CHALLENGES AND STRATEGIES IN TRANSLATING TEMPORAL EXPRESSIONS FROM ENGLISH INTO UZBEK ( A CASE STUDY OF F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S THE GREAT GATSBY)

This article investigates translation difficulties associated with selected temporal expressions in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. Through qualitative comparative analysis, ten complete English sentences are examined alongside proposed Uzbek renderings. The examples organized into four overlapping problem areas: temporal reference and indefinite anticipation; grammatical aspect and irreversible change; repetition, cultural time and duration contrast, and metaphorical representations of the past and future. The study identifies cases in which direct lexical substitution changes narrative perspective, makes indefinite time unnecessarily exact, weakens aspectual meaning, or removes literary imagery. Context-sensitive Uzbek equivalents are proposed and assessed for semantic and stylistic adequacy. The results indicate that translation decisions should prioritize the relations expressed by temporal units and their narrative functions rather than isolated dictionary equivalence. The Uzbek versions in this article are research proposals, not quotations from a published translation.

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