Paired adjectives and their spelling
An adjective made of two close or opposite bases is a paired adjective. Its parts are written with a hyphen: shirin-shakar (sweet as sugar), past-baland (low and high), katta-kichik (big and small), oq-qora (white and black). Pairs of close meaning intensify the attribute: shirin-shakar. Pairs of opposite meaning show variety: past-baland tog‘lar (hills high and low). If the parts are linked with -u or -yu, the link is hyphenated to the first part and the second part is written separately: yakka-yu yagona.
“Find the pairs”: make paired adjectives from opposites (katta, past, yaxshi, qora) and write them with a hyphen.