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Unit 1: Let's Meet

In this unit, let's learn how to get acquainted with one another.

After completing the activities in this unit, you will be able to:

  • recognize some common greetings and expressions
  • greet and say goodbye to people
  • introduce myself and ask someone their name
  • use appropriate levels of politeness with different groups of people
  • ask and answer questions about age
  • ask and answer questions about origins
  • ask and answer questions about nationality
  • ask and answer questions about languages

You also will have learned about the following structures:

  • word order in Western Armenian
  • all affirmative and some negative present tense, current reality conjugations of ըլլալ ("to be")
  • some affirmative and negative present tense, current reality conjugations of ունենալ ("to have")
  • all affirmative and some negative present tense, current reality conjugations of գիտնալ ("to know")
  • introduction to definite articles
  • indefinite articles
  • introduction to cases
  • nominative case of some personal pronouns
  • genitive case of some personal pronouns (AKA possessive adjectives)
  • ablative case of origin
  • -ցի suffix for demonyms