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ერთ ქვასაც კი არ ჩააგდებდა

English translation: Would not throw even a single stone

23:27 May 2, 2018
Georgian to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature / Literature
Georgian term or phrase: ერთ ქვასაც კი არ ჩააგდებდა
Another literature question. I'd like to check that I've correctly understood the grammatical structure of this sentence:

მარიკა იყო მოსაწყენი, ერთ ქვასაც კი არ ჩააგდებდა ყოველდღიურობის მდინარეში, რომ რაღაცით მაინც აეღელვებინა ყოფის ჩვეული სვლა.

I think it means "Marika was bored, and yet she would not throw even one stone into ... in order to somehow stir up the mundane course of her existence"

i.e. even though she was bored, she wouldn't do anything to change her situation.

Thanks in advance as usual!
Philip Price
Local time: 21:33
English translation:Would not throw even a single stone
Explanation:
The meaning of მოსაწყენი is boring not bored. The meaning of the sentence is:
"Marika was boring, she would not throw even a single stone into the river of her daily life".
It means that Marika was a boring person herself who never thought to change anything in her daily life.
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Lela Nanuashvili
Georgia
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5Would not throw even a single stone
Lela Nanuashvili


  

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Would not throw even a single stone


Explanation:
The meaning of მოსაწყენი is boring not bored. The meaning of the sentence is:
"Marika was boring, she would not throw even a single stone into the river of her daily life".
It means that Marika was a boring person herself who never thought to change anything in her daily life.

Lela Nanuashvili
Georgia
Native speaker of: Native in GeorgianGeorgian
PRO pts in category: 35
Notes to answerer
Asker: That had never even occurred to me! Thanks so much.

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