მსუბუქი
“მსუბუქი” (msubuki) — light in weight in Georgian. Adjective, level A1. About weight and about food. msubuki avtomobili is a passenger car. In a live sentence: “ეს ჩანთა ძალიან მსუბუქია” — This bag is very light in weight. You can hear how it sounds right here. Written with the characters მ, ს, უ, ბ, უ, ქ, ი. A word from the everyday Georgian course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Georgian | მსუბუქი |
| Read in Latin letters | msubuki |
| Translation | light in weight |
| Part of speech | adjective |
| Level | A1 |
- მსუბუქიmsubukilight in weight
Why it looks that way
About weight and about food. msubuki avtomobili is a passenger car
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.
- ეს ჩანთა ძალიან მსუბუქიაes chanta dzalian msubukiaThis bag is very light in weight
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 “light in weight” in Georgian?
«მსუბუქი», read “msubuki”. In a live sentence: “ეს ჩანთა ძალიან მსუბუქია” — This bag is very light in weight. You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Adjective, level A1; written with the characters მ, ს, უ, ბ, უ, ქ, ი.
How is “მსუბუქი” written in Latin letters?
msubuki. 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?
About weight and about food. msubuki avtomobili is a passenger car. 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.