qaytadi

Qaytadi is the third-person singular present tense form of the Uzbek verb qayt- meaning to return or to come back. It is widely used in everyday Uzbek to describe someone returning or to state a habitual action of returning. The form is constructed by adding the present-tense suffix -adi to the verb stem qayt-, yielding qaytadi.

The root qayt- derives from Turkic qayt- meaning to return. The suffix -adi marks third-person singular present, attached after the stem so the standard form becomes qaytadi. In the Latin-based Uzbek alphabet the word is written qaytadi; in older Cyrillic Uzbek it would be кайтади.

In sentences such as U qaytadi, the phrase means “He returns” or “He is coming back,” with the subject often explicit but sometimes omitted when it is clear from context. The form can indicate a habitual action, as in U har kuni qaytadi, meaning “He returns every day.” It appears in literature, journalism, and daily speech, reflecting ordinary event description and narrative pace.

Related forms include qaytish, a noun meaning “return” or “reversion,” and qaytdi, the past tense form meaning “he returned.” Other related verb forms include qaytgan, a participial form meaning “returned.” Uzbek orthography uses the Latin script, and the root with its cognates appears in related Turkic languages with similar semantic material.