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    LESSON NOTES

    All About #3
    Painless Filipino Grammar

    CONTENTS
    2 Grammar

    # 3
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    GRAMMAR

    The Focus of This Lesson is Basic Filipino Grammar

    Learning grammar by using the terms and systems of grammar itself can always be a tricky
    part of learning another language. To make things smooth and easier to digest, we'll explain
    systems and rules using very basic grammatical terms and simple word or sentence
    examples.

    We will divide this chapter into parts, from nouns, verbs, and pronouns to help you better
    understand the language, thereby giving you a overall summary of the grammatical system of
    Filipino.

    Noun and Root Words

    Filipino nouns can be easily learned and remembered, because most root words are used as
    nouns. The root word itself remains as the basis of the word, and it is modified with markers to
    change its function into verbs or adjectives.

    For Example: Bato (Rock). Ba+Bato=Babato (To throw)

    Verbs

    The same way verbs are conjugated in English through passive, present, and future, Filipino
    also uses a similar function.

    For example:

    "I ate bread." = Kumain ako ng tinapay.

    "I am eating bread." = Kumakain ako ng tinapay.

    "I will eat bread." = Kakain ako ng tinapay.

    As you can see, the root word for Eat is Kain depending on the tense. The word Kain is
    modified in different ways. Kumain, Kumakain, and Kakain.

    Markers

    Markers are words that come before a noun to indicate the purpose of the noun in the
    sentence.

    Ang and Ng (Nang)

    Ang is used with the focus words in the sentence and Ng is used with the relational words.

    Example: With the sentence, Ang ganda ng babae ("The lady is beautiful"), the focus is the

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    beauty so put Ang before Ganda ("Beauty"/"Beautiful") and put ng before Babae ("lady").

    Sentence Structure

    Sentence structure in Filipino is as simple, as you will have the verb in the beginning then the
    pronoun and noun.

    For example:

    Maliligo ako. (Literal translation: "Shower I"; meaning: "I will take a shower.")

    Gigising ako nang maaga. (Literally:"Wake up I early"; meaning: "I will wake up early.")

    Though this is the basic way of constructing sentences in Filipino, you can also construct in a
    similar way to English.

    For example:

    Ako ay maliligo. (Literally: "I is take a shower."; meaning: "I will take a shower.")

    Ako ay gigising ng maaga. (Literally: "I is wake up early."; meaning: "I will wake up early.")

    When you are learning Filipino as a English speaker, this may be a more familiar way of
    understanding sentence structure. But the first example of "verb+noun" is still much simpler. It
    is also more natural to use conversationally. This second example is more for very formal or
    even only written material. It would be very unnatural to use it in conversations.

    Gender, Plural

    The easiest part to figure out in Filipino is that words don't change by gender or the number of
    persons (in singular or plural).

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