Class IV verbs through the three series: permanent dative subjects, no ergative ever, irregular perfects (mkonia, shemqvarebia).
I can carry love-have-remember verbs through every tense without losing the inversion.
Look at these examples. Can you spot the grammar pattern?
ბავშვობიდან მახსოვს ბებიის ეზოს სურნელი.
Since childhood I remember the scent of grandma's courtyard.
თურმე ეს სიმღერა ბავშვობაშივე შემყვარებია.
It turns out I had fallen in love with this song back in childhood.
პატარა რომ ვიყავი, ძაღლი მყავდა და ველოსიპედი მქონდა.
When I was little, I had a dog and a bicycle.
Pay attention to the highlighted parts. What do they have in common?
Class IV verbs (love, have, remember, want) keep their dative subject through ALL series: მიყვარს → მიყვარდა → შემყვარებია. They never take the ergative, their 'object' controls number agreement, and their series III forms (მქონია, მყოლია, შემყვარებია) are irregular enough to deserve flashcards.
Apply this grammar in C1 course exercises
Practice ExercisesErgative subjects on feeling verbs in the aorist (*Ninom uqvarda) and regularized perfects (*mikvarebia for shemqvarebia).
De-inverting feeling verbs in past/perfect or wrong series III forms
Full-paradigm drills on miqvars/makvs/mqavs/makhsovs across the three series.
ბავშვობიდან მახსოვს ბებიის ეზოს სურნელი.
Since childhood I remember the scent of grandma's courtyard.
makhsovs 'I remember' - a permanent-inversion verb: the rememberer is dative in every tense.
თურმე ეს სიმღერა ბავშვობაშივე შემყვარებია.
It turns out I had fallen in love with this song back in childhood.
shemqvarebia - the perfect of miqvars: inversion verbs build series III on their own pattern.
პატარა რომ ვიყავი, ძაღლი მყავდა და ველოსიპედი მქონდა.
When I was little, I had a dog and a bicycle.
mqavda (animate) vs mkonda (inanimate): the A1 split survives every tense shift.
Practice in course
Apply this grammar in C1 course exercises