Tagalog/filipino Help Thread.

[Guest cpopbaby19]

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Before anything...

I've been noticing in this thread that there's alot of people just telling that they can speak Tagalog and what not. Um, I don't think that fits to the thread because this thread does not really ask if there are soompiers who can speak Tagalog/Filipino/Other dialects and what not.

So please.. STOP POSTING THINGS LIKE "Um, Hi! I can help you guys in this thread because I know how to speak Tagalog. Thanks! See you around~" I don't mean to offend anyone but posts like that, I believe, are out of topic.

Can we only post here if you have anything to be translated to English or to Filipino or questions regarding grammar, synonyms, sentence construction and what not?

I don't want this thread closed or warned because there are alot of irrelevant posts. Thanks.

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Hello!

you can post whatever questions related to the filipino language [grammar, tenses, translations.. etc.] you name it. I guess y'all can also ask questions or translations for Bisayan/Ilocano/Kapampangan and other dialects in the philippines since there are soompiers who know how to speak them. and maybe even pronunciations.

feel free to ask whatever and we will answer your questions as clear as possible.

also, i made this thread to help soompi save up space. ^__^;

Also, if you guys have other links which aren't mentioned yet. post it up, and i'll edit it. [;

online english - tagalog dictionaries. [credits: google]

http://www.tagalog-dictionary.com/

http://www.foreignword.com/dictionary/Tagalog/

http://www.seasite.niu.edu/Tagalog/Dictionary/diction.htm

http://www.gabbydictionary.com/home.asp

http://www.multilingualbooks.com/onlinedicts-tagalog.html <- this site has LINKS to much more english-tagalog dictionaries and filipino (other dialects)-english online dictionaries

update: 3.15.07

http://learnfilipino.podomatic.com/ <- learn filipino site

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagalog_grammar

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_the_Philippines

Baybayin - Ancient/Primitive way of writing.. (not commonly used now..)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagalog_script

http://www.mts.net/~pmorrow/bayeng1.htm

http://www.ilocano.org/community/dictionary.php <- ilocano-english

FREQUENTLY ASKED:

--cpopbaby19

Magandang Umaga - Good Morning

Magandang Gabi - Good evening

Ako (ay) si (insert name) - I am (insert name)

Paalam (na) [add 'na' if you are talking to a person/someone]- Goodbye (formal way)

Ako - I

Siya - Him/her

Ikaw - You

Babae - Girl / woman

Lalaki - Boy / Man

Ano ang ginagawa mo? - What are you doing?

from here.

-- translations by uruchai

I am hungry - Nagugutom ako.

I am thirsty - Nauuhaw ako.

What is your name? - Anong pangalan mo?

My name is... - Ang pangalan ko ay... (sounds so formal though)

oh I also have to add that we also have respective terms for people..kinda like how Koreans say noona, oppa...

Ate [pronounced as ah-teh]- term for an older sister or a girl older than you (but still considered your peer or same age range)

Kuya - for an older brother or an older boy of same age range

Tita - aunt; also used to call older women whom you are close to, like a friend's mom

Tito - uncle; just like tita...

Lola - grandma

Lolo - grandpa

--Translations by july-eighth

Nasaan ang kubeta? - Where is the toilet?

Saan may doktor? - Where can I find a doctor?

Marunong ba kayo nang Ingles? - Do you know how to speak English?

Hindi ako marunong mag Tagalog. - I don't know how to speak in Tagalog.

Kayo ba si [insert here]? - Are you [insert here]?

Hmm... here are phrases I use everyday.

Ewan ko. - I don't know.

Kaunti lang. - A little bit.

Hindi bale. - Nevermind.

Bahala ka. - Whatever you want.

Siguro - Maybe

Kailan ba kayo aalis? - When are you leaving?

