ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend: Switch tonew thesaurus Noun1. Tagalog- a member of a people native to the Philippines chiefly inhabiting central Luzon around and including Manila Philippine Islands,Philippines- an archipelago in the southwestern Pacific including some 7000 islands ...
Tagalog Words: Yy yaang yabag yabang yabong yagit yago yagong yagpag yagyag yakag yakagin yakal yakap yakapin yakis yakyak yaman yamang yamas yamba yambaan yamo yamot yamukmok yamungmong yamungmungan yamutin yamutmot yan yangasngas yangit yangkaw yangot yangyangan yanig yanigin yano ...
However, it is an expression that originates from the wordsbabaeandlalakethat mean respectively woman and man, expressing a mixture of both, so this slang sometimes is defined as “a man with a woman’s heart”. We see, therefore, that the term bakla mixes sexual orientation, identity, an...
24 Rarely Used Filipino Words You Need to Know
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Tagalog has some unique sounds like “ng” (think “sing”) and the glottal stop (like the pause in “uh-oh”). These sounds a very, very common in Tagalog. Meanwhile, in this aspect, Indonesian is simpler with fewer sounds or phonemes. This is likely because Bahasa Indones or Indonesi...
34 Tagalog Slang Words for Everyday Use 6 Untranslatable Tagalog Words Explained How to Conjugate Filipino and Tagalog Verbs: Types and Tenses 24 Rarely Used Filipino Words You Need to Know
Verbs are action words. In Tagalog, "verb" is "pandiwa." Examples of root verbs in Tagalog are "lakad" ["walk"], "maneho" ["drive"], "laba" ["wash"], "laban" ["fight"] and "linis"["clean"]. These root verbs can be transposed also to be in their past, present and future...
3. pala part. when used after hindi, expresses contrast with one's expectation, a reversal. Ang isip ko'y balat lamang ng itlog ito, hindi pala, kundi itlog na buo. I thought this was only an eggshell, but no, it was a whole egg....
k tend to be pronounced [kx] at the beginning of words. Between vowels it is often pronounced [x] g tends to be pronounced [ɰ] between vowels. h is often not pronounced in rapid speed ng is pronounced [m] before b and p, and [n] before d,t, s and l ...