-(a)digan boʻlmoq

Coming to Do Something

Level 4

Verb + -(a)digan + boʻldi = it has come to be that...: yuguradigan boʻldim (I have started running), uchrashadigan boʻldik (we have agreed to meet).

How It Works

This pattern joins the -(a)digan participle with boʻlmoq (to become). The person and tense go on boʻlmoq, most often the simple past boʻldi.

1. Building it
After a consonant add -adigan, after a vowel add -ydigan, then add boʻldi with a person ending:

  • yugur- → yuguradigan boʻldim (I have started running)
  • gapir- → gapiradigan boʻldi (he has started talking)
  • oʻqi- → oʻqiydigan boʻldik (we have started studying, or we have agreed to study)

2. What it can mean

  • A new habit: Endi ertalab yuguradigan boʻldim. I have started running in the mornings. Words like endi (now, from now on) often come with it.
  • A new ability: Bolam gapiradigan boʻldi. My child has started to talk.
  • A settled plan: Ertaga uchrashadigan boʻldik. We have agreed to meet tomorrow.

3. The negative
Add -ma- before the participle ending: -maydigan boʻldi. It says a habit has stopped or a plan is now off: Otam chekmaydigan boʻldi (My father has stopped smoking), U kelmaydigan boʻldi (It turns out he will not come).

4. Do not mix it up with -gan boʻlmoq
With the past participle, -gan boʻlmoq says an action was done only for show or only on paper: eshitmagan boʻldi means he acted as if he had not heard. Only -(a)digan boʻlmoq announces a new habit or plan.

Examples (6)

  1. Endi ertalab yuguradigan boʻldim.

    I have started running in the mornings now.

    Word by Word: Now morning run-who became-I.

  2. U kelmaydigan boʻldi.

    It turns out he won't be coming.

    Word by Word: He not-come-who became.

    The negative says a plan has changed: he is now not coming.

  3. Ertaga soat oltida uchrashadigan boʻldik.

    We have agreed to meet at six tomorrow.

    Word by Word: Tomorrow hour six-at meet-who became-we.

  4. Bolam gapiradigan boʻldi.

    My child has started to talk.

    Word by Word: Child-my talk-who became.

  5. Otam chekmaydigan boʻldi.

    My father has stopped smoking.

    Word by Word: Father-my not-smoke-who became.

  6. Bu yerda ham avtobus toʻxtaydigan boʻldi.

    Buses now stop here too.

    Word by Word: Here also bus stop-which became.

    toʻxta- ends in a vowel, so the ending is -ydigan.

Common Mistakes

  • Using -gan boʻldi when you mean a new habit.

    Endi ertalab yugurgan boʻldim.
    Endi ertalab yuguradigan boʻldim.

    -gan boʻlmoq describes something done only for show, as in eshitmagan boʻldi (he pretended not to hear). A new habit needs -(a)digan: yuguradigan boʻldim.

  • Using the plain past, which reports one event instead of a change.

    Otam chekmadi. (meaning: My father has quit smoking.)
    Otam chekmaydigan boʻldi.

    Chekmadi only says he did not smoke at one time. To say he has given it up, use chekmaydigan boʻldi.

How It Connects

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-(a)digan boʻlmoqLevel 4Coming to Do Something

Learn This First

Builds on The Future-Habitual Participle -(a)digan and To Be, To Become.

Words in This Pattern

boʻlmoq