I'm looking for recommendations to help learn the Georgian script. For some reason I can't grasp it... It was much easier to learn and memorize kana, devanagari, for me than Georgian. For some reason it doesn't feel very intuitive, but it looks beautiful and I'm very interested in learning more about Kartvelian languages. Anything at all would be a help!

Gamarjoba everyone!

I have a very tiny question, how would one say “close to” or “next to” in georgian? I use taxis a lot and a lot of the times i find myself explaining where to go using “akhlos” (found it on google) for example: akhlos metro sadguri tavisuplebis moedani, meaning close to the liberty square metro station. Are there any better words to describe? If so please let me know.

Madloba didi

Can anyone tell me ? Thank you !

გამარჯობა მეგობრებო! Currently I am plowing through verbs and related grammar and have come to the problem of having almost no resources or explanations on forming 3rd series and although I get what ideas are expressed I can't really find resources or explanations, hence I'd fancy if any of you showed me any or explained, and by that I mean forming the 3rd series with each verb type. Am very grateful in advance.

Hey Guys. Can someone Tell me what Form this Word is?

BC -ისას ending IS weird. IS IT a noun or a Verb? Thx.

Yeah this Word makes me questiom a lot

Hello, I'm confused about conjugating V. სირბილი and not sure what case should be used here?

შუადღე პარკში დავრბივარ OR შუადღეს პარკში დავრბივარ

I'm sill not used to identifying the cases if this is supposed to be Nominative or Dative "შუადღეს"? or am I doing something wrong here? because when I wanted to double check my sentence in Google translation it was "შუადღისას" and not შუადღეს or შუადღე

Can anybody try to translate this handwriting?

I know it's related to the Georgian word for "victory"/"success", but more specifically? Is გამარჯობა some kind of verb conjugated for imperative (aka "be successful/victorious")? Or some sort of subjunctive/volitional ("may you be successful")? Something else?

I really want to learn how modern Georgian came to be. about changes in it's grammar and vocabulary and what it's earliest form was like. Is there any book or something to fit my interest?

For context, I asked a random Georgian customer at work what he was looking at and he showed me this on his phone. I think it's the name of the movie with the trailer. If anyone knows a link to the movie I'd be thankful.

sorta a stupid question but what alphabet to Georgians use day to day and do they ever use the other ones ?

As the title says.

I read in the news about the new law, and on one of the posters plastered up in Georgia it mentions the following:

ნაცმოძრაობა, ნაცმედია

My question is, what does this prefix mean here? ნაციონალური, ნაცვალი? Would ნაცმოძრაობა be translated as national movement or movement of change, or what is it?

hi! i originally posted this in a language learning subreddit but they recommended that i post here, so i copy and pasted the post so please disregard any contextual discrepancies as this was originally meant for a different subreddit! i’ve been thinking about trying to learn georgian for a little while, even if just the basics, as my partner has georgian family and they all speak georgian either fluently or semi fluently (they did not all grow up/live there). their family often speak georgian at home and try to get me to pick up on a few words here and there, but i wouldn’t be anywhere close to being able to form sentences or anything. now and then one of their family members will ask me how my understanding is coming along, if i can pronounce a certain word, or know its meaning, or if im starting to learn any better, and i feel disappointed in the answer generally being no. i’ve been wanting to try to properly learn some basics of the language but georgian is not on duolingo (which is very disappointing) and im unaware of any other reputable, accessible or good quality learning resources for the georgian language. without having the option to use such an accessible resource it feels beyond overwhelming just knowing where to start and so i have wound up just putting it off and off forever because i don’t even know where to begin. i am dyslexic and autistic amongst other things and i find learning languages from scratch especially from books incredibly difficult. i find duolingo is an ideal resource for me because whilst it has its limitations, its interactive, the lessons are short and easy to understand, unlike a book it is not two dimensional in the sense that it teaches me on more levels than just reading (which would be especially important in my view for a language such as georgian which has its own alphabet) and in general i find that it’s a learning method that actually works for me, which can be difficult to find due to my neurodiversity. this is probably a long shot as at least where i am georgian speakers can be few and far to say the least, but does anybody know of any decent resources for learning georgian that they can recommend that are ideally friendly for people with learning difficulties or even just relatively easy to use/understand and an effective way to learn? i know that the obvious thing to do would be ask their family but especially due to my autism and difficulties with picking up languages let alone such a different one than my own i would not feel confident asking them for help/ would feel more able to learn by doing so in private without stress/pressure (that i would create in my own mind, not from them!) or their knowledge at least until i felt like i had some basic foundations laid. in addition to my previously mentioned learning difficulties i struggle badly with anxiety and when they ask me about/test my understanding or pronounciayion i feel anxious and put on the spot and almost like performance anxiety, so i would love to build my confidence with the language by myself, hopefully eventually i will overcome this and be able to seek their help for furthering my understanding, maybe i could even one day get to a point where i could understand/speak well enough to join on one of their visits to their family in georgia eventually. i hope somebody might have some leads if anybody has made it through my ramble! thank you!

