Uyghur/Grammar

Part of Speech

Pronouns

Personal Pronouns

Uyghur has one set for first-person and third-person. The second person pronouns comes with 3 sets that depends on the formality and politeness. The inflection of the pronouns depends on the number and cases.

• مەن<prn><pers><p1><sg> ↔ مەن
• سەن<prn><pers><p2><sg><infml> ↔ سەن
• سىز<prn><pers><p2><sg><pol> ↔ سىز
• بىز<prn><pers><p3><pl><gen> ↔ بىزنىڭ

Demonstrative Pronouns

Uyghur has several demonstrative pronouns that could be use as an emphasis or an intensifiers. The common usage is to refers to the distance from the speaker or the person/thing that is referred to. Demonstrative pronouns' inflection depends on the number and cases.

• مەشە<prn><dems><sg> ↔ مەشە
• ئاۋۇ<prn><dem><sg> ↔ ئاۋۇ

Nouns

Uyghur nouns has ten cases which, except for the nominative case, all have suffixation after the possessive or plural suffixes.

• كۈن<n><nom><sg> ↔ كۈن
• كۈن<n><gen><sg> ↔ كۈننىڭ
• كۈن<n><dg><sg> ↔ كۈنگە
• كۈن<n><acc><sg> ↔ كۈننى
• كۈن<n><loc><sg> ↔ كۈندە
• كۈن<n><abl><sg> ↔ كۈندىن