Quechua is an agglutinative language, which means that morphemes are added to words to determine case, tense, aspect, or other grammatical functions. In Quechua, word stems receive suffixes to modify their function in a sentence. Let’s start this post by talking about possessive suffixes.

Using possessive suffixes in Quechua is the equivalent of using a possessive pronoun in English, specifically the following ones: my, our, your, his/her, their. These are the possessive suffixes, and the possessive pronoun they correspond to. Read more