LingoflyMore expensive and cheaper: the tail -roq
A comparison is assembled from one piece: -roq sticks to the word and means "more so". arzon → arzonroq, tez → tezroq, katta → kattaroq. The consonant adjusts too: after a voiceless sound it thickens — qimmatroq, after a voiced one it stays — arzonroq. For example: “Bozor doʻkondan arzonroq.” — The bazaar is cheaper than the shop. A rule from the Uzbek course: worked out on examples, not memorized as a wording.
How it works
A comparison is assembled from one piece: -roq sticks to the word and means "more so". arzon → arzonroq, tez → tezroq, katta → kattaroq. The consonant adjusts too: after a voiceless sound it thickens — qimmatroq, after a voiced one it stays — arzonroq.
The commonest words are irregular and come as a list: yaxshi → yaxshiroq — better, koʻp → koʻproq — more, kam → kamroq — less. You have already heard these tails: "Koʻproq choy, iltimos" — more tea, please.
"Than" is said by the suffix -dan: Bozor doʻkondan arzonroq — the bazaar is cheaper than the shop. The same -dan as in Toshkentdan — "from Tashkent": one suffix, two jobs.
The booster juda is not used with a comparative: arzonroq already means "cheaper", and "very cheaper" is not said.
Table
| plain | comparative |
|---|---|
| arzon — cheap | arzonroq |
| qimmat — expensive | qimmatroq |
| tez — fast | tezroq |
| katta — big | kattaroq |
| yaxshi — good | yaxshiroq |
| koʻp — much, many | koʻproq |
| kam — little, few | kamroq |
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
More expensive and cheaper: how does it work in Uzbek?
A comparison is assembled from one piece: -roq sticks to the word and means "more so". arzon → arzonroq, tez → tezroq, katta → kattaroq. The consonant adjusts too: after a voiceless sound it thickens — qimmatroq, after a voiced one it stays — arzonroq.
What does it look like in a Uzbek example sentence?
“Bozor doʻkondan arzonroq.” — The bazaar is cheaper than the shop. A rule is easier to test on sentences like this than to memorize as a wording: what surfaces in conversation is the sentence.