joylari

Joylari is a grammatical form found in Uzbek and other Turkic languages. It is not a separate lexical item with its own meaning, but a possessive plural construction built from the noun joy, meaning place or location. The form joylari is formed by adding the plural suffix -lar to joy to create joylar (places) and then adding the third-person possessive suffix -i, yielding joylari and translating roughly as “their places” or “its places,” depending on the context.

The exact possessor of joylari is determined by the surrounding sentence and discourse, since the suffix combines both number and person without requiring an explicit possessor pronoun. In practice, joylari can indicate ownership by a group or by a third-person singular entity, depending on what the speaker is referring to. The form is typical of the agglutinative morphology of Uzbek, where several suffixes can accumulate on a base noun to convey complex information about possession and plurality.

Usage notes:

- Joylari functions as a noun phrase meaning “their places” or “its places” and is used without repeating the possessor when the referent is clear.

- It can be modified by adjectives or other delimiters and appears in various syntactic positions, consistent with Uzbek word order and agglutinative syntax.

- Similar forms can be formed with other nouns by applying the same plural and possessive suffix pattern.

Etymology: Joylari derives from joy (place) plus the plural suffix -lar and the third-person possessive suffix -i, reflecting common Turkic morphophonemic rules. See also joy (place), Turkic suffixes, and Uzbek grammar references for related forms and rules.