Can someone Break IT down and also Tell me the "Infinitive Form" of IT? Thx

Hey Guys, does anyone know what the "Infinitiv" of this verb is? If thats a Verb at all haha. Or is it a noun?

Thanks

Hello! I am very interested if there is some Georgian language speaking club in NYC? I live in Brooklyn and am learning Georgian more than 1 year. I would like to have some practice and meet new people

Motion verbs are special in Georgian, as in other languages. Attempting to conjugate them I noticed there are two types; the ones that conjugate with -ვა/ვიდა as future/aorist markers, and those with -ივლის/იარა. As for the different verbs using them, I figured it was only დადის which used the second, with all other preverbs using the first.

However, it appears that any preverb can be conjugated with in both ways, as I checked on translate.ge and from kartuliena.ge's conjugations of მიდის and დადის.

Now my question is, what is the difference between the two conjugations? Is there a difference in meaning? A difference in the manner of movement? Are they both used today, and if so, how frequently in relation to eachother?

I was reading, going through Hewitt's 'A Learner's Grammar', and reached the part where he demonstrates telling of time (lesson 2, p.31) and I became a little confused and wondered if you could help me out.

It's specifically about the, what I call, 'Half Dilemma', but also some other things. Examples:

შვიდის ნახევარია.

ოთხის თხუთმეტზე.

რვის ნახევარზე.

In the book he lists these as:

It's half past six.

At 15 minutes past three.

At half past seven.

I am confused. Does the 'ნახევარი' refer to the half hour AFTER the full hour, or BEFORE?

Another example:

ხუთის ნახევარზე.

ექვსის ნახევარია.

In my language, we would say 'half five' and mean half past four for example, thereby the confusion I have.

In conclusion, I just want to find out how to tell the damn time correctly. Can anyone help out?

EDIT: Anyone reading this in the future, all of my confusion here stemmed from the fact that I couldn't accept that Georgian would constantly look towards the next hour. 11:01 would be თორმეტის ერთი. In my own language, and many others, this would be expressed as 'one past eleven', 'one over eleven', but not in Georgian. Always a forward striving people!

Salami. I would like to work as a nurse assistant in this hospital. I had experience with procedures in other hospitals and can fairly understand instructions in Georgian. I would like to ask my senior nurse that I have been working with. How do I go about it in Georgian?

Hello! Is there any equivalent of google translate that has the option to read in georgian? What do you use? I'm sorry if this question was already asked but i couldn't find it. Thank you!

I just wanted to make sure, but why can it be okay to omit the copula არის in a sentence?

Example:

საქართველო სახელმწიფო კავკასიაში

This is the introduction of Georgia on the Georgian Wikipedia so it is a possible sentence. Though, is it something that can be done casually, or this just a formality of writing an article? What is the effect of it? When is it done?

Hey anyone,

Can someone Tell me which tense/screeve that is. Also which Type of conjugation IS. Also whats the 3rd Person Singular Presens Form of that verb?

I Hope i didnt ASK to much haha. Im Just interested and also confused about this Word

Thx

Gamarjoba People,

How do you Guys read the time? Bc some Germans (im German native speaker) using the 24 hours system

But in english, ITS Just 12 hours system (e.g. 1 PM , 2 am ect...)

So which system do you use when Reading the time?

Madloba

Currently live in America and want to try to learn Georgian. What is the best way for me to learn it. Is there a specific text book, app, website, or anything I should try. I don’t have access to any people who speak Georgian so it would be me studying on my own.

I've been studying Georgian for a while now and apart from learning new vocabulary, it seems to me that verbs are the hardest thing to feel comfortable with.

Do infinitive verb forms really not give any hints of how to conjugate them?

გამარჯობა — დახმარება მჭირდება. How to say happy belated birthday in Georgian? დაგვიანებით გილოცავ დაბადების დღეს? მერე გვიანი გილიცავ დაბადების დღეს?

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