gamarjoba -- Hello
dila mshvidobisa -- Good morning
sagamo mshvidobisa -- Good evening
game mshvidobisa -- Good night
nakhvamdis -- Goodbye
tu sheidzleba -- Please
gmadlobt -- Thank you
didi madloba -- Many thanks
diakh -- Yes (polite form)
ki -- Yeah (neutral)
ho -- Yes (informal)
ara -- No
bodishi -- Sorry
rogora khar? -- How are you?
ukatsravad -- Excuse me
bodishi -- Sorry
ar mesmis -- I dont understand
sad aris…? -- Where is…?
kucha... -- Street
gamziri -- avenue (Rustavelis gamziri = Rustaveli Avenue)
moedani --square (tavisuplebis moedani = Freedom Square)
rodis? -- When?
vin? -- Who?
ra? -- What?
rogor? -- How?
ratom? -- Why?
ra ghirs…? -- How much is…? (one of those phrases it’s worth knowing, even if you can never understand the reply)
puli -- money
Lari -- the Georgian currency: 1 lari=100 tetri
ver gavige -- I don’t understand
ingliseli/amerikeli var -- I am English/American
es lamazia -- This is beautiful
dzalian -- Very
…minda -- I want…
…ginda? -- Do you want…?
…unda -- She wants…
…gvinda -- We want
didi -- Big
p’atara -- Small
ch’q’ara -- Quickly
ts’ota -- Few/a little
dzalian bevri -- Too much
romeli saatia? -- What time is it?
shvid-i saat-i-a -- ’It is 7.00.’
sastumro -- hotel
stumari -- guest (this is what we are: guests, the Georgians say, come from the God, so this is a word to remember if you are badly treated)
ts’eli -- year
tve -- month
k’vira -- week
dghe/dghes -- day/today
khval -- tomorrow
zeg -- day after tomorrow
gushin -- yesterday
saati -- hour (also time/watch)
tsuti -- minute
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katsi -- man
qali -- woman
gogo -- girl
bichi -- boy
bavshvi -- child
me -- I
shen, tkven -- you (tkven = formal polite form)
is -- he, she, it
chven -- we
tkven -- you
isini -- they
lamazi -- nice, beautiful
guli - heart
tetri -- white
shavi -- black
tsiteli -- red
kviteli -- yellow
kavisferi -- brown
lurji -- blue
Food:
supra - feast
tamada -- toast master at a table
gaumarjos! -- Cheers!
tsq’ali -- water
ludi -- beer
ghvino -- wine [shavi = red [lit: black]; tetri = white]
araq’i -- vodka (the evil Georgian homebrew version)
p’uri -- bread
kveli -- cheese (mariliani = salty, umarilo = without salt, naklebad mariliani -- less salty)
khachapuri -- the national dish - bread with cheese filling)
iapi -- cheap
dzviri -- expensive
Numbers:
1 erti
2 ori
3 sami
4 otkhi
5 khuti
6 ekvsi
7 shvidi
8 rva
9 tskhra
10 ati
20 oci
100 asi
Ordinal numbers are formed by adding me- — -e to the last element of the numeral, as in this example, first is exception
1st -- pirveli
2nd -- meore
3rd --- me-sam-e
kvira -- Sunday
orshabati -- Monday
samshabati -- Tuesday
otkhshabati -- Wednesday
khutshabati -- Thursday
paraskevi -- Friday
shabati -- Saturday
gaacheret! -- Stop here!
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