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Meanings of quechua in English
Language family spoken primarily in the Andes region of South America.
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Examples for "qu"
Examples for "qu"
1
Apparemment qu'il ne sera plus question de ce vilain Petersburg pour madame.
2
C'est dommage qu'il ne puisse pas combiner le plaisir avec les affaires.
3
I wish to hear people say of you, 'Ah qu'il est aimable!
4
Practice makes perfect; c'est a force de forger qu'on devient forgeron.
5
Nous perdons encore la vie avec joie, pourvu qu'on en parle.
1
In the Peruvian, or Quichua, I find rain, para; to rain, parani.
2
In the first place, Quichua abhors the shock of two consonants.
3
One of the centres of the ancient Quichua civilization was around Lake Titicaca.
4
Some posed as Quichua, living among the enemies who now occupied their lands.
5
If this be so, Quichua may be a linguistic missing link.
Usage of quechua in English
1
Shanjean Lee asks a Quechua woman for directions to the boulders.
2
Mardonio Borda is a 19-year-old native Quechua with broken Spanish and a sixth-grade education.
3
Quechua girls admire Andean mountain views on the Ausungate trail.
4
In addition to Spanish and the native language of Quechua, he spoke English and French.
5
Glaciers, another source of water for the Quechua, have also been affected by warming temperatures.
6
In the south, Aymara is chiefly spoken; but further north, Quechua is the commoner language.
7
The Quechua are the most numerous and widespread of about 50 indigenous groups in Peru.
8
We head out bouldering, and it's then that we run into the angry Quechua woman.
9
Quechua activists say they view themselves as indigenous.
10
There was the Quechua woman again on the Inca Trail, handing Amanda back her lost wallet.
11
Shrunken grandmothers in traditional Quechua garb coaxed llamas into tourists' photos in exchange for a few soles.
12
On my last day visiting her I took along a Quechua-speaking friend of mine, also from Ayacucho.
13
Most of them were native speakers of Quechua or Ashaninka, underscoring Peru's deep ethnic and cultural divide.
14
They should follow the Quechua example of trying to use water resources as efficiently as possible, she added.
15
Humala at the time specifically mentioned the Quechua as a group that would be covered by the law.
16
At dawn, lodge-keeper Orlando Garcia gently awakens his guests with a love song performed in the Quechua language.
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Quechua through the time