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Adjective-forming suffixes
Textbook: Part 3, pp. 77–79
GoalKnow the adjective-forming suffixes -li, -dor, -siz.
New words
having · -lihaving · -dorwithout · -sizfruitful · hosildor
Explanation
The suffixes -li, -dor, -siz are added to a noun base and make adjectives. -li and -dor give the meaning “having”: mazali (having taste, tasty), hosildor (high-yielding), guldor (flowered). -siz gives the meaning “without”: mazasiz (tasteless), hosilsiz, gulsiz. The new words answer Qanday? Qanaqa?.
Worked examples
maza — mazali — mazasiz; hosil — hosildor — hosilsiz; gul — guldor — gulsiz.
Hosildor yerda mazali bug‘doy o‘sadi. (Tasty wheat grows on high-yielding land.) Hosildor yer, mazali bug‘doy answer Qanday?.
Class activity
“Have – have not”: a child says a noun (suv); if the teacher says “bor” (have) the child says it with -li, if “yo‘q” (not) with -siz (suvli, suvsiz).
Practice
1
Make an adjective: kuch + -li.
kuchli
2
Make the opposite of mazasiz: maza + ?
mazali
3
hosil + -dor = ?
hosildor