Introduction to Tagalog Verbs (E64)

This video is the start of another HUGE chapter—the chapter on Tagalog VERBS.

Tagalog verbs are quite interesting. They are built differently compared to other languages like English and Spanish. Unlike English and Spanish, Tagalog verbs are not conjugated based on the subject of the sentence. Tagalog verbs are similar to Japanese in that they have one conjugated form regardless of the subject or the pronoun.

In this video, I will start using the Tagalog Verb Table to aide our discussion in understanding how Tagalog verbs work. This will be handy in our system of learning Tagalog verbs summarized into these four things:

• Tagalog verbs start with Root Words (salitang ugat) or “base word”
• Combining Root Word with Affixes create verbs. Affixes can be a prefix, suffix or infix. This combination produce the infinite form and imperative form of a Tagalog verb
• Tagalog verbs are conjugated according to Aspects and not tenses. Aspects point out to what is going on with the verb (the progressiveness of the action) as opposed to tenses that is points out to the timeline when an action is playing out.
• Tagalog verbs behave according to the Focus System (which, some linguists refer to “trigger system” or “voice system”). This is a system where the verb is hardwired to include references to “who is talking”, “who is the action for”, “what is the action for”, etc.

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TIME STAMPS
00:00 Introducing Tagalog verbs
00:55 Tagalog verbs are unique
02:51 Compared to English verbs
03:35 Unravelling the mystery of Tagalog verbs
04:07 The Tagalog verb table
04:34 Tagalog verbs start with Root Words
05:10 Root Words combine with Affixes
06:29 Conjugation using Aspects
10:05 The focus system
11:52 Four things to remember about verbs
12:23 Actor Focus and Object Focus
12:39 Final tips
13:24 Extro

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