I can fill out a form: last name, first name and patronymic, place and date of birth, citizenship, an address with the building, apartment and floor, marital status — and understand the requests “fill it out” and “show your passport”.
Anketa: the fields, the last name, and the patronymic
Anketa: the fields, the last name, and the patronymic
A form is anketa in Uzbek. The request “fill in (the form)” is toʻldiring, from toʻldirmoq.
A field names something that belongs to the person, so its word takes the “his / her” ending: familiyasi, ismi, manzili, tugʻilgan joyi, fuqaroligi — here k → g, as in eshik → eshigi. The patronymic field is otasining ismi, literally “his father's name”.
Last names (familiya means “last name”, not “family”: that is oila): a man's ends in -ov or -yev (-ev after a consonant), a woman's in -ova or -yeva (-eva): Rahimov — Rahimova. Some last names have no such ending, for example Qodiriy.
The patronymic on a document is the father's first name plus oʻgʻli (“his son”) or qizi (“his daughter”): Ibrohim oʻgʻli, Ibrohim qizi.
On an Uzbek document the last name comes first: Petrova Anna. In conversation it's the other way round.
Common mistakes:
• ×about a daughter — Ibrohim oʻgʻli → Ibrohim qizi
• ×fuqaroliki → fuqaroligi
• ×on a form — Anna Petrova → Petrova Anna
Anketa: a sample
Rustam's form. The fields are words with the “his / her” ending: “his name”, “his address”.
| Field | What to write | Model |
|---|---|---|
| Familiyasi | last name | Yusupov |
| Ismi | first name | Rustam |
| Otasining ismi | patronymic | Ibrohim oʻgʻli |
| Tugʻilgan kuni | birthday | 1991-yil 14-mart |
| Tugʻilgan joyi | place of birth | Samarqand shahri |
| Fuqaroligi | citizenship | Oʻzbekiston |
| Manzili | address | Toshkent shahri, Navoiy koʻchasi, 12-uy, 5-xonadon |
| Telefon raqami | phone number | +998 90 123 45 67 |
| Imzo | signature | signed by hand |
Last name and patronymic: he and she
The form depends on whether the person is a man or a woman.
| What | man | woman |
|---|---|---|
| last name in -ov | Rahimov | Rahimova |
| last name in -yev | …yev | …yeva |
| after a consonant — -ev | …ev | …eva |
| patronymic on a document | Ibrohim oʻgʻli | Ibrohim qizi |
Lesson notes
Anketa: the fields, the last name, and the patronymic
A form is anketa in Uzbek. The request “fill in (the form)” is toʻldiring, from toʻldirmoq.
A field names something that belongs to the person, so its word takes the “his / her” ending: familiyasi, ismi, manzili, tugʻilgan joyi, fuqaroligi — here k → g, as in eshik → eshigi. The patronymic field is otasining ismi, literally “his father's name”.
Last names (familiya means “last name”, not “family”: that is oila): a man's ends in -ov or -yev (-ev after a consonant), a woman's in -ova or -yeva (-eva): Rahimov — Rahimova. Some last names have no such ending, for example Qodiriy.
The patronymic on a document is the father's first name plus oʻgʻli (“his son”) or qizi (“his daughter”): Ibrohim oʻgʻli, Ibrohim qizi.
On an Uzbek document the last name comes first: Petrova Anna. In conversation it's the other way round.
Common mistakes:
• ×about a daughter — Ibrohim oʻgʻli → Ibrohim qizi
• ×fuqaroliki → fuqaroligi
• ×on a form — Anna Petrova → Petrova Anna
Address, documents, and family
An address is manzil. It goes from the largest to the smallest: city, street, building, apartment — just as a full Uzbek date starts with the year: 2004-yil 5-iyun. The number is written in figures with a hyphen but read as an ordinal number: 12-uy — oʻn ikkinchi uy, 3-qavat — uchinchi qavat. You know the ending: -nchi after a vowel, -inchi after a consonant.
A newcomer's main documents: pasport, viza, and roʻyxatdan oʻtish — registration. The words you'll see on forms are in the table. In conversation you'll also hear spravka (from Russian) for a certificate, but the course uses the literary word maʼlumotnoma.
Uzbek has two words for “married”: uylangan for a man, turmushga chiqqan for a woman. About yourself, add the personal ending: men uylanganman, men turmushga chiqqanman. Learn these two phrases as a whole. The question takes -mi, as in charchaganmisiz?
Formal address: janob + the last name for a man (like “Mr. Nazarov”), but the first name + xonim for a woman: janob Nazarov, Dilnoza xonim.
Common mistakes:
• ×about a woman — uylangan → turmushga chiqqan
• ×uchnchi qavat → uchinchi qavat
• ×5-iyun 2004-yil → 2004-yil 5-iyun