Introduction to Quechua
General aspects of Quechua
- Quechua is a very regular agglutinative language.
- There are no irregular verbs.
- Suffixes are added to the root of the verb to create new words.
- For instance, K'oñi = Warm gives K'oñichiy = To get warm.
- In Quechua you don't have to worry whether a word is masculine or feminine.
- Quechua does not have definite and indefinite articles (like "the" and "a").
Plural
The plural is formed by adding "kuna", or specifying the number.
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