სახლის მორთვა
“სახლის მორთვა” (sakhlis mortva) — decorate the house in Georgian. Phrase, level A2. the rtv cluster has no vowel, and the kh is raspy: sakh-lis mor-tva. In a live sentence: “ახალი წლისთვის სახლის მორთვა გვიყვარს” — We love to decorate the house for the New Year. You can hear how it sounds right here. Written with the characters ს, ა, ხ, ლ, ი, ს, მ, ო, რ, თ, ვ, ა. A word from the everyday Georgian course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Georgian | სახლის მორთვა |
| Read in Latin letters | sakhlis mortva |
| Translation | decorate the house |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A2 |
- სახლის მორთვაsakhlis mortvadecorate the house
How to pronounce it
the rtv cluster has no vowel, and the kh is raspy: sakh-lis mor-tva
Why it looks that way
Literally 'the adorning of the house'. The same verb about a person means to dress up: moirto means 'he dressed up'
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.
- ახალი წლისთვის სახლის მორთვა გვიყვარსakhali tslistvis sakhlis mortva gviqvarsWe love to decorate the house for the New 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 “decorate the house” in Georgian?
«სახლის მორთვა», read “sakhlis mortva”. the rtv cluster has no vowel, and the kh is raspy: sakh-lis mor-tva. In a live sentence: “ახალი წლისთვის სახლის მორთვა გვიყვარს” — We love to decorate the house for the New Year. You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Phrase, level A2; written with the characters ს, ა, ხ, ლ, ი, ს, მ, ო, რ, თ, ვ, ა.
How is “სახლის მორთვა” written in Latin letters?
sakhlis mortva. 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?
Literally 'the adorning of the house'. The same verb about a person means to dress up: moirto means 'he dressed up'. 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.