LingoflyWhose house: the suffixes -im and -ning
"Mine" is not said as a separate word here — it sticks to the word itself: uy — house, uyim — my house, uyingiz — your house. The piece -im/-ing/-i/-miz/-ingiz/-lari takes the end of the word and does the whole job. For example: “Uyim yaqin.” — My house is close. A rule from the Uzbek course: worked out on examples, not memorized as a wording.
How it works
"Mine" is not said as a separate word here — it sticks to the word itself: uy — house, uyim — my house, uyingiz — your house. The piece -im/-ing/-i/-miz/-ingiz/-lari takes the end of the word and does the whole job.
Everything works this way: kalitim — my key, xonam — my room, bolam — my child. The pronoun mening can be added for clarity, but it is usually dropped: the suffix has already said it.
"Whose" is a suffix too, -ning: uyning kaliti — "the key of the house", literally house-key. The same piece works on people: Davronning doʻsti — Davron's friend.
The mistake is heard at once: "uy menim" without the suffix sounds as odd as English "house I".
Table
| who | house |
|---|---|
| I | uyim |
| you | uying |
| he, she | uysi |
| we | uyimiz |
| you (polite) | uyingiz |
| they | uylari |
By example
How the rule settles in your head
A rule is not memorized from an explanation. It is memorized from an attempt to use it and a mistake — that is why the app delivers it mixed in with words, not as a separate lesson: it resurfaces exactly where you forgot it.
Frequently asked
How to say my house in Uzbek?
"Mine" is not said as a separate word here — it sticks to the word itself: uy — house, uyim — my house, uyingiz — your house. The piece -im/-ing/-i/-miz/-ingiz/-lari takes the end of the word and does the whole job.
What does -im mean in uyim?
"Mine" is not said as a separate word here — it sticks to the word itself: uy — house, uyim — my house, uyingiz — your house. The piece -im/-ing/-i/-miz/-ingiz/-lari takes the end of the word and does the whole job.
How to say whose in Uzbek?
"Mine" is not said as a separate word here — it sticks to the word itself: uy — house, uyim — my house, uyingiz — your house. The piece -im/-ing/-i/-miz/-ingiz/-lari takes the end of the word and does the whole job.
How to say your key in Uzbek?
"Mine" is not said as a separate word here — it sticks to the word itself: uy — house, uyim — my house, uyingiz — your house. The piece -im/-ing/-i/-miz/-ingiz/-lari takes the end of the word and does the whole job.
What does it look like in a Uzbek example sentence?
“Uyim yaqin.” — My house is close. A rule is easier to test on sentences like this than to memorize as a wording: what surfaces in conversation is the sentence.