SEMANTIC AND STRUCTURAL FEATURES OF IDIOMS IN ENGLISH AND UZBEK LANGUAGES.
Abstract
This article explores how English and Uzbek idioms work, comparing both their meanings and their underlying grammar. Because English relies on fixed word order while Uzbek uses a flexible, suffix-based structure, the two languages build and use idioms in very different ways. By comparing everyday examples from both languages, this study looks at how idioms are structured and how clear or hidden their meanings are, and where their imagery comes from. The paper groups these idioms into three translation types such as full matches, partial matches, and culture-specific gaps,offering useful guidelines for translators, language teachers, and dictionary creators.
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