კაკალზე ალერგია მაქვს
“კაკალზე ალერგია მაქვს” (kakalze alergia makvs) — I'm allergic to nuts in Georgian. Phrase, level B1. the k twice sharp: ka-kal-ze. In a live sentence: “კაკალზე ალერგია მაქვს, საწებელი არ მინდა” — I'm allergic to nuts, no sauce please. You can hear how it sounds right here. Written with the characters კ, ა, კ, ა, ლ, ზ, ე, ა, ლ, ე, რ, გ. A word from the everyday Georgian course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Georgian | კაკალზე ალერგია მაქვს |
| Read in Latin letters | kakalze alergia makvs |
| Translation | I'm allergic to nuts |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | B1 |
- კაკალზე ალერგია მაქვსkakalze alergia makvsI'm allergic to nuts
How to pronounce it
the k twice sharp: ka-kal-ze
Why it looks that way
What you are allergic to takes the postposition -ze: tevzze, rdzese. qaqali is the walnut, and it is in almost everything in Georgian cooking, so the phrase here is no textbook one
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.
- კაკალზე ალერგია მაქვს, საწებელი არ მინდაkakalze alergia makvs, satsebeli ar mindaI'm allergic to nuts, no sauce please
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 “I'm allergic to nuts” in Georgian?
«კაკალზე ალერგია მაქვს», read “kakalze alergia makvs”. the k twice sharp: ka-kal-ze. In a live sentence: “კაკალზე ალერგია მაქვს, საწებელი არ მინდა” — I'm allergic to nuts, no sauce please. You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Phrase, level B1; written with the characters კ, ა, კ, ა, ლ, ზ, ე, ა, ლ, ე, რ, გ.
How is “კაკალზე ალერგია მაქვს” written in Latin letters?
kakalze alergia makvs. 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?
What you are allergic to takes the postposition -ze: tevzze, rdzese. qaqali is the walnut, and it is in almost everything in Georgian cooking, so the phrase here is no textbook one. 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.