#interrogative words

who - কে (ke)

এর লেখক কে? (er lekhôk ke?) - Who is it’s writer?

whose - কার (kār)

এই বইটা কার? (e'i bo'iṭā kār?) - Whose book is it?

what - কি (ki)

এই বইটার শীর্ষক কি? (e'i bo'iṭār śīrṣok ki?) - What’s the title of this book?

where - কোথায় (kothāy)

ঐ বইটা কোথায় আছে? (oi bo'iṭā kothāy āche?) - Where is that book?

when - কখন (kôkhôn)

এই বইটা কখন ছাপা হয়ে ছিল? (e'i bo'iṭā kôkhôn chāpā ho’e chilo?) - When was the book published/printed?

why - কেন (kæno)

আপনি এই বইটি কেন লিখেছেন? (āpni e'i bo'iṭi kæno likhechen?) - Why did you write this book?

how - কেমন (kæmôn)

Interrogative Words - კითხვით სიტყველბი

ვინ - Who?

რა - What?

ვისი - Whose?

რამდენი - How many?

სად - Where?

საიდან - Where from?

საითკენ - Where to?

როგორ - How?

როდის - When?

როგორი - What?

რომელი - Which?

რატომ - Why?

The beautiful thing about asking questions in Georgian is the intonation and it follows a system : Interrogative + verb + other parts of the question.

Example: რა გქვია* შენ? - What is your name? 

わたし　は　だれ　です　か。 watashi wa dare desu ka? (lit.) Me/I (topic particle) who to be/is (question particle) Who am I?

だれ-dare- is the word for "who". This is a little bit tricky, like with "like and hate" text we might have to use the particle が-ga-.

Let me try to give an example...

With what we know so far about particles we can ask:

だれ　は　クッキー　を　たべましたか？ dare wa kukkii wo tabemashita ka. Who ate the cookies?

Grammatically it has no problems but it doesn't sound 100% natural.

When we want to ask who does something using が-ga- is better:

だれ　が　クッキー　を　たべましたか。 dare ga kukki- wo tabemashita ka?.

Let's say that が-ga- is the action particle for people. When someone does something we have to use が-ga-

クッキー　は　だれ　が　たべました　か。 kukkii wa dare ga tabemashita ka. (lit) cookies (topic particle) who (ga) ate?

And as you may imagine the answer uses the same pattern:

クッキー　は　やまもとさん　が　たべました。 kukkii wa Yamamoto san ga tabemashita. Yamamoto san ate the cookies.

Or simply:

やまもとさん　が　たべました。 Yamamoto san ga tabemashita. Yamamoto san ate them.

Now that we already saw the months, days of the month and days of the week I believe it's time to go ask "いつ？-itsu?-" (when).

A: たんじょうび　は　いつ　ですか。 A: Tanjoubi wa itsu desu ka. A: When is your birthday?

We can answer something like:

B: わたし　の　たんじょうび　は　しがつ　ついたち　です。 B: watashi no tanjoubi wa shigatsu tsuitachi desu. B: My birthday is on April 1st.

いつ-itsu- can be used without a particle:

A: いつ　にほん　へ　いきますか。 A: itsu nihon he ikimasuka? A: When will you go to Japan?

B: らいねん　の　さんがつ　に　にほん　へ　いきます。 B: rainen no sangatsu ni nihon he ikimasu. B: I will go on March of next year.

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