-- s1xt1n

*filipino alphabet is basically almost the same with english alphabet just da pronounciation*

>>filipino alphabet

letters: A B K D E G H I L M N NG O P R S T U W Y

pronounciation: ah ba ka da eh ga ha i la ma na nang oh pa ra sa ta uh wa ya

>>english alphabet

A B C D E F

ey bi si di ee ef

numbers

1 isa

2 dalawa

3 tatlo

4 apat

5 lima

6 anim

7 pito

8 walo

9 siyam

10 sampu

11 labingISA

12 labingDALAWA

13 labingTATLO

14 labingAPAT

15 labingLIMA

16 labingANIM

17 labingPITO

18 labingWALO

19 labingSIYAM

20 dalawampu

21 dalawapu'tISA

30 tatlumpu

40 apatnapu

50 limampu

60 ANIMnapu

70 PITUMpu

80 WALOmpu

90 SIYAMnapu

100 ISANg DAAN

200 DALAWANG DAAN

1000 ISANG libo

2000 DALAWANG libo

100000 - isang daang libo

200000 - dalawang daang libo

1000000 - Isang Milyon

2000000 - dalawang Milyon

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--babo_07

kamusta ka?- how are you

salamat- thank you

walang anuman- you're welcome

maligayang pasko- merry christmas

saan ka pupunta?- where are you going?

paalam- goodbye

ang ganda mo/ maganda ka- you're pretty

ang gwapo mo/gwapo ka- you're handsome

gusto kita- i like you

mahal kita- i love you

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I shall add more later. ^___^;

-Alexine

[xiam9]

Nice!!!

I've been wanting to make a Filipino help thread for a while now, but I wasn't too sure if people, especially those from other ethnicities, would be interested to even read bother clicking on it.

Anyway, I hope people would come and check this out!

Filipino is such a nice, warm and pleasant language. It wouldn't hurt to learn a phrase or two.

Here are a few of my favorite Filipino phrases:

Mahal kita- I love you

Gusto kita- I like you(I've never actually heard people say this, only in movies hehe!)

BRB! for more!

[ChunJin]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtKzysisDQw I saw this on youtube and I was like WOW o_O! lol!

The language is kind of weird ... Since there's a lot of dialects :\. My counters are weird metung, adwa etc. lol. I don't know how isa changes to metung and other words =p.

But here's non-dialect stuff =)

-> Kailangan ko ng taksi. [i need a taxi] (be careful! Lol crazy drivers >_<)

-> Papunta ako sa ____. [i am going to ___]. (example: Papunta ako sa Angeles City.)

-> Nasaan ang ___. [Where is ___]. (example: Nasaan ang mall?)

-> Gusto kong ___. [i want __]. There's a lot you can do with this.

--> Gusto kong pumunta sa Borocay. [i want to go to Borocay] (pumanta = go to place)

--> Gusto kong kumain ng pananghalian. [i want to eat lunch] (kumain = eat)

___ ako. <-- I'm ___ . Other words that can go with this [American = Americano, Korean = koreano, Japan = Hapon].

[Guest Melyxcious]

whoaaa o__O new reply box thingy x.x;

anyway.. FINALLY there's a thread for Tagalog.

=0=;;

I can so totally help out XD

I think o_o

..anything but numbers though.

x.x;;

anywayy.. yayyy :DDD

[uruchai]

wow, this is very good. it'll be really nice if people will be interested in learning Filipino/Tagalog. there's also this thing in our language called "Taglish". well, I use it all the time. I'll give some example (but not those annoying Taglish).

Are you going shopping? - Magsha-shopping ka ba? [in full Filipino words: Mamimili ka ba?]

Can you get my bag? - Pwede bang kunin mo ang bag ko? [i dont know the Filipino word of bag )

What's our food? - Anong food natin? [Anong pagkain natin?]

these are just some examples I can think of. basically, if you're cant quite express yourself fluently/fully using the language, substitute the English words.

[Guest renzu_oni]

whoaaa o__O new reply box thingy x.x;

anyway.. FINALLY there's a thread for Tagalog.

