გადაკვრა
“გადაკვრა” (gadakvra) — to tape up in Georgian. Verb, level A1. Tsebeba the course gave as 'to glue' and miatsebeba as 'to glue on'; gadakvra is of another root and means 'to lay over': that is how a crack, a box and a cut get taped. In a live sentence: “ხვრელზე ლენტის გადაკვრა ჯობს” — The hole is better taped up with tape. You can hear how it sounds right here. Written with the characters გ, ა, დ, ა, კ, ვ, რ, ა.
In short
| Written in Georgian | გადაკვრა |
| Read in Latin letters | gadakvra |
| Translation | to tape up |
| Part of speech | verb |
| Level | A1 |
- გადაკვრაgadakvrato tape up
Why it looks that way
Tsebeba the course gave as 'to glue' and miatsebeba as 'to glue on'; gadakvra is of another root and means 'to lay over': that is how a crack, a box and a cut get taped
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.
- ხვრელზე ლენტის გადაკვრა ჯობსkhvrelze lentis gadakvra jobsThe hole is better taped up with tape
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 “to tape up” in Georgian?
«გადაკვრა», read “gadakvra”. In a live sentence: “ხვრელზე ლენტის გადაკვრა ჯობს” — The hole is better taped up with tape. You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Verb, level A1; written with the characters გ, ა, დ, ა, კ, ვ, რ, ა.
How is “გადაკვრა” written in Latin letters?
gadakvra. 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?
Tsebeba the course gave as 'to glue' and miatsebeba as 'to glue on'; gadakvra is of another root and means 'to lay over': that is how a crack, a box and a cut get taped. 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.