LingoflySen and siz: informal and polite "you"
The polite "you" is siz — and it covers one person as well as a group. English needs "you" and "you all" where one word does both jobs. The verb beside it takes -siz: borasiz — "you go". For friends, peers and juniors people say sen, and the verb changes: borasan. For example: “Siz qayerda?” — Where are you? (polite). A rule from the Uzbek course: worked out on examples, not memorized as a wording.
How it works
The polite "you" is siz — and it covers one person as well as a group. English needs "you" and "you all" where one word does both jobs. The verb beside it takes -siz: borasiz — "you go". For friends, peers and juniors people say sen, and the verb changes: borasan.
To a group add -lar: senlar — "you all" among close ones, sizlar — to a group with elders present. The respectful aka — "elder brother" — sticks to a name. It is how you address a driver or a shopkeeper whose name you do not know.
The rule is simple: with strangers and elders, always siz. Only the older or the closer party may move to sen, and the move is offered, never taken. Switching to sen is a gesture of friendship.
Table
| To whom | Pronoun | Verb |
|---|---|---|
| to a close one | sen | borasan |
| to an elder or stranger | siz | borasiz |
| to a close group | senlar | borishadi |
| to a group with elders | sizlar | borasizlar |
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
Polite you in Uzbek?
The polite "you" is siz — and it covers one person as well as a group. English needs "you" and "you all" where one word does both jobs. The verb beside it takes -siz: borasiz — "you go". For friends, peers and juniors people say sen, and the verb changes: borasan.
Difference between sen and siz?
The polite "you" is siz — and it covers one person as well as a group. English needs "you" and "you all" where one word does both jobs. The verb beside it takes -siz: borasiz — "you go". For friends, peers and juniors people say sen, and the verb changes: borasan.
How to say you all in Uzbek?
To a group add -lar: senlar — "you all" among close ones, sizlar — to a group with elders present. The respectful aka — "elder brother" — sticks to a name. It is how you address a driver or a shopkeeper whose name you do not know.
Uzbek politeness forms?
The polite "you" is siz — and it covers one person as well as a group. English needs "you" and "you all" where one word does both jobs. The verb beside it takes -siz: borasiz — "you go". For friends, peers and juniors people say sen, and the verb changes: borasan.
What does it look like in a Uzbek example sentence?
“Siz qayerda?” — Where are you? (polite). A rule is easier to test on sentences like this than to memorize as a wording: what surfaces in conversation is the sentence.