Declension
As Aymara is an inflected language, its nouns must be declined for any utterance in this language to be considered grammatical.
Syntactic relations in Aymara are generally case-marked, with the exception of the unmarked subject. Case is affixed to the last element of a noun phrase, usually corresponding to the head. Aymara has 14 cases.
- ablative -ta
- accusative (indicated by vowel suppression)
- allative -ru
- benefactive -taki
- comparative -jama
- genitive -na
- instrumental/comitative -mpi
- interactive -pura
- locative -na
- limitative -kama
- nominative (zero)
- perlative -kata
- purposive -layku
Read more about this topic: Aymara Language
Famous quotes containing the word declension:
“And from the first declension of the flesh
I learnt man’s tongue, to twist the shapes of thoughts
Into the stony idiom of the brain....”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“And what if my descendants lose the flower
Through natural declension of the soul,
Through too much business with the passing hour,
Through too much play, or marriage with a fool?”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)