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Tagalog Noun Affixes
This is an excerpt from Learning Tagalog: Fluency Made Fast and Easy,
Course Book 3 .
noun affix meaning ETG
-an 1 a place where a large quantity of the thing p. 80/68
meant by the root is put, planted, or can be
found
-an 2 a place where the action expressed by the p. 81/69
root is performed
-an 3 a period in which the action expressed by p. 81/69
the root is collectively performed
-an 4 a tool or an object that is used to measure p. 82/69
what is meant by the root
-an 5 reciprocal or joint performance of the p. 82/70
action expressed by the root
-in an object of the action expressed by the p. 83/70
root
ka- a person or a thing with whom the place, p. 83/71
object, quality or situation expressed by
the root is shared
ka- +rep1, the act of doing the action expressed by the p. 84/71
kaka- root excessively or continuously
ka-…-an 1 a person with whom the thing meant by p. 84/72
the root is exchanged
ka-…-an 2 an idea or quality expressed in a general, p. 85/72
abstract way
ka-…-an 3 a group of the things meant by the root p. 86/73
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noun affix meaning ETG
mag- two persons or things having the p. 86/74
relationship expressed by the root
mag- +rep1 1 three or more persons or things having the p. 88/75
relationship expressed by the root
mag- +rep1 2 a person associated with the thing or p. 89/76
action expressed by the root
mang- +rep1 a person associated with the thing or p. 90/77
action expressed by the root
pa- the object of an action which has been p. 90/78
ordered or requested to be performed
pa-…-an 1 a place where the action expressed by the p. 91/79
root is performed
pa-…-an 2 a contest or a competition p. 92/79
pag- the act of doing the action expressed by the p. 92/79
root; or, the manner in which the action
expressed by the root is performed
pag- +rep1 the act of doing the action expressed by the p. 93/80
root repeatedly or habitually
pagka-, the act of having done the action expressed p. 94/81
pagkaka- by the root; or, the manner in which the
action expressed by the root was
performed
pakiki- a state or quality of being together p. 95/82
pakikipag- an action performed with someone p. 95/82
pang- a tool or an instrument that is used to p. 96/83
perform the action expressed by the root
pang- +rep1 an action or a practice associated with the p. 97/83
thing or action expressed by the root
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noun affix meaning ETG
tag- a season p. 97/84
taga- 1 a native or resident of p. 98/84
taga- 2, a person who performs the action p. 98/85
tagapag-, expressed by the root; or, a person who
tagapang- performs an action associated with the
thing expressed by the root
rep2-…-an an imitation of the thing meant by the root; p. 99/85
a surrogate
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