Goal: you will say what you like and love.
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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 19. A concert of Georgian songs
In the evening, Nino takes me to a small concert in an old church hall: three men singing in three voices, without instruments. I have never heard anything like it.
Today: "I like" and "I love". They work like "I want".
| Georgian | Pronunciation | English |
|---|---|---|
| მომწონს | momts'ons | I like |
| მოგწონს | mogts'ons | you like |
| მოსწონს | mosts'ons | he, she likes |
| მიყვარს | miq'vars | I love; I like (very much) |
| გიყვარს | giq'vars | you love |
| უყვარს | uq'vars | he, she loves |
| სიმღერა | simghera | song |
| მუსიკა | musik'a | music |
| ცეკვა | tsek'va | dance, dancing |
| კონცერტი | k'ontsert'i | concert |
| ფილმი | pilmi | film |
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.
Like მინდაminda, these verbs show the person at the start, and the thing you like is the subject, in its basic form.
| person | like | love |
|---|---|---|
| I | მომწონსmomts'ons | მიყვარსmiq'vars |
| you (friend) | მოგწონსmogts'ons | გიყვარსgiq'vars |
| he, she | მოსწონსmosts'ons | უყვარსuq'vars |
| we | მოგვწონსmogvts'ons | გვიყვარსgviq'vars |
| you (polite, plural) | მოგწონთmogts'ont | გიყვართgiq'vart |
| they | მოსწონთmosts'ont | უყვართuq'vart |
მომწონსmomts'ons is "I like, I find it nice", often for something you see or try now: a dress, a film, a city. მიყვარსmiq'vars is "I love", for people, but also for things you like a lot, in general: ხინკალი მიყვარსkhink'ali miq'vars, "I love khinkali".
When the thing you like is plural, -თt can appear on the verb for people, but with things the singular is common: ქართული სიმღერები მიყვარსkartuli simgherebi miq'vars, "I love Georgian songs".
მოგწონსmogts'ons? "Do you like it?" გიყვარსgiq'vars? "Do you love it?". The most natural answers: ძალიან მომწონსdzalian momts'ons! or არ მომწონსar momts'ons.
The singing Sam hears is Georgian polyphony, singing in several independent voices. It is one of the treasures of Georgian culture, and UNESCO recognised it in 2001 as a masterpiece of the oral and intangible heritage of humanity. You will read more about it in lesson 176.
მიყვარხარmiq'varkhar means "I love you". It is a different form of the same verb, which you will understand in lesson 101.
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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.
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