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relative adjectives can have the comparative degree :
kichikroq,
kattaroq, yengilroq,
tirishqoqroq bola, mevaliroq daraxt, bilimliroq
talaba, g’ayratliroq yigit.
Substantivized adjectives in the English and Uzbek languages
have acquired some or sometimes all of
the characteristics of the
noun. Substantivized adjectives are devided into wholly substantivized
and partly substantivized adjectives. Wholly substantivized adjectives
have all the characteristics of nouns: the category of number, the
category of case, the category of definiteness/indefiniteness :
a native-
the natives
,
a native’s house
. Some wholly substantivized adjectives
have only the form of plurality:
eatables, valuables,
ancients
. Partly
substantivized adjectives acquire some of the characteristics of the
noun and they are used with the definite article. Partly substantivized
adjectives denote a whole class : the rich,
the poor , the unemployed.
These adjectives may also denote abstract notions : the good, the evil.
Substantivized adjectives denoting nationalities fall under wholly and
partly subsantivized adjectives. Wholly subsantivized adjectives are : a
Russian-
Russians, a German- Germans. Partly substantivized
adjectives are : the English, the French, the Chinese.
In the Uzbek language , in the course of historical development
some adjectives developed into nouns :
qiz, o’g’il, yosh, qari, erkak,
ayol, chol
. These substantivized adjectives can be combined with the
nouns and perform the function of the attribute : qiz bola, o’g’il bola,
yosh yigit, qari chol. Substantivization of
adjectives is displayed in
their being used in the syntactical functions of the noun. The adjectives
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