“TSNOBILI“ AND “TSNOBADI”

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Modern Georgian literary language contains a lot of words in the Adverbial Case. Among them special attention is given to adjectival and participial samples such as: tanadi (well-built), tvaladi (good-looking), feradi (colorful), diadi (great), mtsiredi (a little), brunebadi (ro-tational), ganvitarebadi (developmental), danawilebadi (dividable), dashladi (splitable), drekadi (flexible) and so on. Besides, the article singles out the - ad participial forms which became very active the last days. The word “tsnobili” (famous) is Past Participle of the Passive Voice. It indicates the result, while the word “tsnobadi” (not famous yet) ex-presses the process of becoming famous. Therefore, it is impossible to express the past tense with - ad form. The article deals with the process of transforming adverbial forms into -ad participial forms and the semantical function connected with it to find out the essence of “tsnobili” and “tsnobadi”. It can be said: “Ilia Chavchavadze is a famous (tsnobili) person”, but we can’t say that “Ilia Chavchavadze is a “tsnobadi” (is not famous yet) person”.