-ით (By Doing)

By Doing

Level 6Sounds Like it

A verbal noun with -ით says in what way something happens: სირბილით (running), ღიმილით (with a smile).

How It Works

At Level 2 you met -ით for tools and transport: ავტობუსით (by bus). Put it on a verbal noun, and it says how an action is done:

Verbal nounWith -ითExample
სირბილი (running)სირბილითსირბილით მოვიდა. (He came running.)
ტირილი (crying)ტირილითტირილით მოვარდა. (She rushed in crying.)
ღიმილი (smiling)ღიმილითღიმილით გვიპასუხა. (She answered us with a smile.)
სიმღერა (singing)სიმღერითსიმღერით შევხვდით. (We greeted them with song.)

The same form also names the means: ქართულს კითხვით ვსწავლობ (I'm learning Georgian by reading).

English often uses an -ing word here: came running, learn by reading. Georgian says it with the verbal noun and -ით.

Some of these phrases come from plain nouns and are fixed: ფეხით (on foot) from ფეხი (foot), ძალით (by force) from ძალა (strength).

Examples (5)

  1. ლუკა სირბილით მოვიდა.

    Luka came running.

    სირბილით says how he came.

  2. ბავშვი ტირილით მოვარდა დედასთან.

    The child came rushing to his mom, crying.

    ტირილით describes the way he came.

  3. გოგონამ ღიმილით გვიპასუხა.

    The girl answered us with a smile.

    ღიმილით says how she answered.

  4. ქართულს კითხვით ვსწავლობ.

    I'm learning Georgian by reading.

    Here the verbal noun names the means.

  5. სტუმრებს სიმღერით შევხვდით.

    We greeted the guests with song.

    სიმღერით says how they were greeted.

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-ით (By Doing)Level 6By Doing

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-ით on a verbal noun means by doing.

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