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
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