აგდებს/ყრის

One Object or Many

Level 6Sounds Like agdebs/qʼris

A few Georgian verbs change with the number of things: აგდებს (throws one), ყრის (throws many).

How It Works

English uses throw for one stone or a hundred. Georgian uses two verbs:

MeaningOne thingMany things
throws (present)ქვას აგდებსქვებს ყრის
threw away (past)ჩანთა გადააგდოჟურნალები გადაყარა

Choose the verb by the number of things, not by the number of people: one child can throw stones (ბავშვი ქვებს ყრის), and the verb still ends in -ს for he or she.

A word for a mass of things, such as ნაგავი (trash), takes the many-things verb: ნაგავი გადაყარა (he threw out the trash).

Each verb has its own past and future: აგდებს, გადააგდებს, გადააგდო; ყრის, გადაყრის, გადაყარა.

Putting things down works in a similar way: დადებს is for one thing, and a pile of things is often arranged with დააწყობს. Verbs of sitting do the same with their subject (ზის, სხედან), as you saw at Level 5.

Examples (5)

  1. ბავშვი წყალში ქვას აგდებს.

    The child is throwing a stone into the water.

    One stone: აგდებს.

  2. ბავშვები წყალში ქვებს ყრიან.

    The children are throwing stones into the water.

    Many stones: ყრის, here ყრიან for they.

  3. ძველი ჩანთა გადავაგდე.

    I threw away the old bag.

    One thing: გადავაგდე.

  4. ძველი ჟურნალები გადავყარე.

    I threw out the old magazines.

    Many things: გადავყარე.

  5. ნაგავი ხვალ დილით გადაყარე.

    Take out the trash tomorrow morning.

    Trash is a mass of things, so it takes the many-things verb.

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აგდებს/ყრისLevel 6One Object or Many

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Some verbs change with one object or many.

Words in This Pattern

აგდებსყრისგადააგდებს