თურმე

თურმე (turme) tells the listener that this is news to you. You found it out later, or someone told you. English says it turns out, apparently or I hear:

• თურმე წასულა. (It turns out he has left.)
• თურმე გუშინ ქალაქში დიდი კონცერტი ყოფილა. (Apparently there was a big concert in town yesterday.)

Most often it comes with the perfect, which carries the same idea, and together they make the meaning very clear: თურმე ბავშვებს ყველაფერი შეუჭამიათ (it turns out the children have eaten everything).

With the present tense, თურმე reports a surprising fact you have just learned: ის თურმე ქართულად ლაპარაკობს! (It turns out he speaks Georgian!)

თურმე usually stands at the start of the sentence or right after the subject.