Important Affixes Flashcards
Nominative (NOM)
-Ø
Accusative (ACC)
-ta
Genitive (GEN)
-pa
Allative (ALL) / Potential (POT)
-man
Ablative (ABL)
-manta
Locative (LOC)
-pi
Benefective (BEN)
-paq
Instrumentive/Comitative (INST/COM)
-wan
Reason (REA)
-rayku
Limit (LIM)
-kama
Path (PATH)
-nta
Agentive Nominalizer (AG.NMZ) / Habitual Past
-q
Event Nominalizer (EV.NMZ)
-y
Future Nominalizer (FUT.NMZ)
-na
Perfective Nominalizer (PRF.NMZ)
-sqa
Open Question / Coordinative (Q / and)
=taq
Interrogative Question / Negation (INT / NEG)
=chu
Topic marker (TOP)
=qa
Assertive marker (ASS)
=m(i)
Intersubjective marker (INTSBJ)
=iki / -m=iki
1st Person Singular (1SG)
-ni
2nd Person Singular (2SG)
-nki
3rd Person Singular (3SG)
-n
1st Person Plural Inclusive (1PL.INCL)
-nchik
1st Person Plural Exclusive (1PL.EXCL)
-niku
2nd Person Plural (2PL)
-nkichik
3rd Person Plural (3PL)
-nku
1st Person Singular Future Tense (1SG.FUT)
-saq
2nd Person Singular Future Tense (2SG.FUT)
-nku
3rd Person Singular Future Tense (3SG.FUT)
-nqa
1st Person Plural Inclusive Future Tense (1PL.INCL.FUT)
-paqchik
1st Person Plural Exclusive Future Tense (1PL.EXCL.FUT)
-paqchik
2nd Person Plural Future Tense (2PL.FUT)
-nkichik
3rd Person Plural Future Tense (3PL.FUT)
-nqaku
this (DEM1) / that (DEM2) / over there (DEM3)
kay / chay / wak
Durative (DUR)
-chka
Plural (PL)
-kuna
Reflexive (RFL)
-ku
Already (COORD)
=ña
Restrictive (RESTR)
-lla
I / you / (s)he/it
ñoqa / qam / pay
we (incl/excl) / you (PL) / they
ñoqa-(nchik/yku) / qam-kuna / pay-kuna
Don’t (NEG)
ama
1st Person Singular Past Tense (1SG.PST)
-rqa-ni
2nd Person Singular Past Tense (2SG.PST)
-rqa-nki
3rd Person Singular Past Tense (3SG.PST)
-rqa-Ø
1st Person Plural Inclusive Past Tense (1PL.INCL.PST)
-rqa-nchik
1st Person Plural Exclusive Past Tense (1PL.EXCL.PST)
-rqa-niku
2nd Person Plural Past Tense (2PL.PST)
-rqa-nkichik
3rd Person Plural Past Tense (3PL.PST)
-rqa-nku
Past marker
-rqa
Narrative past marker (speaker not there to witness event)
-sqa
Only / Just (RESTR)
-lla
And then (clitic)
-(ña)taq
Very (augmentative)
-llaña
As well (=ADD)
=pas