How do you ask and answer how old someone is in Uzbek? How do you find out where someone is from and greet properly? In this lesson, we practice dialogues with questions about age and other personal information, learn how to ask for a phone number, introduce people, and do all this in real, spoken Uzbek with audio from native speakers.
Understanding personal information — listening to and reading Uzbek
First, we will listen to and read two conversations.
Exercise 1. Read and listen to the dialogue. Then fill in the card with the missing information.
Peter U kim?
Abbos U Fotima. U mening sinfdoshim.
Peter U qayerdan?
Abbos U Turkiyadan.
Peter U necha yoshda?
Abbos Menimcha, u 22 yoshda.
Peter U juda chiroyli!
sinfdosh — classmate (here you can also use the phrase U mening sinfimdagi o‘quvchi. or U mening sinfimdagi qiz.)
kim — who
U necha yoshda? — How old is he/she?
Menimcha / O‘ylaymanki / Deb o‘ylayman — in my opinion, I think
Just in case, note that instead of the phrase U qayerdan? people often use U qayerlik? And let us remind you once again that to indicate a place of origin, the suffix -lik is also used, for example turkiyalik, xitoylik, etc.
Xalqaro talaba guvohnomasi (ID karta)
Ismi va familiyasi ___________ Saracho‘g‘lu
Millati ______________________
Yoshi _______________________
Exercise 2. Listen to the conversation. Fill in the missing words.
Abbos Salom, Peter. Qalaysiz?
Peter Salom, Abbos. Men yaxshiman, siz-chi?
Abbos Men ham yaxshiman. Fotima, bu Peter. Peter, bu Fotima. U mening 1_______im.
Peter Salom, Fotima!
Fotima Salom. Siz 2_______ sinfdasiz?
Abbos Ana u mening avtobusim! Xayr. 3________ ko’rishguncha!
Peter Xayr. Siz 4_________dansiz, Fotima?
Fotima Men 5_________danman. Bu mening avtobus bekatim. Xayr, Peter. Siz bilan tanishganimdan xursandman.
Peter Siz bilan tanishganimdan xursandman, Fotima. 6___________ raqamingiz necha?
Fotima Kechirasiz, mening avtobusim… To’qson to’rt bir yuz oltmish ikki…!
bekat — station, stop
ana u — over there
Did you understand how to introduce people in Uzbek? With the help of the demonstrative pronoun bu. For example: Fotima, bu Peter. Peter, bu Fotima.
And how do you ask for a phone number? Telefon raqamingiz necha? — What is your phone number? When answering this question, as in Russian, we say two or three digits at a time, that is, using hundreds and tens.
Qalaysiz? is used to ask “How are you?” One possible answer: “(Men) yaxshiman”.
Exercise 3. Listen to the conversation again and repeat it. Try to memorize it. Act out the conversation as close to the original text as possible.
How to ask and answer about age (how many years or months) in Uzbek
In Uzbek, there are at least two ways to ask and answer about age.
- necha/number + yosh + da + personal predicate ending (-man, -san, -siz, -biz, -sizlar)
Necha yoshdasiz? — How old are you?
(Men) yigirma yoshdaman. — I am 20 years old.
(Siz) ellik besh yoshdasiz. — You are 55 years old. - yosh + personal ending + necha/number + da
Yoshingiz nechada? — How old are you?
Yoshim oltmish birda. — I am 61.
Uning yoshi qirqda. — He is 40.
If someone is less than one year old, we use oylik — a certain number of months old.
U ikki oylik yoshda. — He/she is 2 months old.
olti oylik bola — a six-month-old child
Now you know how to ask in Uzbek “How old are you?”, how to correctly state your age, where you are from, and how to introduce people politely. Repeat the dialogues, listen to the audio, and move on to the next lesson — about interrogative words in Uzbek.
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- Next lesson: Lesson 28. Uzbek interrogative words
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Answers to the exercises and translation of the conversations
Show answers
Exercise 1. Fotima, turk, 22
Exercise 2. 1 sinfdosh 2 nechanchi 3 Ertaga 4 qayer 5 Turkiya 6 Telefon
Translation of the dialogues into English
Peter: Who is she?
Abbas: She is Fatima. She studies in my class.
Peter: Where is she from?
Abbas: She is from Turkey.
Peter: How old is she?
Abbas: I think she is 22 years old.
Peter: She is very beautiful!
Abbas: Hi, Peter. How are you?
Peter: Hi, Abbas. I’m fine, and you?
Abbas: I’m fine too. Fatima, this is Peter. Peter, this is Fatima. She studies in my class.
Peter: Hi, Fatima!
Fatima: Hi! What grade are you in?
Abbas: There’s my bus! Bye. See you tomorrow!
Peter: Goodbye. Where are you from, Fatima?
Fatima: I’m from Turkey. This is my bus stop. Goodbye, Peter. Nice to meet you.
Peter: Nice to meet you, Fatima. What is your phone number?
Fatima: Sorry, my bus… Ninety-four one hundred sixty-two…!