LingoflyYesterday: the past on -di
The past is a single tail -di and no helper verbs: bordim — I went, keldi — he came. English needs "went" or "did go"; here one ending carries the whole event. For example: “Kecha bozorga bordim.” — Yesterday I went to the bazaar. A rule from the Uzbek course: worked out on examples, not memorized as a wording.
How it works
The past is a single tail -di and no helper verbs: bordim — I went, keldi — he came. English needs "went" or "did go"; here one ending carries the whole event.
The person lives in the tail after -di: bordim — I, bording — you, bordik — we, bordingiz — you polite. With "u" and "ular" the form is one: bordi — both "he went" and "they went". The plural can be shown by the tail -lar, but it is often dropped.
Negation sits before -di: bormadim — I did not go, kelmadi — he did not come. The same -ma- you saw in "tushunmadim" — "I did not understand".
These forms are already familiar from the survival kit: "adashdim" — I got lost, "tushunmadim" — I did not understand. Now they have a rule.
Table
| who | bormoq | olmoq |
|---|---|---|
| I | bordim | oldim |
| you | bording | olding |
| he, she | bordi | oldi |
| we | bordik | oldik |
| you (polite) | bordingiz | oldingiz |
| they | bordilar | oldilar |
By example
- Kecha bozorga bordim.Yesterday I went to the bazaar
- Oʻtgan yili Buxoroga bordim.Last year I went to Bukhara
- Dorixonadan dori oldim.I bought medicine at the pharmacy
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
Yesterday: how does it work in Uzbek?
The past is a single tail -di and no helper verbs: bordim — I went, keldi — he came. English needs "went" or "did go"; here one ending carries the whole event.
What does it look like in a Uzbek example sentence?
“Kecha bozorga bordim.” — Yesterday I went to the bazaar. A rule is easier to test on sentences like this than to memorize as a wording: what surfaces in conversation is the sentence.