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- თავს უკეთ ვგრძნობtavs uket vgrdznobfeel better
“თავს უკეთ ვგრძნობ” (tavs uket vgrdznob) — feel better in Georgian. Phrase, level A2. The vgrdzn cluster is four consonants in a row: vgrdznob. In a live sentence: “წამლის შემდეგ თავს უკეთ ვგრძნობ” (tsamlis shemdeg tavs uket vgrdznob) — After the medicine I feel better. You can hear how it sounds right here. Written with the characters თ, ა, ვ, ს, უ, კ, ე, თ, ვ, გ, რ, ძ… A word from the everyday Georgian course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Georgian | თავს უკეთ ვგრძნობ (tavs uket vgrdznob) |
| Read in Latin letters | tavs uket vgrdznob |
| Translation | feel better |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A2 |
How to pronounce it
the vgrdzn cluster is four consonants in a row: vgrdznob
Why it looks that way
Literally 'I feel the head better': tavi, the head, is the Georgian 'self'. Feeling unwell is tavs tsudad vgrdznob
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 “feel better” in Georgian?
«თავს უკეთ ვგრძნობ» (tavs uket vgrdznob), read “tavs uket vgrdznob”. The vgrdzn cluster is four consonants in a row: vgrdznob. In a live sentence: “წამლის შემდეგ თავს უკეთ ვგრძნობ” (tsamlis shemdeg tavs uket vgrdznob) — After the medicine I feel better. You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Phrase, level A2; written with the characters თ, ა, ვ, ს, უ, კ, ე, თ, ვ, გ, რ, ძ…
How is “თავს უკეთ ვგრძნობ” (tavs uket vgrdznob) written in Latin letters?
tavs uket vgrdznob. 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 'I feel the head better': tavi, the head, is the Georgian 'self'. Feeling unwell is tavs tsudad vgrdznob. 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.