შენ რას ფიქრობ?
“შენ რას ფიქრობ?” (shen ras pikrob?) — what do you think? in Georgian. Phrase, level B1. The question is built so: ras — what, in the dative — plus pikrob, you think. Note that Georgian pikrob takes the dative where English takes a direct object. More polite: tkven ras pikrobt? In a live sentence: “შენ რას ფიქრობ ამ შეთავაზებაზე?” — And what do you think about this offer? You can hear how it sounds right here. A word from the everyday Georgian course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Georgian | შენ რას ფიქრობ? |
| Read in Latin letters | shen ras pikrob? |
| Translation | what do you think? |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | B1 |
- შენ რას ფიქრობ?shen ras pikrob?what do you think?
Why it looks that way
The question is built so: ras — what, in the dative — plus pikrob, you think. Note that Georgian pikrob takes the dative where English takes a direct object. More polite: tkven ras pikrobt?
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.
- შენ რას ფიქრობ ამ შეთავაზებაზე?shen ras pikrob am shetavazebaze?And what do you think about this offer?
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 “what do you think?” in Georgian?
«შენ რას ფიქრობ?», read “shen ras pikrob?”. In a live sentence: “შენ რას ფიქრობ ამ შეთავაზებაზე?” — And what do you think about this offer? You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Phrase, level B1; written with the characters შ, ე, ნ, რ, ა, ს, ფ, ი, ქ, რ, ო, ბ.
How is “შენ რას ფიქრობ?” written in Latin letters?
shen ras pikrob?. 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?
The question is built so: ras — what, in the dative — plus pikrob, you think. Note that Georgian pikrob takes the dative where English takes a direct object. More polite: tkven ras pikrobt? 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.