Difference between revisions of "Language/Northern-uzbek/Grammar/Compound-verb"

Compound verb is a complex predicate that functions as a single verb.  

One component of the compound verb is a light verb that provides only fine shades of meaning.  

The other, "primary", component is a verb, which carries most of the semantics of the compound.  

In Uzbek, in the Verb + Verb compound, the first verb is “heavier” and the second verb is “lighter”. That is removing the “light” verb will not semantically and grammatically affect the meaning.  

For example:  

*Alisher institutga bir yildan keyin qaitib keldi. Alisher returned to college after a year.  

Qaytib keldi is a V+V compound where first verb carries the main meaning “return” and the second means “came”. Compound verbs receives suffix only on the second word.  

For example:  

*Men atir gullarni yaxshi kuraman. I like roses.  

See the following conjugation of the compound verb dam olmoq – “to rest” in Present-Future tense.  

*Men dam olaman  

*Sen dam olasan  

*U dam oladi  

*Biz dam olamiz  

*Siz(lar) dam olasiz  

*Ular dam oladilar

==Source==

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