Contemporary language use and vocabulary development have been influenced significaantly by the social media platforms in recent decades. The English-based digital terminology spreads quickly across online environments and is widely adopted by speakers of other languages. This study investigates the grammatical adaptation of social media terminology in the Uzbek language using examples from Instagram discourse. The research focuses on how borrowed lexical items such as post, story, reel, like, and follow become integrated into Uzbek grammatical structures. The analysis is based on qualitative linguistic examination of Instagram captions, comments, and user interactions produced by Uzbek-speaking users. The findings demonstrate that borrowed social media terms actively participate in the morphological and syntactic system of the Uzbek language. These lexical items frequently accept grammatical markers such as case suffixes, plural endings, and possessive forms, while also appearing in hybrid verbal constructions such as post qilmoq and layk bosmoq. The results further show that adapted social media terminology functions within Uzbek sentence structure as subjects, objects, and modifiers. Overall, the study highlights the role of digital communication in shaping contemporary linguistic change and demonstrates how global digital vocabulary interacts with the grammatical system of the Uzbek language.

Social media terminology, grammatical adaptation, Uzbek language

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