Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5167 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian
| Message 57 of 758 10 February 2012 at 10:07pm | IP Logged |
Book2 19
რისი მომზადება გინდა დღეს? What do you want to cook today?
Which tense is მომზადება? Or is it verbal noun?
დავჭრა ხახვი? Shall I cut the onions?
I know that ხახვი means onion, but I don't get how this "shall i cut" is rendered. Again, which verbal form?
Kiziria's 10
I still have some exercises to finish for this lesson, but let's go. I didn't appreciate much the way all the interrogative and relative pronouns where introduced. I think it turned out quite messy.
ქველაფერი, რაც ქეთინომ თქვა, მართალია. Everything that Ketino said is true.
Now, I see that Ketino is in a different case. Is it the ergative? Is the verb to say a 4th conjugation verb? I see this is a more advanced grammar topic now.
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TixhiiDon Tetraglot Senior Member Japan Joined 5465 days ago 772 posts - 1474 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese, German, Russian Studies: Georgian
| Message 58 of 758 10 February 2012 at 11:08pm | IP Logged |
Expugnator wrote:
Book2 19
რისი მომზადება გინდა დღეს? What do you want to cook today?
Which tense is მომზადება? Or is it verbal noun? |
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It's the verbal noun for მოამზადებს
Expugnator wrote:
დავჭრა ხახვი? Shall I cut the onions?
I know that ხახვი means onion, but I don't get how this "shall i cut" is rendered.
Again, which verbal form? |
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It's the optative form, which has quite a few uses, and here means "Shall I cut?" The
3rd person future tense is დაჭრის
Expugnator wrote:
ქველაფერი, რაც ქეთინომ თქვა, მართალია. Everything that Ketino
said is true.
Now, I see that Ketino is in a different case. Is it the ergative? Is the verb to say a
4th conjugation verb? I see this is a more advanced grammar topic now. |
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Yes, it's the ergative case. "Say" is not 4th conjugation, but is highly irregular.
You need to learn all the tenses and forms pretty much one by one.
By the way, it's ყველაფერი.
Edited by TixhiiDon on 10 February 2012 at 11:08pm
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zecchino1991 Senior Member United States facebook.com/amyybur Joined 5259 days ago 778 posts - 885 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, Modern Hebrew, Russian, Arabic (Written), Romanian, Icelandic, Georgian
| Message 59 of 758 12 February 2012 at 4:09am | IP Logged |
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თქვენ ბინას აქირავებთ?
It seems აქირავებთ is the same verb to rent, but which tense? |
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Why isn't it "iqiravebt"?
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TixhiiDon Tetraglot Senior Member Japan Joined 5465 days ago 772 posts - 1474 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese, German, Russian Studies: Georgian
| Message 60 of 758 12 February 2012 at 7:00am | IP Logged |
I didn't notice that. It certainly should be iqiravebT.
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Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5167 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian
| Message 61 of 758 12 February 2012 at 9:56pm | IP Logged |
Sorry for the typos guys, it's just that I use Google qwerty keyboard and when I type q I get ქ and ყ when I type y, so I still need to get totally used.
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zecchino1991 Senior Member United States facebook.com/amyybur Joined 5259 days ago 778 posts - 885 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, Modern Hebrew, Russian, Arabic (Written), Romanian, Icelandic, Georgian
| Message 62 of 758 12 February 2012 at 10:22pm | IP Logged |
No the problem was that it says "Aqiravebt" with an ა. When people write q it usually means ქ. So that part's
ok. Maybe we should all just start writing in Georgian letters haha..
Edited by zecchino1991 on 12 February 2012 at 10:24pm
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Murdoc Triglot Senior Member Georgia Joined 5255 days ago 113 posts - 208 votes Speaks: Georgian*, English, Russian
| Message 63 of 758 12 February 2012 at 10:30pm | IP Logged |
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Depends what you wanna say.
თქვენ ბინას აქირავებთ? means "Are you renting a flat out"?
თქვენ ბინას იქირავებთ? – Will you rent a flat?
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Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5167 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian
| Message 64 of 758 14 February 2012 at 2:01am | IP Logged |
book2 20
This is about "small talk". Book2 translates it as პატარა დიალოგი. I'm afraid this is a literal translation. Is it correct? What would be a proper translation for the concept of "small talk"?
მყუდროდ მოეწყვეთ! - Make yourself comfortable.
Which tense is მოეწყვეთ?
რას დალევთ? What would you like to drink?
Is დალევთ future tense?
გიყვართ კონცერტზე სიარული? - Do you like to go to concerts?
It seems Georgian uses a different verb in these situations, სიარული translates as walk, so it's more like "do you like walking on concerts...
Kiziria's 11
A tough lesson with optative being introduced. I don't like lessons on recipes that much - it was a recipe lesson that made me quit Hewitt's book. Still, I managed to survive. The optative allows us to convey a lot of meanings in Georgian, it is a pretty useful mood.
Let me see if I understood something: when you use the optative for an invitation, in the sense of "Let's", you may - or may not - add the მოდი(თ) (imperative?) before the optative. The optative, though, should always be in the 1st plural - ჩვენ form, with ვ- and -თ, regardless whether you're calling that person შენ or თქვენ...Is it so?
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