გაუმარჯოს

Cheers and Long Live

Level 3Sounds Like gaumarjos

გაუმარჯოს is a toast that means long live or to, with the person or thing in the dative.

How It Works

ToastMeaning
გაუმარჯოს (gaumarjos)!Cheers! Long live!
გაგიმარჯოს!To you! (and the reply to გამარჯობა)
გაგიმარჯოთ!To you all! To you, said politely.
გაგვიმარჯოს!To us!

At a სუფრა (feast), the თამადა (toastmaster) gives the toasts, and each one ends with გაუმარჯოს: ბებიას გაუმარჯოს! (to Grandma!), ახალგაზრდებს გაუმარჯოს! (to the young people!)

Whoever you toast stands in the dative, because the wish is for them.

When a guest takes up the toast after the თამადა, they often say a few words of their own and end with the same გაუმარჯოს.

The form is a wish, and Georgians use it as one fixed word.

Examples (5)

  1. მეგობრობას გაუმარჯოს!

    To friendship!

    The dative: მეგობრობას.

  2. ჩვენს მასპინძელს გაუმარჯოს!

    To our host!

    ჩვენი becomes ჩვენს before a dative noun.

  3. გაგვიმარჯოს!

    Cheers! To us!

    გვ- means us.

  4. მშვიდობას გაუმარჯოს!

    To peace!

    A classic toast at the supra.

  5. ჩვენს ოჯახს გაუმარჯოს!

    To our family!

    A toast to the family.

Common Mistakes

  • Putting the person or thing you toast in the nominative.

    მეგობრობა გაუმარჯოს!
    მეგობრობას გაუმარჯოს!

    The person or thing you toast is in the dative.

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გაუმარჯოსLevel 3Cheers and Long Live

Learn This First

Cheers uses a dative.

Words in This Pattern

გაუმარჯოს