Preface to the second edition | p. xiii |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Handwritten examples | p. 9 |
| p. 13 |
Greetings and introductions | p. 15 |
Citation form of nouns and adjectives | p. 16 |
Locative expressions | p. 16 |
Formation of adverbs | p. 16 |
Asking questions | p. 17 |
Consonant-final words | p. 17 |
Pronouns, possessive adjectives and possessive pronouns | p. 17 |
Formality | p. 18 |
The present tense of to be | p. 18 |
The verb of motion and similar formations | p. 19 |
| p. 24 |
The plural of nouns | p. 26 |
The dative case | p. 27 |
The genitive case | p. 27 |
Declension of the demonstrative adjectives | p. 28 |
Adjective agreement with datives and genitives | p. 28 |
Preverbs | p. 29 |
Numbers | p. 29 |
Telling the time | p. 30 |
Days of the week | p. 31 |
Months of the year | p. 31 |
The present tense of the verbs stand up, sit down, lie down | p. 32 |
Names denoting common relationships and possessives | p. 34 |
| p. 37 |
Asking about and stating one's age | p. 40 |
The comparative and superlative grades of adjectives and adverbs | p. 40 |
The instrumental case | p. 41 |
Adjective agreement with the instrumental | p. 41 |
Postpositions | p. 41 |
Summary of the past tense of irregular verbs from previous lessons | p. 43 |
Subject agreement markers within the verb for intransitive subjects | p. 44 |
| p. 48 |
The division of the tense system | p. 52 |
Subject and direct object case marking and verbal agreement for Series I transitives | p. 52 |
Word order | p. 53 |
Transitive verbs in the present indicative | p. 53 |
Neutral version | p. 55 |
Verb agreement with 3rd person plural subjects | p. 55 |
Syncope of -o- in nouns | p. 56 |
The adverbial case of nouns | p. 56 |
Adjective agreement with nouns in the adverbial case | p. 56 |
The postposition -mde up to | p. 57 |
| p. 61 |
Subjective version | p. 64 |
Indirect objects | p. 66 |
Locative version | p. 67 |
Indefinite pronouns and adverbs | p. 68 |
Articles | p. 69 |
| p. 75 |
The future indicative of transitive verbs | p. 77 |
Object agreement affixes | p. 79 |
Reflexives | p. 81 |
Emphatic pronouns | p. 82 |
| p. 87 |
Objective version | p. 90 |
Expressions with too, also, as well | p. 92 |
Emphatic interrogative particle | p. 92 |
Relative clauses | p. 92 |
The potential negative | p. 93 |
The vocative case | p. 94 |
Adjective agreement with the vocative | p. 94 |
| p. 100 |
The syntax of Series II transitive verbs | p. 103 |
The ergative case | p. 104 |
Declension types and agreement patterns | p. 104 |
The aorist indicative forms of transitive verbs | p. 106 |
| p. 122 |
The formation of colloquial relative clauses | p. 125 |
Temporal clauses meaning when | p. 126 |
Temporal clauses meaning while | p. 127 |
Manner clauses meaning as, like | p. 128 |
Temporal clauses meaning as soon as | p. 128 |
Temporal clauses meaning after | p. 129 |
Noun clauses | p. 129 |
Causal clauses because, since, as | p. 130 |
Simple conditional (if) clauses | p. 130 |
The verb know in the present indicative | p. 131 |
| p. 136 |
The formation of the present and future indicatives of intransitive verbs | p. 140 |
Meaning and syntax of Class 2 intransitive verbs | p. 145 |
The marking of intransitive verbs with indirect objects | p. 146 |
Some anomalies among the intransitives | p. 150 |
Some irregular future indicatives | p. 151 |
| p. 160 |
The formation of the aorist indicative of intransitive verbs | p. 165 |
The syntax required by intransitive verbs in Series II | p. 171 |
The medial verbs in the present, future and aorist indicatives | p. 173 |
The syntax of medial verbs | p. 177 |
Version as a change of tense marker | p. 177 |
| p. 185 |
The formation of the aorist subjunctive for transitives, intransitives and medials | p. 187 |
Some uses of the aorist subjunctive | p. 194 |
How to give an instruction in the imperative | p. 196 |
How to construct expressions of prohibition | p. 198 |
| p. 205 |
Stative verbs | p. 209 |
The indirect verbs | p. 210 |
How to say X wants to [verb] and X can [verb] | p. 219 |
How to express the notion convey | p. 219 |
How to say know in the future indicative | p. 220 |
Forms of the more important stative verbs | p. 221 |
| p. 229 |
Formation of the imperfect indicative, present subjunctive, conditional and future subjunctive | p. 232 |
Expressions of the type If X were to (be) [verb](ing), Y would [verb] | p. 238 |
Constructing imperatives from verbs without an aorist indicative | p. 239 |
Constructing expressions of the type X ought to be [verb]ing | p. 240 |
Expressions of purpose relating to the future | p. 240 |
Some other verbs that take the aorist subjunctive | p. 241 |
| p. 249 |
The perfect forms of transitive and medial verbs | p. 252 |
How to say X did not [verb] | p. 259 |
Three colloquial uses for the perfect | p. 260 |
The construction of sentences containing although/even if | p. 261 |
Expressions like X is so [adjective] that [clause] | p. 261 |
Negatives | p. 262 |
| p. 269 |
The formation and meaning of the pluperfect of transitive and medial verbs | p. 272 |
How to express the idea X should/ought to have [verb]ed | p. 279 |
How to express a purpose relating to the past | p. 280 |
How to express conditions of the type If X had [verb]ed | p. 281 |
Examples of word formation | p. 282 |
| p. 289 |
The main function of preverbs in the Modern Georgian verbal system | p. 293 |
The formation and functions of the verbal noun 'masdar' | p. 295 |
The formation and functions of participles | p. 298 |
Expressing at the time of [verb]ing | p. 310 |
| p. 318 |
The formation of the perfect of intransitive verbs | p. 322 |
The formation of the perfect of indirect verbs | p. 328 |
The structure of the perfect for stative verbs | p. 330 |
Reported speech | p. 331 |
| p. 342 |
The formation of the pluperfect of intransitive verbs | p. 344 |
The formation of the pluperfect of indirect verbs | p. 348 |
The formation of the pluperfect for stative verbs | p. 350 |
Clauses introduced by the conjunctions before and until | p. 350 |
Some patterns of word formation | p. 352 |
Some useful sets of vocabulary | p. 354 |
| p. 365 |
The form and use of the IIIrd subjunctive | p. 370 |
The form and function of causative verbs | p. 374 |
An alternative passive | p. 380 |
An alternative Series III for transitive verbs | p. 381 |
Indefinite clauses | p. 381 |
A glossary of grammatical terms | p. 392 |
Key to the exercises | p. 398 |
Georgian-English vocabulary | p. 421 |
Translations of literary texts | p. 474 |
Index | p. 481 |
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