Editing Quechuan languages (section)

===Verbs===
The [[infinitive]] forms have the suffix ''-y'' (e.g.''., much'a'' 'kiss'; ''much'a-y'' 'to kiss'). These are the typical endings for the [[indicative]] in a Southern Quechua (IIC) dialect:
{| style="margin:auto;"  class="wikitable"
!
! Present
! Past
!Past habitual
! Future
! [[Pluperfect]]
!Optative
|- style="background:#f0f8ff;"
! ñuqa
| -ni
| -rqa-ni
| -qka-ni
| -saq
| -sqa-ni
| -yman
|- style="background:#f0f8ff;"
! qam
| -nki
| -rqa-nki
| -qka-nki
| -nki
| -sqa-nki
| -nki-man
-waq
|- style="background:#f0f8ff;"
! pay
| -n
| -rqa(-n)
| -q
| -nqa
| -sqa
| -nman
|- style="background:#f0f8ff;"
! ñuqanchik
| -nchik
| -rqa-nchik
| -qka-nchik
| -su-nchik
| -sqa-nchik
| -nchik-man
-sun(-chik)-man

-swan
|- style="background:#f0f8ff;"
! ñuqayku
| -yku
| -rqa-yku
| -qka-yku
| -saq-ku
| -sqa-yku
| -yku-man
|- style="background:#f0f8ff;"
! qamkuna
| -nki-chik
| -rqa-nki-chik
| -qka-nki-chik
| -nki-chik
| -sqa-nki-chik
| -nki-chik-man
-waq-chik
|- style="background:#f0f8ff;"
! paykuna
| -n-ku
| -rqa-(n)ku
| -q-ku
| -nqa-ku
| -sqa-ku
| -nku-man
|}

The suffixes shown in the table above usually indicate the [[grammatical subject|subject]]; the person of the [[grammatical object|object]] is also indicated by a suffix, which precedes the suffixes in the table. For the second person, it is ''-su-'', and for the first person, it is ''-wa-'' in most Quechua II dialects.  In such cases, the plural suffixes from the table (''-chik'' and ''-ku'') can be used to express the number of the object rather than the subject. There is a lot of variation between the dialects in the exact rules which determine this.<ref>Wunderlich, Dieter (2005). [http://www.zas-berlin.de/fileadmin/mitarbeiter/wunderlich/Quechua_Leipzig.pdf Variation der Person-Numerus-Flexion in Quechua] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240526071115/http://www.zas-berlin.de/fileadmin/mitarbeiter/wunderlich/Quechua_Leipzig.pdf |date=2024-05-26 }}. Flexionsworkshop Leipzig, 14. Juli 2005]</ref><ref>Lakämper, Renate, Dieter Wunderlich. 1998. Person marking in Quechua: a constraint-based minimalist analysis. Lingua 105: pp. 113–48.</ref><ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/sfb282/C9/lak/ |title = Lakämper, Renate. 2000. Plural- und Objektmarkierung in Quechua. Doctoral Dissertation. Philosophische Fakultät der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929210539/http://www.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/sfb282/C9/lak/ |archive-date=29 September 2007 |url-status=dead}}</ref> In Central Quechua, however, the verbal morphology differs in a number of respects: most notably, the verbal plural suffixes ''-chik'' and ''-ku'' are not used, and plurality is expressed by different suffixes that are located ''before'' rather than after the personal suffixes. Furthermore, the 1st person singular object suffix is ''-ma-'', rather than ''-wa-''.<ref>Adelaar 2007: 189</ref>