Present-unreal conditionals: rom + subjunctive condition, -di/-odi conditional result, and the tu/rom reality signal.
I can daydream, advise, and hypothesize with unreal conditionals.
Look at these examples. Can you spot the grammar pattern?
დრო რომ მქონდეს, ყოველდღე მთებში ვივლიდი.
If I had time, I would hike in the mountains every day.
შენს ადგილას რომ ვიყო, იმ სამსახურს დავთანხმდებოდი.
If I were in your place, I would accept that job.
ქართველი რომ არ იყოს, ამდენ სადღეგრძელოს ვერ იტყოდა.
If he weren't Georgian, he couldn't deliver so many toasts.
Pay attention to the highlighted parts. What do they have in common?
Unreal present conditions swap the connector: not თუ but რომ + subjunctive: ფული რომ მქონდეს, სახლს ვიყიდდი (if I had money, I'd buy a house). The result clause takes the conditional in -დი/-ოდი. The connector itself signals reality: tu = realistic, rom = daydream.
Apply this grammar in B2 course exercises
Practice ExercisesUsing tu in unreal conditions (*tu mkondes) and indicative results (*rom mkondes, viqidi instead of viqiddi).
Using tu for unreal conditions or indicative results
Real-vs-unreal sorting: tu + indicative vs rom + subjunctive pairs.
დრო რომ მქონდეს, ყოველდღე მთებში ვივლიდი.
If I had time, I would hike in the mountains every day.
Unreal present: rom + subjunctive mkondes, conditional vivlidi in the result.
შენს ადგილას რომ ვიყო, იმ სამსახურს დავთანხმდებოდი.
If I were in your place, I would accept that job.
The advice formula: shens adgilas rom viqo... - 'if I were you'.
ქართველი რომ არ იყოს, ამდენ სადღეგრძელოს ვერ იტყოდა.
If he weren't Georgian, he couldn't deliver so many toasts.
Negative unreal: rom ar iqos... ver itqoda - note ver for inability in the result.
Practice in course
Apply this grammar in B2 course exercises