=0=;;

I can so totally help out XD

I think o_o

..anything but numbers though.

x.x;;

anywayy.. yayyy :DDD

oh dear, haha, same here. i mess up my numbers alot whether in bisaya or filipino...

[Guest mangchilo]

I think Tagalog's cool. ^^ I only know six or so Filipinos/as personally, though. Those're some good phrases to start with.

Salamat!

I have a question. So, Filipino is a language, right, but Filipino does not = Tagalog? Are they similar? Do people usually speak Filipino now or do most people just know it and speak Tagalog and other dialects most of the time? And are Tagalog and Bisaya mutually intelligible? Thanks to anyone who answers.

[Guest trippyx1]

AHHHH~

YES YES YES!!!

I LOVE PILIPINO<33333333

[xiam9]

wow, this is very good. it'll be really nice if people will be interested in learning Filipino/Tagalog. there's also this thing in our language called "Taglish". well, I use it all the time. I'll give some example (but not those annoying Taglish).

Are you going shopping? - Magsha-shopping ka ba? [in full Filipino words: Mamimili ka ba?]

Can you get my bag? - Pwede bang kunin mo ang bag ko? [i dont know the Filipino word of bag )

What's our food? - Anong food natin? [Anong pagkain natin?]

these are just some examples I can think of. basically, if you're cant quite express yourself fluently/fully using the language, substitute the English words.

I totally get what you mean by ANNOYING taglish!

Like when people say "can you MAKE sarado(close) the pintuan(door)?"(can you close the door?) OMG!!!!! that's not even grammatically correct! Get your taglish right people!!!!

And I agree with you, there are words that are hard to find the tagalog equivalent for(or if you do, it might sound too formal or even poetic hehe!) so everyone just uses the english word for it.

I think it would be really helpful for people who'd want to learn Filipino that we right down our examples exactly the way we say it.

Like, instead of:

Pwede bang kunin mo ang sapatos ko? - can you get my shoes (the word "ang" makes it sound too formal)

use this:

Pwede bang kunin mo yung sapatos ko?(interrogative)

or

Pakuha ng sapatos(command)

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joogrlpekaun

ALthough Filipino isnt the most widely spoken language in the Philippines, given the fact that only a small number of the population use it on a daily basis, mostly in NCR or National Capital Region, it is regarded to as the mother language.

You might be wondering why Filipino is the main language when only a tiny bit of the population uses(on a daily basis) it. That's because people of other dialects(?) knows a good amount of Filipino/tagalog and are able to communicate well with those who speak Filipino. So when someone from, say, a Filipino/tagalog-Speaking region visits a whatevadialect-speaking place, they're(whatevadialect) able to coomunicate with them.

As for those *pointing to myself* who knows nothing but Filipino and only a bit of tagalog, we feel so clueless and pathetic since people from other regions know how to speak Filipino even if they don't use it regularly, but we on the other hand don't understand there dialect.

Actually, the term "Filipino" only came about a few years ago, coz when I was still in elementary, we were taught that Tagalog was the national language.

Regarding your question if Filipino is different from Tagalog; Yes they are different.

The tagalog dialect is only one of the many that influences the Filipino language.

The Filipino language is composed of many borrowed words from english, tagalog, bisaya(dialect), spanish, hindu, chinese, malay and many x3 more.

(soory, I've completely forgotten my grammar lessons. There are actaully terms used for these)

If you're curious as to how the English language affects Filipino, Here's an example:

The word 'INFLUENCE' can be wrtitten in Filipino as 'INFLUENSIYA'.

Anyway, I don't know how to explain things further coz I've already forgotten the terms in Filipino grammar.

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I'm so pathetic, I don't know any other dialect but a small amount of Tagalog. And I'm not even that good at it!

I wish I can speak some really cool dialect like Chabacano or the dialect in Batanes. :blush:

[Guest renzu_oni]

I think Tagalog's cool. ^^ I only know six or so Filipinos/as personally, though. Those're some good phrases to start with.

Salamat!

