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| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 4952 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes  Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 41 of 758 07 February 2012 at 12:29am | IP Logged | |||||||||||
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Ah I'm familiar with those constructions you mentioned Tixhiidon =D We should also include "mi piace", "ça m'ennuie" and some others. Now it's clear that 'need' behaves just like 'have' which I knew from looking up back at Kiziria's. And the verb ending in -a is third person form, not the nominal forms i've spotted earlier.
What I need to work out are the object prefixes. I'm not in a hurry for learning grammar, though, as it's part of the fun. I want to have a solid vocabulary so I can study grammar in depth. If I read a complete linguistical review on Georgian, I'm gonna be like 'the mistery is gone' and won't try so hard on dialogues. Go figure! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 4952 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 42 of 758 07 February 2012 at 10:07pm | IP Logged | |||||||||||
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ზაფხულში სასეირნოდ მივდივართ. We like to go for a walk in summer. What does სასეირნოდ actually mean? Is it optative? Verbal noun? I assume there is no verb 'like' in the Georgian translation either. Kiziria's 07 თქვენ ბინას აქირავებთ? It seems აქირავებთ is the same verb to rent, but which tense? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| TixhiiDon Tetraglot Senior Member Japan Joined 5250 days ago 772 posts - 1474 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese, German, Russian Studies: Georgian | Message 43 of 758 07 February 2012 at 11:12pm | IP Logged | |||||||||||
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აქირავებთ is the future tense of ქირაობს "rent", which is a Class III verb.
As for სასეირნოდ, it's a kind of adverb, I guess, meaning "in order to" or "for", and formed (I think) by adding სა and დ respectively to either end of the verbal noun. However, I'm not 100% sure about this... I need to check Aronson. And yes, there is no verb "like" in the sentence. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 4952 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 44 of 758 08 February 2012 at 1:06am | IP Logged | |||||||||||
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After looking at the preview of Lehrbuch der Georgischen Sprache and searching for Basic Georgian by LINCOM once again, I felt eager for more resources. Soonly, though, I realized that was nonsense and I've decided I'm gonna stick to what I have right now and I will not worry about resources for beginners anymore, especially since I have enough resources on Aronson, Tschenkeli, Continuing Course and a Newspaper Reader to continue as an intermediate learner rightafter.
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| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 4952 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 45 of 758 08 February 2012 at 10:09pm | IP Logged | |||||||||||
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ჩვენ სასტუმრო ოთახში მივდივათ. We are going to the living room. In Georgia, the living room is actually the "guests' room", right? Kiziria's 08 a) ინებეთ translates as 'here you are', but how exactly is if formed? Looks like a future tense. b) I know that დროებით means temporarily, but how is it formed? Just plural, instrumental? c) I learned about the -iani ending. What's the difference between those two? შაქრიანი ყავა შაქრით ყავა Loads of grammar at today's lesson. If I were Kiziria, I'd have taught only the future at this lesson and write another lesson with vocabulary and situations for teaching the imperfect properly. This way, the imperfect was reduced to a few lines. =========== Yesterday I had a look at the Georgian Newspaper Reader and it's a very valuable resource. 40 chapters, some with 3-4 texts on wide ranges of Georgian life. All texts have their vocabulary translated AND explained (verbal forms and such) as well as an accurate English translation. I plan to use it as an accompanying source once I'm done with book2 (or maybe earlier, as book2 is supposed to take me 100 days!). I think that by combining extensive grammar from Aronson and a reading knowledge I may end up with a solid Georgian background for doing actual language usage afterwards. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| zecchino1991 Senior Member United States facebook.com/amyybur Joined 5044 days ago 778 posts - 885 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, Modern Hebrew, Russian, Arabic (Written), Romanian, Icelandic, Georgian | Message 46 of 758 08 February 2012 at 11:07pm | IP Logged | |||||||||||
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I don't think inebet is future tense, I think it's aorist which can also be used to give commands.
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| Murdoc Triglot Senior Member Georgia Joined 5040 days ago 113 posts - 208 votes Speaks: Georgian*, English, Russian | Message 47 of 758 09 February 2012 at 7:25pm | IP Logged | |||||||||||
"Living room" is called "სასტუმრო ოთახი" simply because it's where you bring and host your guests when they visit you.
The root word for "ინებეთ" is "ნება" which means "will". so "ინებეთ" literally translates like: "Have a will." I don't know about grammatical aspects of it.
I think it's formed from "დროება" which means "the times".
We usually say "ყავა შაქრით", which basically implies that sugar has been added to the coffee. "შაქრიანი ყავა" is not used much, but If you were to use it, I think it would more describe a coffee that contains sugar with it without the need to add some. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 4952 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 48 of 758 09 February 2012 at 8:45pm | IP Logged | |||||||||||
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Thanks Murdoc, clarified!
=========== book02 18 დღეს ბინას ვალაგებთ. We are cleaning the apartment today. მე ვწმენდ აბაზანას. I am cleaning the bathroom. What's the difference in meaning between ვალაგებთ and ვწმენდ? They seem to be different verbs translating the English 'to clean'. ბავშვები საბავშვო ოთახს ალაგებენ. The children are cleaning up the children's room. What does საბავშვო mean? Kiziria's 09 Perhaps the most interesting lesson so far! 4th conjugation is irregular, but it's not that hard to get used to putting subject in dative and object in nominative. Now I feel I'm really speaking Georgian! Besides, the verbs introduced are all useful ones. So, I think I can express more feelings now. მე ბევრი მეგობარი მყავს! მე მანქანა არა მყავს... Edited by Expugnator on 09 February 2012 at 9:33pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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