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People: Who? Who (plural)?
Textbook Part 2, pp. 12–15
GoalAsk Kim? and Kimlar? about people.
New words
Who (many)? · Kimlar?pupils · o‘quvchilarbuilder · quruvchi
Explanation
The name of one person answers Kim? (Who?): o‘quvchi (pupil). The name of more than one person answers Kimlar? (Who — many?): o‘quvchilar (pupils). Here too the ending -lar means “many”.
Worked examples
Quruvchilar yangi maktab qurdi. (Builders built a new school.) — quruvchilar answers Kimlar?
Shifokor bemorni davoladi. (The doctor treated the patient.) — shifokor answers Kim?
Class activity
“Jobs”: the teacher acts out a job (cook, driver). Children guess it and say it in singular and plural: oshpaz — oshpazlar.
Practice
1
What question fits bolalar (children)?
Kimlar?
2
Make it plural: o‘qituvchi (teacher)
o‘qituvchilar
3
Find the word that answers Kim?: Oshpaz palov pishirdi. (The cook made plov.)
oshpaz (cook)