I have a question. So, Filipino is a language, right, but Filipino does not = Tagalog? Are they similar? Do people usually speak Filipino now or do most people just know it and speak Tagalog and other dialects most of the time? And are Tagalog and Bisaya mutually intelligible? Thanks to anyone who answers.

Filipino, when it started is based from Tagalog then later on added some words from other dialects along the way. Since Filipino is mostly Tagalog, everyone can naturally understand it (i think) but not everyone can understand Bisaya, Ilonggo, Chabacano and all those other dialects unless you learn it. Although it'd be nice to speak Chabacano. ^^

[Guest aberkimbie]

aaahh. sweet. i can speak tagalog. [=

[ChunJin]

What are some good sites/books that deal with grammar? I always put ang, ng, ako etc. other word connectors/sentence connectors in the wrong place :\. I know some words [my aunt made me read a dictionary over the summer] but it didn't help me much other than know words =p.

I like this song -->

I Believe in Tagalog =).

[Guest sarah_luisa]

guys

question: OO na =means= saying yes but because the other speaker is so annoying and you just want to make her stop

cause i'm teaching my friend(not filipino) that it meant like that... because some other filipino(polite girl) teach her this

but she said OO NA meant yes in a polite way...

so, what is it really, polite or n0t?

[Guest lovenotee]

YAY for this thread! hehe I hope I can help out

[Guest the Human Hosepipe]

guys

question: OO na =means= saying yes but because the other speaker is so annoying and you just want to make her stop

cause i'm teaching my friend(not filipino) that it meant like that... because some other filipino(polite girl) teach her this

but she said OO NA meant yes in a polite way...

so, what is it really, polite or n0t?

It really isn't D:

It's more like, "Okay already!" when you're annoyed with someone.

[Guest sarah_luisa]

OO NA == okay already

when your annoyed with someone, okey tnx

[Guest M0GA]

finally! ahaha i've been meaning to learn tagalog for the longest time. mi parents never bothered to teach me and whenever i ask them to.. they say ok.. and then kinda leave it.. XD

[Guest MUGETSU]

Filipino isn't as hard because we don't have our own writing system.

Well we do but its no longer in use since we switch over to Roman letters during the colonization period.

[Guest kyelin]

Hello!

you can post whatever questions related to the filipino language [grammar, tenses, translations.. etc.] you name it. I guess y'all can also ask questions or translations for Bisayan/Ilocano/Kapampangan and other dialects in the philippines since there are soompiers who know how to speak them. and maybe even pronunciations.

feel free to ask whatever and we will answer your questions as clear as possible.

also, i made this thread to help soompi save up space. ^__^;

Also, if you guys have other links which aren't mentioned yet. post it up, and i'll edit it. [;

online english - tagalog dictionaries. [credits: google]

http://www.tagalog-dictionary.com/

http://www.foreignword.com/dictionary/Tagalog/

http://www.seasite.niu.edu/Tagalog/Dictionary/diction.htm

http://www.gabbydictionary.com/home.asp

http://www.multilingualbooks.com/onlinedicts-tagalog.html <- this site has LINKS to much more english-tagalog dictionaries and filipino (other dialects)-english online dictionaries

FREQUENTLY ASKED:

--cpopbaby19

from here.

-- translations by uruchai

--Translations by july-eighth

-- s1xt1n

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--babo_07

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I shall add more later. ^___^;

-Alexine

hi, i'm indonesian but i'm also interested in philippines language

i saw ur little dictionary but i'm still confuse about a little thing, hehe.. actually mostly ^^

so can i ask u a question :

u said : you = ikaw , rite?

but i saw ur examples : what are u doing? = ano ang ginagawa mo

my question : y ikaw changes to ano ?

thanks in advance, i will ask u later if i remember one

[Guest renzu_oni]

^

ano ang ginagawa mo? = what are you doing?

ano = what

mo = you

why mo is used and not ikaw has something to do with grammar which i find it hard to explain