At the café in Georgian

Bread is at the heart of a Georgian table. შოთი, the long canoe-shaped loaf, is baked on the inside wall of a round clay oven, the თონე.

Asking for things

მინდა means “I want”. The thing usually comes first: ერთი ყავა მინდა, “one coffee I want”. Add თუ შეიძლება, “if it’s possible”, to make it polite.

Nouns ending in -ი

Most nouns end in a vowel, very often -ი: ყველი, პური, ჩაი. A word ending in -ი is usually a noun in its plain form.