It should be noted that the conjunctions rom and tu are not necessarily the first words in the subordinate clauses, as can be seen in these examples. The subjunctive screeve of the aorist series is known as the optative but, like the corresponding screeves of the present series, it also refers to present or future time. To express past modality the pluperfect has now largely displaced the perfect subjunctive in Modern Georgian, e.g. , . If I had written the book, I would now be working on a second one. The perfect screeve describes an action in the past, the result of which is evident in the present, hence the alternative names 'evidential' and 'resultant'.
Inversion occurs in the perfect as it does in all screeves of the perfect series.
The perfect is used to mark inferred action , where the speaker infers that an action must have taken place in the past. I recognize her hand. The use of the aorist in place of the perfect in past negations suggests an unwillingness to perform the action. The perfect is also used in reported actions not directly witnessed by the speaker, e.g. . Other verb constructions include the resultative formed using the verb 'to have' in combination with the past participle, e.g. , .