Language/Northern-uzbek/Grammar/Past-Perfect-Tense

Past Perfect Tense (Tugallangan o’tgan zamon).

This form is used when talking about completed action in a distant past, before the recent action took place. It is formed by adding edi – use to (that is the past participle), plus the possessive type of personal suffixes. The associated words with that tense are before – avval, oldin, ilgari.

For example:

• Men Fargo’onada bedana palovini yegan edim. Men Toshkentdan avval Gulistonda yashagan edim.

The negative is formed by adding to the verb stem the suffix -MA, plus the suffix -GAN, followed by the past ending edi plus the personal suffix

The negative may also be formed using the verb stem plus the suffix -GAN, followed by the negative copula emas, followed itself by the past copula edi plus the personal suffix.

• kelgan emas edim I hadn't come
• kelgan emas eding You hadn't come
• kelgan emas edi He/she/it hadn't come
• kelgan emas edik We hadn't come
• kelgan emas edingiz You hadn't come
• kelgan emas edilar / edi They hadn't come

Don't hesitate to look into these other pages after completing this lesson: Pronouns, Future Tense, Orthographic rules & Conditional Mood.

Sources

https://slaviccenters.duke.edu/sites/slaviccenters.duke.edu/files/file-attachments/uzbek.original.pdf

Other Lessons

• Present Continuous Tense
• Negation
• The verb KELMOQ – to come
• Compound verb
• Adjectives
• Postpositions
• Expressing a desire fo an action
• Formal and informal YOU
• Future Tense
• Comparative Adjectives