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Functional forms of the verb
Textbook: p. 53
GoalKnow the four functional forms of the verb and tell them apart.
New words
functional form · vazifa shaklifinite verb · sof fe’lverbal noun · harakat nomiparticiple · sifatdosh
Explanation
Verbs can link with other words in a sentence and serve as predicate, subject, object, adverbial or modifier. For this, the verb takes special forms. The verb forms specialized for serving as different sentence parts are called functional forms. A verb has four: 1) the finite verb (o‘qidi) — serves as predicate; 2) the verbal noun (o‘qimoq, o‘qish) — specialized for the noun; 3) the participle (o‘qigan, oqar) — specialized for the adjective; 4) the adverbial participle (o‘qib, kelgach) — specialized for the adverb.
Worked examples
The child read a book (finite verb). Reading is light (verbal noun). A child who has read (participle). He read the book through (o‘qib — adverbial participle).
Yozmoq, yozish, yozuv — verbal noun forms.
Class activity
“Four forms”: the teacher shuffles cards with four forms of o‘qimoq; children group them by function.
Practice
1
List the functional forms of the verb.
Finite verb, verbal noun, participle, adverbial participle.
2
Which form is a participle: o‘qidi, o‘qigan, o‘qib?
o‘qigan
3
What functional forms are yozish and yozib?
Yozish — verbal noun; yozib — adverbial participle.
4
Why is o‘qidi a finite verb form?
It takes tense and person-number suffixes and serves as predicate.