Goal: you will describe a family, its home and its things.
Course progress: lesson 30 / 200
LIMBA audio course · Georgian
This written course gives you the grammar, the words and the script. The LIMBA audio course trains your ear and your mouth: you listen, you repeat, you answer — the perfect complement to these lessons.
Download the Georgian audio courseOrder form · your download link arrives by emailDay 15. Dinner with the whole family
Sunday dinner: the whole family around the table, khinkali steaming in the middle. Manana asks me to describe my own family in Georgian, and everybody listens.
This review lesson brings together unit 3: family, my and your, plurals, adjectives, numbers, age, and "to have".
| Georgian | Pronunciation | English |
|---|---|---|
| როგორია? | rogoria? | what is it like? |
| და-ძმა | da-dzma | brothers and sisters, siblings |
The pronunciation is written in English letters, following Georgia’s official romanization. Say every letter: a as in father, e as in pet, i as in machine, o as in port, u as in rule; r is rolled; g is always hard; kh as in Scottish loch; gh a soft gargled g, like a French r; sh as in shop; zh like the s in pleasure; ch as in church; ts as in cats; dz as in adze; j as in jam. An apostrophe marks a “popped” consonant, said with a little click in the throat and no puff of air: k’, p’, t’, ts’, ch’, q’ (q’ is made deep in the throat). Without an apostrophe, k, p, t, ts, ch have a small puff of air. Use the Pronunciation button at the top to hide or show it.
| topic | example | meaning |
|---|---|---|
| older family + my | დედაჩემიdedachemi | my mother |
| younger family + my | ჩემი ძმაchemi dzma | my brother |
| whose? | ეს ვისია?es visia? | whose is it? |
| plural | ჭიქები, მეგობრებიch'ikebi, megobrebi | glasses, friends |
| number + singular | სამი ჭიქაsami ch'ika | three glasses |
| adjective + noun | ძველი სახლიdzveli sakhli | an old house |
| colour | თეთრი სახლიtetri sakhli | a white house |
| age | ოცი წლის ვარotsi ts'lis var | I'm twenty |
| have (thing) | სახლი მაქვსsakhli makvs | I have a house |
| have (living) | ძმა მყავსdzma mq'avs | I have a brother |
როგორrogor? means "how?", and როგორიაrogoria? is "what is it like?": შენი ოჯახი როგორიაsheni ojakhi rogoria? The answer is an adjective with -აa: დიდიაdidia, პატარააp'at'araa, ლამაზიაlamazia.
20 ოციotsi, 40 ორმოციormotsi, 60 სამოციsamotsi, 80 ოთხმოციotkhmotsi, and -დაda- + 1 to 19 for everything in between: 29 = ოცდაცხრაotsdatskhra, 55 = ორმოცდათხუთმეტიormotsdatkhutmet'i.
და-ძმაda-dzma is a lovely compound: "sister-brother", meaning siblings in general. Georgian likes such pairs: დედ-მამაded-mama (mother and father, parents), ცოლ-ქმარიtsol-kmari (wife and husband, a married couple).
Choose an answer for each question, then press Check my answers. Score 70% or more and the lesson is ticked on your course map.
Well done! Lesson 30 is ticked on your course map.
Say your answer out loud, write it down, then open the model answer.
Lesson finished? Now train your ear
This written course gives you the grammar, the words and the script. The LIMBA audio course trains your ear and your mouth: you listen, you repeat, you answer — the perfect complement to these lessons.
Download the Georgian audio courseOrder form · your download link arrives by email