Descriptions in Southern Quechua
Channel: Carlos Molina-Vital
Date: 06/11/2020

In this video we learn about the use of the adjectives in Southern Quechua in order to describe entities. We focus on emotions and other forms of psychological description. This allows us to distinguish between basic adjectives (e.g. kusi 'happy') and their verb-derived forms (kusi-sqa 'happy', 'content', from kusi-y 'to be happy', a verb of state). 


Finally, we talk about the use of -yuq, associated with a possessive construction (e.g. Qam allquyuq kanki 'you own a dog'). This construction is commonly used in descriptions, because a thing can be considered a defining characteristic of its owner.