The Full Aorist Paradigm
The six-person aorist endings for both major types (dats'era-type and motion-verb type) including the 2nd-person -khv- insert.
I can narrate past events about any person - I, you, we, the guests - with correct aorist endings.
Look at these examples. Can you spot the grammar pattern?
გუშინ წერილი დავწერე, ნინომ კი ორი დაწერა.
Yesterday I wrote a letter, and Nino wrote two.
სად წახვედით შაბათს? - მთებში წავედით.
Where did you go on Saturday? - We went to the mountains.
სტუმრები გვიან წავიდნენ.
The guests left late.
Pay attention to the highlighted parts. What do they have in common?
All six persons of the past
The aorist endings: -ე (I/you sg), -ა (he/she), -ეთ (we/you pl), -ეს (they) for the დაწერა-type; motion verbs use -ი/-ა/-ით/-ნენ (წავედი, წავიდა, წავიდნენ). Watch the 2nd person of 'go': წახვედი with -ხვ-. Master one verb of each type and the rest follow the template.
Using 1st-person -e for the 3rd person (*man dats'ere) and forgetting the -khv- insert (*ts'avedi for 'you went' - that means 'I went').
Common Error Patterns
Wrong person ending in the aorist (esp. 2nd-person -khv- forms and 3rd-plural -es/-nen)
Full-paradigm drills on dats'era and ts'avida type verbs, person by person.
გუშინ წერილი დავწერე, ნინომ კი ორი დაწერა.
Yesterday I wrote a letter, and Nino wrote two.
1st person -e (davts'ere), 3rd person -a (dats'era) - the signature aorist endings.
სად წახვედით შაბათს? - მთებში წავედით.
Where did you go on Saturday? - We went to the mountains.
2nd person of 'go' inserts -khv-: ts'akhvedi(t) - learn it as a form of its own.
სტუმრები გვიან წავიდნენ.
The guests left late.
3rd plural of motion verbs ends in -nen: ts'avidnen.
Practice in course
Apply this grammar in B1 course exercises