georgian final

8/11/2019 Georgian Final

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Assignment

Exam questions Georgian I

The deadline for your answers is August 28.

The course material will remain open during the exam period.You are expected to show that you understood the main features of Georgian and

can complete the exam questions by using the course material.

The link Indexincluded in the menu to the left will be useful when you are looking

for necessary sections in the course material.

Online dictionaries, e.g.,www.translate.ge,are also very useful.

Please do not use Google translation or any other automatic translation. You will get

much better results if you go through your own assignments and the course

material when you are looking for correct answers to the exam questions.

The examination includes five tasks:

1. Translate from Georgian into English.

2. Translate from English into Georgian.

3. Describe two or three features of grammar where English and

Georgian differ (approximately 50-100 words).

4. Fill in the blanks

5. Answer the audio questions

Grades will be given according to ECTS.

The highest grades A (Excellent) and B (Very Good) will be given to those students

who complete all tasks correctly: translate sentences correctly, provide the correct

grammatical analysis, and answers the audio questions correctly.

Grade C (Good) will be given to those students who translate more or less correctly,

but make some mistakes in grammatical analysis.

Grades D (Satisfactory) and E (pass) will be given to those students who make

several mistakes.

Reexam questions:

1. Translate from Georgian into English:

1.1. (verb) (noun). Tina lives in Tblisi.

1.2. (verb) . I play football.

1.3. (verb) . Nino has a brother.

1.4.

(subject) . David is my teacher

1.5. . George is my brother.

1.6.

(subject) . David loves sport.
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1.7. . Tina will be in Tblisi onTuesday

1.8. (verb). We had lived inQutaisi

1.9.

(subject)

(noun) . Davidbought a bus ticket.

1.10. (subject) . I am going to seeNino in Batumi tomorrow.

You may use an online dictionaryLINK

There is a dictionaryLINKin our course materials too.

Note:In order to find verbsin Georgian-English dictionaries, you have to remove a

person marker and sometimes even a vowel prefixes in verbs, e.g. if you would like

to find the verb velaparakebi, remove the first personmarker v- and the vowel prefix e-, and search for - laparak-.

(b) Provide comments for the 10 words marked in bold:

indicate the word class (noun, verb, adverb, adjective etc.)

if possible, make a segmentation of the words into smaller units (morphemes):

prefix-stem-suffix

indicate the meaning (lexical and/or grammatical) of the units/morphemes

(i.e. gogom: gogo-m - girl-Ergative). Click here to view an example:Link

2. Translate from English into Georgian:

2.1. What time is it?

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2.2. Its half past six.

2.3. Where does Giorgi live?

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2.4. I am reading a newspaper.

2.5. Tina is my sister.

2.6. They lived in Tbilisi two years ago.

2.7. I have a big house.
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2.8. I have a good friend.

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2.9. Tina likes music.

2.10. They were at school yesterday.

3. Describe two or three features of grammar

Compare the texts above and your translation of them and describe two or three

features of grammar where Georgian and English differ. Your description should be

approximately 50-100 words, but you are welcome to write more if you would like

to do so.

For grammar the first difference is there is no gender assigned for possessive

pronouns. Where in English you have he/she/it in Georgian there is none. The

Georgian verbs allow you to express the involvement of action participants in a very

compact way. For example, while it takes five words to say "I gave it to them" in

English ("I" being the subject, "it" being the direct object, "them" being the indirect

object), in Georgian this can be said in less words mivetsi mat

4. Choose the correct forms in the brackets and fill in the blanks:

4.1. .. ........... ( / ).

Nino chams vashls (vashli/vashls).

Nino is eating an apple.

4.2. ... ............. ( / ) .

Daviti aris .. (aris/var) chemi dzma.

Davit is my brother.

4.3. ...... .... ( / ) .

Lelas akvs (akvs/hqavs) axali chanta.

Lela has a new bag.

4.4. ..... .... ( / ) .

Tinas hqavs (akvs/hqavs) kargimezobeli.


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Tina has a good neighbour.

4.5. ... ... ( / ) .

me mqavs (makvs/mqavs) dzaghli.

I have a dog.

4.6. .... ....( / ).

Lela usmens musikas . (musika/musikas).

Lela is listening to music.

4.7. ( / ) .

Shen shegidzlia .. (shegidzlia/sheudzlia) kartulad laparaki.

You can speak Georgian.

4.8. .... ...... ( / ) .

Nodars sheudzlia . (shemidzlia/sheudzlia) pexburtis tamashi.

Nodar can play football.

4.9. .......... ..... ( / ).

Giorgim bavshvs naqini uqida (uqida/giqida).

Giorgi bought an ice cream to the child.

4.10. ..... ................ ( / ) .

Nodarma (Nodari/Nodarma) saxli aashena.

Nodar built a house.

5.Read the text below and answer the audio questions.

Read the Text:

chems megobars Giorgi hkviaMy friend'sname is Giorgi.


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Giorgi Kutaisshi cxovrobs Giorgi lives inKutaisi.

is ocdaori c'lisaaHe is twenty-two years old.

Giorgi universit'et'shi

sc'avlobsGiorgi studies at the University. Giorgi mesame k'urszeaGiorgi is a third yearstudent.

is dilit adre dgebaHe gets up early in the morning.

lekciebi cxris naxevarzeic'q'ebaLectures start at half past eight.

Giorgis mshoblebicKutaisshi cxovrobenGiorgi's parents live also in Kutaisi.

Write down the audio questions in Georgian and answer them. You can submityour answers in written form or as audio files. Translate the questions and

your answers into English.

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