The English uses the structure: Subject – Verb – Object (SVO), for example in the sentence ‘Maria is listening to music‘, the subject would be ‘Maria‘, the verb ‘is listening‘ and the object ‘music‘. This is the most usual in English, but it is such a flexible language that the order can vary without losing its naturalness.
In Quechua the order is different: Subject – Object – Verb (SOV), for example, the sentence of the previous paragraph in Quechua would be: ‘Maria, music is listening’, in Quechua this is the most usual, although like English It can be flexible in certain circumstances.
Due to this structure, suffixes that denote the object are needed, let’s start with the suffix -ta: