ღმერთმა + Optative
Blessings and Wishes
Blessings and wishes use the optative, and God, as the doer, takes -მა: ღმერთმა დაგლოცოს (God bless you).
How It Works
A wish is not true yet, so Georgian puts its verb in the optative, the form you know from მინდა წავიდე. In a blessing, God is the doer. The optative belongs to the past group, so the doer takes -მა: ღმერთმა (ghmertma).
| Wish | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ღმერთმა დაგლოცოს! | God bless you! |
| ღმერთმა გიშველოს! | God help you! |
| ღმერთმა ნუ ქნას! | God forbid! |
| გაგიმარჯოს! | Hello! (the reply; may you win) |
| გაუმარჯოს! | Cheers! Long live ...! |
The marker on the verb shows who the wish is for: დაგლოცოს (you), დაგლოცოთ (you all, or polite), დალოცოს (him or her).
ნუ ქნას (forbid) is a fixed phrase: ნუ usually goes with the present or the future, but here it goes with an optative.
Older people often bless younger ones with ღმერთმა დაგლოცოს, შვილო (God bless you, my child). The reply to გამარჯობა, გაგიმარჯოს, is itself a wish in the optative.
Examples (4)
- ღმერთმა დაგლოცოს, შვილო!
God bless you, my child!
ღმერთმა is the doer of an optative, so it takes -მა.
- ღმერთმა ნუ ქნას!
God forbid!
A fixed phrase with ნუ and the optative.
- ღმერთმა გიშველოს!
God help you!
გ- shows that the wish is for you.
- — გამარჯობა! — გაგიმარჯოს!
— Hello! — Hello to you!
The everyday reply is an optative wish.
Common Mistakes
Leaving the doer of a wish in the nominative.
ღმერთი დაგლოცოს!ღმერთმა დაგლოცოს!The optative belongs to the past group, so the doer takes -მა: ღმერთმა.
How It Connects
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Blessings use ღმერთმა with the optative.
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