Tagalog questions help needed?
I've been trying to increase my Tagalog skills lately. How ever I'm doing a pretty lousy job thanks to my lack of resources. Anyway, I have some questions about a specific sentence.
This morning I herd the phrase "Masakit ang ulo ko." which I know (or think I know) means my head hurts. But I don't actually understand the vocabulary.
Ang means the?
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Hello
The word "ang" is like an emphasis so that the Filipino sentence/phrase would be grammatically
correct. To that sentence, "ang" can be removed, and it will still remain grammatically correct. That is an example of an exception, because it’s in the "karaniwang ayos ng pangungusap", which doesn’t contain I. If it is in the "di-karaniwang ayos", it’s arranged as "Ang ulo ko ay masakit", you can’t remove the word ang.
Like in phrases like "Ang babae ay maganda", you can’t remove "ang", it would be "Babae ay maganda", which needs the word "ang" in the beginning to emphasize and to direct the meaning to the word "babae".