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Lesson 4 of 10

Counting to ten in Uzbek

One to ten, for prices, platforms, rooms and how many beers. Play the ten Uzbek words against the clock, with a note on how locals really use each one after every answer. All ten are written out below.

The four towers of Chor Minor in Bukhara, Uzbekistan
Counting to ten
10 words · 20 seconds each · 8 of 10 to pass
What it meansHow to say it
Petar Milošević, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

All 10 Uzbek phrases in this lesson

Birbeer
One

Bir is one, also means "alone" or "a". In measure words it becomes -ta: bir kitob (one book), ikkita kitob (two books).

IkkiIK-kee
Two

Part of the counting sequence. Ikki can stand alone or take the measure word -ta: ikkita kitob (two books).

Uchooch
Three

Continues naturally from ikki. Like all Uzbek numbers, straightforward and free of irregularities.

To'rttort
Four

Five is besh, six olti, seven yetti, eight sakkiz, nine to'qqiz, ten o'n. Uzbek numbers are straightforward.

Beshbesh
Five
Oltiol-TI
Six
Yettiyet-TI
Seven
Sakkizsak-KIZ
Eight
Toʻqqiztuq-QIZ
Nine
O'nohn
Ten

Twenty is yigirma, thirty o'ttiz, forty qirq, fifty ellik. The system is consistent with Turkic languages.

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