Telling Someone To Do Something

Level 3

To tell someone to do something, use the you-form of the aorist.

How It Works

Georgian commands use the you-form of the aorist, with its preverb:

Verb	To one friend	To several, or polite
write	დაწერე!	დაწერეთ!
do	გააკეთე!	გააკეთეთ!
read	წაიკითხე!	წაიკითხეთ!
come	მოდი!	მოდით!
go	წადი!	წადით!

Come and go are the exceptions. Their past you-forms are მოხვედი and წახვედი, but the commands are მოდი and წადი.

Sit down is special too: დაჯექი! to one friend, დაჯექით! politely to one person, and დასხედით! to several people.

The object of a command is in the nominative, as in the past: დაწერე შენი სახელი (write your name). To ask nicely, add გთხოვთ (gtkhovt) (please) or თუ შეიძლება (if possible).

To tell someone not to do something, use ნუ with the present: ნუ ღელავ! (don't worry!)

Examples (5)

დაწერე შენი სახელი აქ.
Write your name here.
დაწერე, the you-form of the past.
მომეცი ის წიგნი, თუ შეიძლება.
Give me that book, please.
მომეცი means give me.
მოდი აქ!
Come here!
მოდი is the command for come.
ბავშვებო, წადით და ხელები დაიბანეთ!
Kids, go and wash your hands!
-თ for several people.
გთხოვთ, დაჯექით.
Please sit down.
The polite command to one person, with -თ.

Common Mistakes

Using the past you-form of come as a command.
მოხვედი აქ!
მოდი აქ!
მოხვედი means you came. The command is მოდი.

How It Connects

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Telling Someone To Do SomethingLevel 3

Learn This First

Commands are built on the simple past.

The Simple Past
Know the simple past, because most commands use its form: დაწერე!
Level 3

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Patterns that build on this one.

თორემOr ElseLevel 3

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