Basque has a fairly large number of compound verbs of a type also known as light verb constructions, consisting of two parts.
In synthetically conjugated light-verb constructions such as bizi naiz 'I live' or maite dut 'I love', care must be taken not to confuse the light verb (naiz, dut..) with tense auxiliaries; bizi naiz and maite dut are simple present forms, for example.