Author: Sangheum, Yeon

Annotation: Uzbek and Korean are considered close languages. According to the morphological typology, Uzbek and Korean are known to be agglutinative languages. Therefore, there are similarities between auxiliary verbs in the construction of speech in both languages. Auxiliary verbs in both languages also have their own peculiarities. This article compares the modal meanings of olmoq/can– to take, bilmoq- to know and boʻlmoq- to be auxiliary verbs in Uzbek and their expression in Korean. In Uzbek, of olmoq/can – to take, bilmoq- to know auxiliary verbs mainly mean the modal meaning of ability, and boʻlmoq- to be auxiliary verbs have a modal meaning close to these auxiliary verbs.

Keywords: auxiliary verb, prepositional verb, consonant, affix, meaning, Uzbek, Korean.