neke

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

1.

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

3.

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