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Preface to the second edition | |
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Introduction | |
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Handwritten examples | |
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Greetings and introductions | |
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Citation form of nouns and adjectives | |
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Locative expressions | |
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Formation of adverbs | |
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Asking questions | |
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Consonant-final words | |
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Pronouns, possessive adjectives and possessive pronouns | |
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Formality | |
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The present tense of to be | |
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The verb of motion and similar formations | |
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The plural of nouns | |
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The dative case | |
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The genitive case | |
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Declension of the demonstrative adjectives | |
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Adjective agreement with datives and genitives | |
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Preverbs | |
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Numbers | |
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Telling the time | |
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Days of the week | |
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Months of the year | |
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The present tense of the verbs stand up, sit down, lie down | |
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Names denoting common relationships and possessives | |
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Asking about and stating one's age | |
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The comparative and superlative grades of adjectives and adverbs | |
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The instrumental case | |
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Adjective agreement with the instrumental | |
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Postpositions | |
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Summary of the past tense of irregular verbs from previous lessons | |
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Subject agreement markers within the verb for intransitive subjects | |
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The division of the tense system | |
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Subject and direct object case marking and verbal agreement for Series I transitives | |
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Word order | |
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Transitive verbs in the present indicative | |
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Neutral version | |
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Verb agreement with 3rd person plural subjects | |
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Syncope of -o- in nouns | |
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The adverbial case of nouns | |
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Adjective agreement with nouns in the adverbial case | |
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The postposition -mde up to | |
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Subjective version | |
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Indirect objects | |
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Locative version | |
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Indefinite pronouns and adverbs | |
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Articles | |
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The future indicative of transitive verbs | |
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Object agreement affixes | |
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Reflexives | |
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Emphatic pronouns | |
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Objective version | |
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Expressions with too, also, as well | |
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Emphatic interrogative particle | |
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Relative clauses | |
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The potential negative | |
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The vocative case | |
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Adjective agreement with the vocative | |
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The syntax of Series II transitive verbs | |
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The ergative case | |
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Declension types and agreement patterns | |
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The aorist indicative forms of transitive verbs | |
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The formation of colloquial relative clauses | |
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Temporal clauses meaning when | |
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Temporal clauses meaning while | |
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Manner clauses meaning as, like | |
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Temporal clauses meaning as soon as | |
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Temporal clauses meaning after | |
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Noun clauses | |
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Causal clauses because, since, as | |
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Simple conditional (if) clauses | |
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The verb know in the present indicative | |
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The formation of the present and future indicatives of intransitive verbs | |
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Meaning and syntax of Class 2 intransitive verbs | |
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The marking of intransitive verbs with indirect objects | |
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Some anomalies among the intransitives | |
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Some irregular future indicatives | |
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The formation of the aorist indicative of intransitive verbs | |
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The syntax required by intransitive verbs in Series II | |
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The medial verbs in the present, future and aorist indicatives | |
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The syntax of medial verbs | |
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Version as a change of tense marker | |
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The formation of the aorist subjunctive for transitives, intransitives and medials | |
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Some uses of the aorist subjunctive | |
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How to give an instruction in the imperative | |
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How to construct expressions of prohibition | |
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Stative verbs | |
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The indirect verbs | |
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How to say X wants to [verb] and X can [verb] | |
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How to express the notion convey | |
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How to say know in the future indicative | |
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Forms of the more important stative verbs | |
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Formation of the imperfect indicative, present subjunctive, conditional and future subjunctive | |
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Expressions of the type If X were to (be) [verb](ing), Y would [verb] | |
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Constructing imperatives from verbs without an aorist indicative | |
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Constructing expressions of the type X ought to be [verb]ing | |
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Expressions of purpose relating to the future | |
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Some other verbs that take the aorist subjunctive | |
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The perfect forms of transitive and medial verbs | |
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How to say X did not [verb] | |
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Three colloquial uses for the perfect | |
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The construction of sentences containing although/even if | |
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Expressions like X is so [adjective] that [clause] | |
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Negatives | |
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The formation and meaning of the pluperfect of transitive and medial verbs | |
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How to express the idea X should/ought to have [verb]ed | |
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How to express a purpose relating to the past | |
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How to express conditions of the type If X had [verb]ed | |
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Examples of word formation | |
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The main function of preverbs in the Modern Georgian verbal system | |
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The formation and functions of the verbal noun 'masdar' | |
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The formation and functions of participles | |
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Expressing at the time of [verb]ing | |
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The formation of the perfect of intransitive verbs | |
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The formation of the perfect of indirect verbs | |
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The structure of the perfect for stative verbs | |
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Reported speech | |
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The formation of the pluperfect of intransitive verbs | |
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The formation of the pluperfect of indirect verbs | |
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The formation of the pluperfect for stative verbs | |
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Clauses introduced by the conjunctions before and until | |
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Some patterns of word formation | |
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Some useful sets of vocabulary | |
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The form and use of the IIIrd subjunctive | |
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The form and function of causative verbs | |
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An alternative passive | |
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An alternative Series III for transitive verbs | |
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Indefinite clauses | |
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A glossary of grammatical terms | |
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Key to the exercises | |
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Georgian-English vocabulary | |
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Translations of literary texts | |
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Index | |