How to use demonstrative pronouns in Quechua

How to use demonstrative pronouns in Quechua

You want to learn how to use demonstrative pronouns in Quechua? You've come to the right place! Scroll down and see the short Quechua lessons complete with useful examples. This house, that house... we make learning Quechua demonstrative pronouns easy for you.

Quechua demonstrative pronouns : this

Demonstrative pronouns are used with nouns to make them more specific. The English demonstrative pronoun 'this' is 'kay' in Quechua.

Examples

kay liwru
this book
kay wasi
this house
kay maqt'a
this boy
kay tiyana
this chair
kay kawallu
this horse
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Basic words and phrases in Quechua

Learn to get by in Quechua with these useful words and phrases. The phrases below will help you to greet people in Quechua, introduce yourself in Quechua and even hold a conversation in Quechua after you have met someone.

kay kawallu
this horse
kay tiyana
this chair
kay wasi
this house
kay janp'ara
this table
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Step 6 : Quechua demonstrative pronouns

Demonstrative pronouns are used to refer to specific objects and their locations. In English, this would be the words this and these to refer to objects which are near and that and those to refer to objects which are further away. Using the nouns liwru, tiyana and punku (book, chair, door) which you learned in Step 3, learn to use the demonstrative pronouns with each of these nouns (this book, that chair, these doors). You can scroll to the top of this page to see a short lesson about Quechua demonstrative pronouns including useful examples. After you've learned to use the Quechua demonstrative pronouns with the nouns liwru, tiyana and punku and the plural nouns liwrus, tiyanakuna and punkukuna you can move on to Step 7 (Quechua adjectives).

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