How do you say the suffix “ed” in the language Tagalog. For example, “asked” compared to “ask”?

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1. annely says:

   November 18, 2009 at 7:31 pm

   Turning a word into the past tense is not as easy in Tagalog as it seems in English. In fact, Tagalog doesn`t have "tense", it has "aspects" (completed, incompleted, contemplated). You also need to know the focus of verb, in order to add the right affix to it.

   A thorough explanation will be too lengthy to post here, but this web page describes aspects and focus very well:

   http://www.seasite.niu.edu/tagalog/Grammar%20Activities/Grammar%202/Verbal%20Aspect/Verbalaspect-fs.htm

   For example:
   to ask = magtanong
   asked = nagtanong
2. Sputnik says:

   November 18, 2009 at 7:31 pm

   You don’t want the suffix, you want to learn how to put verbs in the past tense. Unfortunately, I don’t know.