Days, Months and Dates

Level 2

The days run from dushanba (Monday) to yakshanba (Sunday), and the months from yanvar to dekabr. Both are written in lowercase. A date looks like 5-mart, read beshinchi mart.

How It Works

Days of the week (hafta kunlari):

  • dushanba Monday, seshanba Tuesday, chorshanba Wednesday, payshanba Thursday
  • juma Friday, shanba Saturday, yakshanba Sunday

Months (oylar): yanvar, fevral, mart, aprel, may, iyun, iyul, avgust, sentabr, oktabr, noyabr, dekabr. Note the spellings sentabr, oktabr and noyabr.

Lowercase. Unlike English, Uzbek writes days and months with a small letter unless they start a sentence: Biz dushanba kuni uchrashamiz (We will meet on Monday). A holiday name is different: its first word takes a capital, as in Mustaqillik kuni (Independence Day).

Writing a date. A number in digits followed by a hyphen is an ordinal (see raqam + chiziqcha (tartib son)). So 5-mart is read beshinchi mart, and 2024-yil is read ikki ming yigirma toʻrtinchi yil. A full date starts with the year: 2024-yil 5-mart (March 5, 2024).

On, in, from and to.

  • On a day: dushanba kuni (on Monday), 5-mart kuni or 5-martda (on March 5).
  • In a month or year: mart oyida or martda (in March), 2024-yilda (in 2024).
  • From ... to: dushanbadan jumagacha (from Monday to Friday); see -gacha.

Asking. Bugun haftaning qaysi kuni? (What day of the week is it today?) and Bugun nechanchi sana? (What is the date today?).

Examples (6)

  1. Bugun dushanba.

    Today is Monday.

    Word by Word: Today Monday.

  2. Juma kuni kinoga boramiz.

    We're going to the cinema on Friday.

    Word by Word: Friday day cinema-to we-go.

    kuni after a day name means on that day.

  3. Tugʻilgan kunim 12-aprel.

    My birthday is April 12.

    Word by Word: Born day-my 12th-April.

    Read 12-aprel as oʻn ikkinchi aprel.

  4. Men 2001-yil 3-mayda tugʻilganman.

    I was born on May 3, 2001.

    Word by Word: I 2001st-year 3rd-May-on was-born-I.

    The year comes first, then the day and month.

  5. 1-sentabr Mustaqillik kuni.

    September 1 is Independence Day.

    Word by Word: 1st-September Independence day.

    The month is lowercase, but the holiday name starts with a capital.

  6. Bugun haftaning qaysi kuni?

    What day of the week is it today?

    Word by Word: Today week-of which day-its?

Common Mistakes

  • Capitalizing a day or month in the middle of a sentence.

    Biz Dushanba kuni uchrashamiz.
    Biz dushanba kuni uchrashamiz.

    Days and months are written in lowercase in Uzbek. Only holiday names such as Mustaqillik kuni take a capital.

  • Leaving out the hyphen after the number.

    Tugʻilgan kunim 12 aprel.
    Tugʻilgan kunim 12-aprel.

    The hyphen marks the number as an ordinal (twelfth). Without it, 12 reads as a plain count.

How It Connects

Tap a pattern to see what it builds on and what it leads to.

Days, Months and DatesLevel 2

Learn This First

Builds on Ordinal Numbers -(i)nchi and Telling the Time.

Words in This Pattern

dushanbaseshanbachorshanbapayshanbajumashanbayakshanbayanvarfevralmartaprelmayiyuniyulavgustsentyabroktyabrnoyabrdekabr