ma- -an
Tagalog
Alternative forms
- ma- -han
- ma- -nan
Circumfix
ma- -an (Baybayin spelling ᜋ ◌ᜈ᜔ or ᜋ ᜀᜈ᜔)
- Actor trigger - to suffer the quality of adjective indicated
- Actor trigger - to attribute certain quality to something
- ganda (“beauty”) + ma- -an → magandahan (“to find something beautiful”)
- pangit (“ugliness”) + ma- -an → mapangitan (“to find something ugly”)
- laki (“size”) + ma- -an → malakihan (“to find something big”)
- liit (“smallness”) + ma- -an → maliitan (“to find something small”)
- haba (“length”) + ma- -an → mahabaan (“to find something long”)
- iksi (“shortness”) + ma- -an → maiksian (“to find something short”)
- bigat (“heaviness”) + ma- -an → mabigatan (“to find something heavy”)
- gaan (“lightness”) + ma- -an → magaanan (“to find something light in weight”)
Derived terms
Tagalog terms circumfixed with ma- -an
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