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?
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.
Apply this grammar in B1 course exercises
Practice ExercisesUsing 1st-person -e for the 3rd person (*man dats'ere) and forgetting the -khv- insert (*ts'avedi for 'you went' - that means 'I went').
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