Appendix:Uzbek verbs

This page explains a summary of Uzbek verb conjugations.

Tenses edit

Conjugation of Uzbek verbs is a mix of agglutination and analyticism; there are some tenses that use auxiliary verbs.

Tenses/moods Suffix
Present-future -a/y
Present continuous -yap
-ayotir/yotir
-moqda
Present perfect -gan/-qan/-kan
Past -di
Story past -ib/-b
Indefinite future -ar/-r
Definite future -ajak/-ayajak
Intentional -moqchi
Conditional -sa
Imperative various suffixes

There are three distinct present continuous suffixes, the first two of which are cognates with Turkish yapmak and yatmak (+ relic simple present suffix *-ir), while the last one is cognate to the Turkish progressive suffix -mekte (see also: § Compound tenses). The present continuous suffixes also have distinct functions; -yap is to mark actions that occur at the time of speech, -moqda for actions that occur at or near the moment of speech, and -yotir for actions that have started but not yet ended (rarely used in speech).[1]

The definite future is actually rarely used but is implied to exist by the Özbekçe/Dilbilgisi page on Turkish Wikibooks.

The present perfect suffix -gan changes to -qan when the stem ends in -q and -gʻ and -kan when the stem ends in -k and -g.

Tenses 1st singular 2nd singular 3rd singular 1st plural 2nd plural 3rd plural
General -man -san -∅1 -miz -siz -lar
Past and conditional -m -ng -∅ -k -ngiz -lar
Imperative -ay/y -∅ -sin -aylik/ylik -ngiz -sinlar
1 In the present-future, present continuous I and story past tenses, the third-person singular ending is replaced by -di.

The third-person plural is often replaced by the third-person singular, thus the plurality of the third persons is by context.

Negation edit

Negation of Uzbek tenses is by the suffix -ma, placed after the stem and before the tense/mood suffix. However, the negative form of the indefinite future is -mas (a devoicing of earlier *-maz, from Proto-Turkic *-meŕ, which also serves as the negative aorist in Turkish (-mez) and indefinite future in Azerbaijani (-məz)) instead of *-mar, and the intentional mood is by using the third-person singular form + emas with the general personal suffixes, from the defective verb *emoq. There are two more ways to form the negative of the present perfect, with emas (kelgan emasman) or with yoʻq (kelganman yoʻq).

Interrogatives edit

To form interrogatives, the suffix -mi is used. However, in the present perfect, the suffix -mi is used before -san and -siz (kelganmi, kelganmisan, but kelganmanmi). This rule is also applied to predicatives, which are based on the general personal suffixes plus -dir in the third-person singular.

Compound tenses edit

  • Continuous past: formed from the indefinite future forms (-ar/-r) with edi (past tense of *emoq) (kelar edim).
  • Past perfect: formed from the present perfect forms (-gan) with edi (kelgan edim).
  • Intentional past: formed from the intentional forms (-moqchi) with edi (kelmoqchi edi).
  • Necessitative: formed from the verb stem + -ish + the possessive suffixes (-im, -ing, -i, -imiz, -ingiz) with kerak (kelishim kerak). The negative necessitative is formed with emas (the negative indefinite future of *emoq).

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