{"id":24674,"date":"2023-06-12T12:27:45","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T10:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jezykikaukazu.pl\/?p=24674"},"modified":"2023-09-14T17:58:09","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T15:58:09","slug":"how-to-create-aorist-past-simple-in-georgian-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jezykikaukazu.pl\/en\/how-to-create-aorist-past-simple-in-georgian-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"How to create aorist (past simple) in Georgian? Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Aorist in Georgian \u2013 how to use it, create it and which cases to use for it? This post is all about the topic and we focus on verbs like do and work. Check it out!<\/p>

Let\u2019s start with explanation about the naming convention of this form. The linguistic English name that is often used is aorist for this form of verb. It is not exactly like past simple in English, but if you are at the beginning of your journey with Georgian and not linguistics professional the assumption that this form of the verb is quite similar to past simple may be of help.<\/p>

Once we have this settled, let\u2019s now dive into another topic. There are two forms of past tense in Georgian language: imperfect (similar to past continuous, \u10e3\u10ec\u10e7\u10d5\u10d4\u10e2\u10d4\u10da\u10d8 \u10ec\u10d0\u10e0\u10e1\u10e3\u10da\u10d8 \u10d3\u10e0\u10dd) and aorist (similar to past simple, \u10ec\u10e7\u10d5\u10d4\u10e2\u10d8\u10da\u10d8 \u10ec\u10d0\u10e0\u10e1\u10e3\u10da\u10d8 \u10d3\u10e0\u10dd). The first one, imperfect, was already described in detail in this article,<\/a> so you can come back to it once finished with this one. Today we focus on the aorist part.<\/p>

Additionally, if you want to start with more general view on Georgian tenses and verb forms, this article will be of use for you.<\/a><\/p>

You may already know that Georgian verbs have a few groups of conjugation that is why today we\u2019ll just focus on two of them: work\/live type and do\/spend time ones.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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When to use aorist in Georgian?<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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I will just start with the good news. Especially at the beginning of your study of Georgian language you may assume that in many situations you use it exactly as past simple. Any actions that were already done and completed, will be used in aorist form. So actions in past that were not continuous, but done. The same if we want to ask if someone has already done something will be in aorist form.<\/p>

It\u2019s worth to remember that some verbs, e.g. to be or to have stay in just one past form, no matter if it was imperfect or aorist. From the meaning of the verb standpoint it is impossible to distinguish whether that was a continuous action or on completed in the past. For example: I had this book.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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How to conjugate the Georgian verbs in aorist?<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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In this very post we focus on 2 types of verbs: live, work and do, spend time. In both cases the starting point is their form in future tense<\/a>. Let\u2019s then start with th first group:<\/p>