Compounding hundreds and thousands (orasi, atasi), dative dates (khut maiss), and year expressions with ts'els.
I can handle prices, years, and calendar dates in real conversations.
Look at these examples. Can you spot the grammar pattern?
ეს ეკლესია ათას ექვსას წელს აშენდა.
This church was built in the year 1600.
ჩემი დაბადების დღე ხუთ მაისს არის.
My birthday is on the fifth of May.
ბინა თვეში რვაას ლარად ვიქირავე.
I rented the flat for 800 lari a month.
Pay attention to the highlighted parts. What do they have in common?
Hundreds compound left: ორასი (200), რვაასი (800); thousands use ათასი: ორი ათას ოცდაექვსი (2026). Dates go dative with truncated numerals: ხუთ მაისს (on May 5th); years take წელს. The vigesimal logic from A1 still runs inside the last two digits.
Apply this grammar in B1 course exercises
Practice ExercisesSaying dates in the nominative (*khuti maisi as a date) and reviving the plural after big numerals (*as larebi - still singular!).
Wrong hundreds compounding or nominative dates
Year and date dictation drills: hear it, write the numeral, say the dative date.
ეს ეკლესია ათას ექვსას წელს აშენდა.
This church was built in the year 1600.
Years stack like prices: atas ekvsas (one thousand six hundred) + ts'els (in the year, dative).
ჩემი დაბადების დღე ხუთ მაისს არის.
My birthday is on the fifth of May.
Dates take the dative: khut maiss - and the numeral truncates (khuti - khut).
ბინა თვეში რვაას ლარად ვიქირავე.
I rented the flat for 800 lari a month.
rvaas lari (800) - hundreds compound directly: rva + as(i); price-per-period uses tveshi.
Practice in course
Apply this grammar in B1 course exercises