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junt'u.cha.fia ‘to heat' (Calacoa)

kama. cha. fia ‘what to do' (all dialects) kama ‘how’
lik'i.ch. iri ‘fat-maker' (Salinas)

niya.cha.fia ‘to be nearly finished' (La Paz)

suma. cha. fia ‘to make amends, decorate' (La Paz)

In contemporary Aymara -cha- does not verbalize
animate nouns. Bertonio (1603b:273) gave the example
*gawra.cha-° ‘to create llamas' (said of God), but
Vasquez (La Paz/Tiahuanaco) rejected it in favor of
gawr uywa.fia 'to llama-raise' or gawr uh.s.ta.ya.fia
‘to make llamas appear' (metaphorical).

-cha- may also occur as a verbalizer of noun
stems ending in certain suffixes: -na possessive/
locational and -ni possessor. It is not always possible
to tell which of the two is occurring, because on such
stems the three-vowel rule applies (see 4-3.22.16),
causing the vowel of the noun suffix to drop before
-cha-. The following examples cited by Bertonio (1603b:

273) have the same meanings in La Paz today:

uma.n.cha.fia ‘to mix something dry with water'

quiigi.n.cha.fia ‘to make someone win (money)'