ანაზღაურებადი შვებულება
“ანაზღაურებადი შვებულება” (anazghaurebadi shvebuleba) — paid vacation in Georgian. Noun, level B1. the gh is voiced and throaty in the middle: a-naz-ghau-re-ba-di. In a live sentence: “ანაზღაურებადი შვებულება წელიწადში ოცდაოთხი დღეა” — Paid vacation is twenty-four days a year. You can hear how it sounds right here. Written with the characters ა, ნ, ა, ზ, ღ, ა, უ, რ, ე, ბ, ა, დ. A word from the everyday Georgian course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Georgian | ანაზღაურებადი შვებულება |
| Read in Latin letters | anazghaurebadi shvebuleba |
| Translation | paid vacation |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | B1 |
- ანაზღაურებადი შვებულებაanazghaurebadi shvebulebapaid vacation
How to pronounce it
the gh is voiced and throaty in the middle: a-naz-ghau-re-ba-di
Why it looks that way
shebuleba is leave from work, ardadegebi is school break: the two are not interchangeable. anazgaureba means payment, compensation for labor. Unpaid leave is anazgaurebis gareshe shebuleba
A word with a story stays in memory longer than one learned as a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.
In a live sentence
A single word almost never appears alone in conversation. A sentence shows where it fits and what stands next to it.
- ანაზღაურებადი შვებულება წელიწადში ოცდაოთხი დღეაanazghaurebadi shvebuleba tselitsadshi otsdaotkhi dgheaPaid vacation is twenty-four days a year
How not to forget this word
Reading a word and remembering it are different jobs. A day later, little survives of a single reading — and that is not bad memory, that is how memory works.
- This has been tested on foreign words too. The difference shows up most when you test yourself a few days later rather than straight away.checked many timesKim & Webb, 2022, Language Learning 72(2) · 48 experiments, 3,411 participants, 98 comparisons.
- Recalling beats re-reading. Covering the translation and trying to remember it does more than reading it ten more times.checked many timesAdesope, Trevisan & Sundararajan, 2017, Review of Educational Research 87(3) · 188 experiments, 272 comparisons. g = 0.61; against plain re-reading 0.51, against passive review 0.93.
- An answer you worked out yourself sticks better than one handed to you.checked many timesBertsch et al., 2007, Memory & Cognition 35(2) · 86 studies, 445 comparisons, d = 0.40.
Frequently asked
How do you say “paid vacation” in Georgian?
«ანაზღაურებადი შვებულება», read “anazghaurebadi shvebuleba”. the gh is voiced and throaty in the middle: a-naz-ghau-re-ba-di. In a live sentence: “ანაზღაურებადი შვებულება წელიწადში ოცდაოთხი დღეა” — Paid vacation is twenty-four days a year. You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Noun, level B1; written with the characters ა, ნ, ა, ზ, ღ, ა, უ, რ, ე, ბ, ა, დ.
How is “ანაზღაურებადი შვებულება” written in Latin letters?
anazghaurebadi shvebuleba. This is a practical spelling — you need it to read aloud and be understood, not to meet an academic standard.
Why does this word look the way it does?
shebuleba is leave from work, ardadegebi is school break: the two are not interchangeable. anazgaureba means payment, compensation for labor. Unpaid leave is anazgaurebis gareshe shebuleba. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.
Can I hear how it sounds?
Yes, right on this page: click the word and it will play. The sound works on any phone, and nothing needs to be installed.