Lesson 5. Salomatlik: the body and how you feel

“My … hurts” in Uzbek is the body part with the “my / your / his” ending and the word ogʻriyapti: no “I have”. Uning koʻzi ogʻriyapti — “his eye hurts”. The ending shows whose: koʻzim, koʻzingiz, koʻzi. Before an ending that starts with a vowel, the stem changes — the familiar change: q → gʻ (quloq → qulogʻim; also tomoq → tomogʻim, oyoq → oyogʻim), k → g (yurak → yuragim). And the familiar dropped vowel: ogʻiz → ogʻzim; also qorin → qornim, burun → burnim. The other words of the set keep their stem: qoʻl → qoʻlim. The form is in parentheses next to each word and in the table. Words with two meanings: bosh is “head” (and “main”); yuz is “face” and “hundred”. Common mistakes: • NOT “Menda bosh ogʻriyapti”, NOT “Men bosh ogʻriyapti” → Boshim ogʻriyapti • NOT “quloqim” → qulogʻim • NOT “ogʻizim” → ogʻzim

Complaints. “I have a fever” is isitmam bor (literally “my fever exists”). “I've caught a cold” is the verb shamollamoq in the past tense: shamolladim. “I'm sick” is Men kasalman. Advice uses the request form you already know: -ng / -ing — “do”, -mang — “don't”: Koʻp choy iching. Koʻchaga chiqmang. Medicine is “drunk” in Uzbek: dori ichmoq. “Someone needs medicine” is built like other “need” sentences: …-ga dori kerak. An ambulance is tez yordam; you call it: tez yordamga qoʻngʻiroq qilmoq. Common mistakes: • NOT “Men isitma bor” → Isitmam bor • NOT “dori olmoq” for “take medicine” → dori ichmoq: dori olmoq means “to buy medicine”