Page "Screeve" Paragraph 0

A screeve is a term of grammatical description in traditional Georgian grammars that roughly corresponds to TAM ( tense – aspect – mood ) marking in the Western grammatical tradition.

It derives from the Georgian word mts ' k ' rivi ( მწკრივი ), which means " row ".

Formally, it refers to a set of six verb forms inflected for person and number forming a single paradigm.

For example, the aorist screeve for most verbal forms consists at least of a preverb ( და da -), a root ( წერ c ' er, " write "), and a screeve ending ( ე-e, ა-a, ეს-es ), and in the first and second persons a plural suffix ( თ-t ) to form the form ( დაწერეთ dac ' eret ):