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	Georgian	English
#9	Georgian by Anaïs
	sik’vdili usevdianiesi nivti ara. tu qvela mits’is sabanit pardeba, mets minda davparde. magram nivti, romelsats qvela ijarebs, ginda mok’lo, da mits’is sabans angreven. magram, tu isinits ar mok’vdebian, misalebi ar aris.	death is not the saddest thing. if everything is covered by a blanket of earth, i too want to be covered. but you want to kill the thing which everyone believes, and they destroy the blanket of earth. but, if they do not die, it is not acceptable.

Roots:

ar - not
aris - is
=a - alternative form of aris
da - and
isini - they
da=i-jar-eb-s - he/she will believe (1st conjugation)
mo=k’l-av-s - he/she will kill (1st conjugation)
mo=k’vd-eb-a - he/she will die (2nd conjugation doniani)
magram - but
misalebi - acceptable
mits’a - ground
u-nd-a - he/she wants
da=a-ngr-ev-s - he/she will destroy (1st conjugation)
nivti - thing
da=a-par-eb-s - he/she will destroy (1st conjugation)
qvela - everyone
romeli=ts - which (in a relative sense)
sabani - blanket
sevdiani - sad
sikv’dili - death
tu - if

Grammar

Nominal morphology:

-is	genitive (replaces a final “a”)
-it	instrumental
-i	nominative (not present after a vowel)
-s	dative

Adjective morphology:

u- -es

superlative

Verbal morphology:

da=, mo= are preverbs - they don’t appear in present series verbs but do appear in all other series

For all screeves in the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd conjugations, the 1st person subject prefix is v-. the 2nd person subject prefix is null. The 1st person dative prefix is mi-, the 2nd person dative prefix is gi-, the 3rd is u-. In 4th conjugation the subject is marked by the dative endings.

For the present screeve, in the 1st conjugation, the 1st and 2nd persons have a null suffix, the 3rd person singular has a suffix -s, and the 3rd person plural has a suffix -en. In 2nd conjugation, those endings are -i, -a, and -ian respectively.

In present and future series, the subject takes the nominative and the object takes the dative. In aorist series, the subject takes the ergative and the object takes the nominative. The aorist and optative screeves make up the aorist series. The screeve endings are -o -os -on for 1st conjugation and 2nd conjugation iniani verbs, and -e -es -en for 2nd conjugation doniani verbs.

Elements like -eb, -ev, -av are present/future stem formants - they appear in the present and future screeves but not in others.

There are two ways of forming a passive 2nd conjugation verb from a 1st conjugation verb - if the preradical vowel of the 1st conjugation verb is -a-, and the present/future stem formant is -eb, then the verb stem takes a -d afterwards - these are doniani verbs. All other verbs get a preradical vowel -i- (if they don’t already have it) and get the present/future stem formant -eb (if they don’t have it already).