles higher than any other environment in the world, we are seeing the emergence of Megaslums, where one million urban poor live in an area measuring just 1.5 square miles.
- 2023, Radhika Iyengar, Fire on the Ganges, Fourth Estate, page 294:
- Her mother-in-law, in her half-delirious state, was sure that their basti would be broken down and had aggressively begun to push her sons to buy a plot of land elsewhere.
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[edit]Catalan
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[edit]Verb
[edit]basti
- inflection of bastar:
Galician
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[edit]basti
- (reintegrationist norm) inflection of bastir:
Italian
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[edit]Verb
[edit]basti
- inflection of bastare:
Portuguese
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[edit]basti
- inflection of bastir:
Walloon
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old French bastir, from Vulgar Latin *bastīre (“to build; sew”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]basti
Conjugation
[edit]infinitive | basti | ||||||
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gerund | bastixhant | ||||||
auxiliary | aveur | ||||||
past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
singular | basti | basteye | |||||
plural | bastis | basteyes | |||||
singular | plural | ||||||
1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | ||
indicative | dji (dj') | ti (t') | i (il) / ele | dji (dj') / nos | vos | i (il) | |
present | basti or bastixh | bastis or bastixhs | bastit or bastixh | bastixhans | bastixhoz | bastixhnut or bastixhèt | |
imperfect | bastixheu | bastixheus | bastixheut | bastixhéns | bastixhîz | bastixhént | |
preterit | bastixha | bastixhas | bastixha | bastixhîs | bastixhîz | bastixhît | |
future | bastirè or bastixhrè | bastirès or bastixhrès | bastirè or bastixhrè | bastirans or bastixhrans | bastiroz or bastixhroz | bastiront or bastixhront | |
conditional | bastireu | bastireus | bastireut | bastiréns | bastirîz | bastirént | |
subjunctive | ki dj' | ki t' | k' i (il) / k' ele | ki dj' / ki nos | ki vos | k' i (il) | |
present | bastixhe | bastixhes | bastixhe | bastixhanxhe | bastixhoxhe | bastixhnuxhe or bastixhèxhe | |
imperfect | bastixhaxhe | bastixhaxhes | bastixhaxhe | bastixhénxhe | bastixhîxhe | bastixhénxhe | |
imperative | — | ti | — | dji / nos | vos | — | |
affirmative | basti or bastixh | bastixhans | bastixhoz |
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