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- სამსახურის ძებნაsamsakhuris dzebnato look for a job
“სამსახურის ძებნა” (samsakhuris dzebna) — to look for a job in Georgian. Phrase, level A2. The dz is one fused sound in a single motion, not d then z: dzeb-na. In a live sentence: “სამსახურის ძებნა ორი თვის წინ დავიწყე” (samsakhuris dzebna ori tvis tsin davitsqe) — I started looking for a job two months ago. You can hear how it sounds right here. Written with the characters ს, ა, მ, ს, ა, ხ, უ, რ, ი, ს, ძ, ე… A word from the everyday Georgian course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Georgian | სამსახურის ძებნა (samsakhuris dzebna) |
| Read in Latin letters | samsakhuris dzebna |
| Translation | to look for a job |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A2 |
How to pronounce it
the dz is one fused sound in a single motion, not d then z: dzeb-na
Why it looks that way
samsaxuri is a job as a place of service, samushao is work as a task; this phrase wants the first. dzebna is the same word as in the phone search: one word for any search
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.
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 look for a job” in Georgian?
«სამსახურის ძებნა» (samsakhuris dzebna), read “samsakhuris dzebna”. The dz is one fused sound in a single motion, not d then z: dzeb-na. In a live sentence: “სამსახურის ძებნა ორი თვის წინ დავიწყე” (samsakhuris dzebna ori tvis tsin davitsqe) — I started looking for a job two months ago. You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Phrase, level A2; written with the characters ს, ა, მ, ს, ა, ხ, უ, რ, ი, ს, ძ, ე…
How is “სამსახურის ძებნა” (samsakhuris dzebna) written in Latin letters?
samsakhuris dzebna. 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?
Samsaxuri is a job as a place of service, samushao is work as a task; this phrase wants the first. dzebna is the same word as in the phone search: one word for any search. 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 this 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.