Ana = to be
• Rina = to go
• Shamuna = to
come
• Charina = to
have
• Munana = to
want
• Rimana = to
speak
• Llakina = to
love
• Rikuna = to
see
• Tukuna = to
become
• Yachauna = to
learn
• Yachana = to
know
• Mikuna =
food/to eat
• Upina = to
drink
• Wañuna = to
die
• Kawsana = to
live
• Yanuna = to
cook
• Purina = to
walk
• Tarabana = to
work
• Puñuna = to
sleep
Pita = Who
Piwa = Whose
Pita angi = Who are you?
Imata = What
• Ima raigu = Why (literally:
what reason)
• Imasna = How
Imata an = What is it?
Maita = Where
• Maibi = In where
• Maimanda = Where from
• Maima = where to
Maibi an? = Where is it?
Maimanda shamungi? = Where do you come from?
Killu = yellow/tan
• Puka = red/orange
• Wayllu = green
• Sani = purple/
iridescent
• Yurak/ruyak = white
• Yana = black
• Amsa = dark
• Ruku = old
• Malta = young
• Mushuk = new
• Suni = long
• Jatun = large
• Ichilla = small
• Sindzi = strong
• Sumak = beautiful
• Irizda = ugly/bad
• Putus = fluffy
• Llausa = slimy/slick
• Punzu = curly
• Muyu = round
• Chiri = cold
• Rupak = hot
• Milli = fierce
• Uyarik = noisy
• Chunlla = quiet
• Kushi = happy
• Llaki = sad
• Yapa = very
• -shina = -like
Machin araña = tarantula
Sacha wagra = tapir
Iluku = potoo bird
Kushillu = kinkajou
Kindi = hummingbird
Wangana = peccary
Sapu = frog
Kalikali = Amazon parrot
Tutapishku = bat
Amarun = boa/anaconda
Machin = spider monkey
Sikwanka = toucan
I = Ñuka (-i)
• You = Kan (-ngi)
• Y’all = Kanguna (-ngichi)
• We = Ñukanchi (-nchi)
• 3rd person singular (she/he/it/
sing. they) = Pay (-n)
• 3rd person plural (pl. they) =
Payguna (-nun)