მსურს

I Wish to, Formally

Level 5Sounds Like msurs

მსურს is a formal way to say I want or I would like, used in letters, speeches and service.

How It Works

მსურს (msurs) means I wish or I would like. It belongs to formal letters, speeches, announcements and polite service. With friends, say მინდა.

Who wantsForm
Iმსურს
you (one person)გსურს
he or sheსურს
weგვსურს
you (several, or polite)გსურთ
theyსურთ

Like მინდა, it works like a feeling verb: the person who wants is in the dative (მას სურს, he wishes), and the marker at the start shows who it is. After it comes a noun, or a verb in the optative, the form you know from მინდა წავიდე: მსურს გაცნობოთ (I wish to inform you).

A waiter or a shop assistant may ask რა გსურთ? (What would you like?). The past is მსურდა (I wished, I wanted to).

Examples (5)

  1. მსურს მადლობა გადაგიხადოთ დახმარებისთვის.

    I would like to thank you for your help.

    The optative გადაგიხადოთ follows მსურს, as it would follow მინდა.

  2. გვსურს გაცნობოთ, რომ მაღაზია ხვალ დაკეტილი იქნება.

    We wish to inform you that the shop will be closed tomorrow.

    გვ- shows that we are the ones who wish.

  3. რა გსურთ, ქალბატონო?

    What would you like, madam?

    The polite you form, with -თ.

  4. ბავშვობიდან მსურდა ამ ქალაქის ნახვა.

    I had wanted to see this city since I was a child.

    მსურდა is the past; here a verbal noun follows it.

  5. გვსურს ყველას ახალი წელი მივულოცოთ.

    We would like to wish everyone a happy New Year.

    A formal greeting in a speech or a card.

Common Mistakes

  • Keeping the I marker for we.

    ჩვენ მსურს მადლობა გადაგიხადოთ.
    ჩვენ გვსურს მადლობა გადაგიხადოთ.

    The marker shows who wants: მ- is I, გვ- is we.

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მსურსLevel 5I Wish to, Formally

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მსურს is a formal I want.

Words in This Pattern

სურს