The Plural -t Inside the Verb
The -t suffix pluralizing subjects (midikhart), objects (gelodebit), and building let's-forms (ts'avidet).
I can pluralize verb forms correctly for we, you-all, and them - and read whose plurality -t marks.
Look at these examples. Can you spot the grammar pattern?
სად მიდიხართ? - ბაზარში მივდივართ.
Where are you (all) going? - We are going to the bazaar.
ბავშვებო, ხვალ გელოდებით!
Children, I'll be waiting for you tomorrow!
ამ შაბათს ერთად ვივახშმოთ!
Let's have dinner together this Saturday!
Pay attention to the highlighted parts. What do they have in common?
The little -t that multiplies
The suffix -თ pluralizes a verb participant: მიდიხართ (you all go), წავალთ (we'll go), გელოდებით (I wait for you all - object plural!). Which participant it multiplies is read from the person prefixes plus context. It also builds let's-forms: წავიდეთ!
Addressing a group with singular forms (polite tkven also needs -t: midikhart) and reading gelodebit as 'we wait' (it can be 'I wait for you all').
Common Error Patterns
Dropping -t in plural address or misreading whose plurality -t marks
Who-is-plural drills: subject-plural vs object-plural -t in minimal pairs.
სად მიდიხართ? - ბაზარში მივდივართ.
Where are you (all) going? - We are going to the bazaar.
-t pluralizes the subject: midikhart (you all), mivdivart (we).
ბავშვებო, ხვალ გელოდებით!
Children, I'll be waiting for you tomorrow!
Here -t pluralizes the OBJECT: gelodebit 'I wait for you-all'. Same suffix, different job.
ამ შაბათს ერთად ვივახშმოთ!
Let's have dinner together this Saturday!
Optative + -t = the let's-form: vivakhshmot.
Practice in course
Apply this grammar in B1 course exercises