თუ (If)

If

Level 3Sounds Like tu

თუ means if, for something that can really happen.

How It Works

თუ (tu) starts a condition that can really happen. The result follows in the main clause, often in the future:

  • თუ წვიმს, სახლში დავრჩები (if it rains, I'll stay home)
  • თუ გინდა, ერთად წავალთ (if you want, we'll go together)

When the condition is about the future, Georgian often puts it in the future too, where English uses the present: თუ ხვალ მოხვალ, ერთად ვისადილებთ (if you come tomorrow, we'll have lunch together).

The result can also be a command: თუ გცივა, ფანჯარა დახურე (if you're cold, close the window).

You already know თუ as or in questions: ჩაი თუ ყავა? (tea or coffee?) Inside a sentence with two clauses, it means if.

For imagined situations, such as if I were rich, Georgian uses other verb forms, which come at Level 4.

Examples (5)

  1. თუ წვიმს, სახლში დავრჩები.

    If it rains, I'll stay home.

    თუ with the present, result in the future.

  2. თუ გცივა, ფანჯარა დახურე.

    If you're cold, close the window.

    The result is a command.

  3. თუ ხვალ მოხვალ, ერთად ვისადილებთ.

    If you come tomorrow, we'll have lunch together.

    The condition is in the future.

  4. თუ გინდა, ერთად წავალთ.

    If you want, we'll go together.

    A common way to offer something.

  5. თუ ფული მექნება, ზაფხულში სვანეთში წავალ.

    If I have money, I'll go to Svaneti in the summer.

    მექნება, I will have, in the condition.

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