It literally translate to "of," for example: Init ng araw Heat of the sun or The sun's heat On the other hand, "nang" is usually used a. Examples: a. Tumakbo nang mabilis To run fast b. Alas dos nang hapon Two o'clock in the afternoon c. Umiyak nang umiyak Cry terribly or cry so much, as long as the meaning of the adjective or adverb is to be intensified.
Medyo naguguluhan lang po kasi ako sa dalawa. Nalilito ako kung paano sila gagamitin. Thank you for your answers! It really helps me. The one learning a language! Learn about premium features. The noun that follows after ng is the possessor noun, or let's say the owner of whatever item is being mentioned. With the example above, ng comes after the item or object owned and the owner or the possessor noun comes after ng.
This corresponds to 'of the' in English such as 'Cellphone of the technician. Nang and ng are easy to confuse with specially with usage. While ng is used with the mentioned ways above and pronunciation is hard to distinguish the two, it still gets confusing on how to use nang.
A trick to remember when to use nang is that, nang answers the question how in a sentence. In the above example, mabilis means fast. It answers the question how - How did the guy cook? He cooked fast. The lalaki or guy is the actor which is marked by ang.
Nagluto means cooked. It is in the past tense and is a MAG verb. Another example - Binasa nang malakas ng titser ang kwento. The story was read loudly by the teacher. In the second example above, malakas or loudly answers the question how the reading was done.
Nang is used as well for actions repeatedly done or actions the actor keeps on doing. While in English we say, 'The dog keeps running' or 'The kid keeps running,' to say that the action is continuously being done, nang is used in Filipino. One example is takbo nang takbo which means someone keeps on running. Adding to the usage of nang is as the conjunction when. Often you'll see or hear nang used linking two clauses. Example - Kalilinis lang ng bahay nina Rex at Precy nang dumating ang bisita.
Rex and Precy had just cleaned the house when the visitor arrived. Looking at the example above, the first clause 'Kalilinis lang ng bahay nina Rex at Precy' is linked to the second clause using nang.
Understanding the rules on using nang and ng as well as ang through this article along with given examples hopefully will ease the confusion. A good way of keeping on track and getting the hang of it with the right usage is focusing on just one of these three, moving on to the next two and using this article as a guide as needed.
Wrapping up this easy Filipino language lesson, let's take a look at the table below with the rules on when to properly use ang, ng and nang for a quick reference.
Maybe you have worked out the answer yourself by now but if not the clue is in the verb used which is object focus. To reverse the ang and ng in the sentence an actor focus verb like magdala could be the one to use. Can you then please explain why "The woman took the child to the station" is translated as "Inihatid ng babae ang anak sa istasyon"? Isn't the object in this sentence the child? Who was taken?
The child. Who is doing the taking? The woman. But I am told that is incorrect by my Filipino girlfriend who obviously knows Tagalog better than me, but can't explain why.
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