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Pangasinan phrases with Ilocano translations

377 entries across 24 categories, compiled from published references rather than generated by the tool above. This set is compiled from general reference and is awaiting confirmation from native speakers, which is why each entry carries a pending-review marker.

PangasinanIlocanoEnglish
Maabig ya kabuasanNaimbag a bigatGood morning
Maabig ya ngaremNaimbag a malemGood afternoon
Maabig ya labiNaimbag a rabiiGood evening
Maabig ya agewNaimbag nga aldawGood day
Kumusta ka?Kumustaka?How are you?
Maabig akNasayaat metI'm fine
Onla ak laAgpakadaakonGoodbye
SalamatAgyamanakThank you
Dakel ya salamatAgyamanak unayThank you very much
Anggapoy anumanAwan ania manYou're welcome
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How Pangasinan and Ilocano differ

Pangasinan and Ilocano both belong to the Northern Luzon group of Austronesian, but to different subgroups within it — Pangasinan to Pangasinic, Ilocano to Ilocano. They share sentence structure and a layer of Spanish-era vocabulary; the everyday words are their own.

No, despite sharing a province border and a branch of the family. Both are Northern Luzon languages, but Ilocano and Pangasinan sit in different subgroups within it and the everyday vocabulary shows it: agew against aldaw for day, abung against balay for house, on against wen for yes. Pangasinan's numerals carry a counting suffix Ilocano does not use at all. Many people in northern Pangasinan speak both, which is bilingualism rather than intelligibility.

Pangasinan attaches a counting suffix to its numerals — sakey, duara, talora — and keeps say as its main noun marker, neither of which has a counterpart elsewhere on this list. Ilocano marks its nouns with ti and ti, uses the linkers a and nga, and has a dual pronoun meaning 'you and I' that Tagalog lacks entirely.

Words that exist in both languages and mean different things

These are where confident readers get caught, and where the translator above is least reliable — a word it does not recognise is passed through unchanged, which can land in the other language as a real word with an unrelated meaning.

  • lima

    Pangasinan: A hand. The numeral five is limara.

    Ilocano: Five.

  • tawen

    Pangasinan: The sky.

    Ilocano: A year.

Machine translation across Philippine languages fails in patterns rather than at random. We wrote up what those patterns are and why they happen, measured against Ilocano.

How accurate is it?

Neither Pangasinan nor Ilocano is a well-resourced language, and there is very little direct training data between them. The engine translates through English internally, so every result here is two translations stacked on top of each other, and the errors of the first are carried into the second.

We ran all 261 translatable entries in this phrasebook through the translator above and compared each against the human-written Ilocano. It matched or came close 56.7% of the time.

The reverse direction is not equivalent. Pangasinan → Ilocano scored 56.7% and Ilocano → Pangasinan scored 50.1% — a gap of 6.6 points on the same phrase set, so this direction is the one to trust more.

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Common questions

Is Pangasinan the same as Ilocano?
Pangasinan and Ilocano both belong to the Northern Luzon group of Austronesian, but to different subgroups within it — Pangasinan to Pangasinic, Ilocano to Ilocano. They share sentence structure and a layer of Spanish-era vocabulary; the everyday words are their own.
Can a Pangasinan speaker understand Ilocano?
No, despite sharing a province border and a branch of the family. Both are Northern Luzon languages, but Ilocano and Pangasinan sit in different subgroups within it and the everyday vocabulary shows it: agew against aldaw for day, abung against balay for house, on against wen for yes. Pangasinan's numerals carry a counting suffix Ilocano does not use at all. Many people in northern Pangasinan speak both, which is bilingualism rather than intelligibility.
How accurate is Pangasinan to Ilocano translation?
We measured it rather than guessing. Running all 261 translatable entries in our Pangasinan–Ilocano phrasebook through this tool, the machine output matched or closely matched the human-written Ilocano 56.7% of the time. It is weakest on courtesy (11%) and strongest on months (92%). The direction matters too: Ilocano → Pangasinan scored 50.1%, a gap of 6.6 points. Treat it as a helpful draft, not a finished translation.
Why did the translation come back exactly the same as what I typed?
Usually because the engine did not recognise the word and echoed your input rather than failing visibly. But check before assuming it is broken: 88 of the entries in our Pangasinan–Ilocano phrase data are genuinely spelled the same in both languages, including Ina (mother), Ama (father), Anak (child), Asawa (spouse). Unchanged output is not automatically wrong for this pair.
Which Pangasinan words mean something different in Ilocano?
lima — A hand. The numeral five is limara in Pangasinan, five in Ilocano; tawen — The sky in Pangasinan, a year in Ilocano. We document 2 of these for this pair. They are where the translator is least reliable, because a word it does not recognise is passed through unchanged and can land in the other language as a real word with an unrelated meaning.
How many people speak Pangasinan?
Pangasinan is spoken mainly in Pangasinan, Benguet (west), La Union (south), Tarlac (north). The 2020 census reports ethnicity rather than a separate speaker count for it, so we do not publish a speaker figure we cannot source. Figures elsewhere claiming far larger totals for these languages are generally not supported by census data.
Can I translate Ilocano to Pangasinan as well?
Yes — use the Ilocano to Pangasinan page, or press the swap button above the text box. We measured both: Pangasinan → Ilocano scored 56.7% and Ilocano → Pangasinan scored 50.1%. That is a real gap, so this direction is the more reliable of the two.
Is it free, and are there limits?
It is free with no account required. A single translation is capped at 5,000 characters, and there is a rate limit to keep the service available for everyone. There is no limit on how many translations you can do overall.

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Who maintains this

Compiled and maintained by John Smith. Last checked .

I compile Philippine-language phrase data from published references, check it against multiple sources, and measure the machine translation on this site rather than making claims about it. I am not a linguist. Entries I have not been able to confirm are marked as pending review rather than presented as verified.

No native Pangasinan speaker has reviewed this data yet. 377 phrasebook entries are marked pending review. See the phrasebook and its sources.

Translations are produced by a general-purpose machine translation engine and are not a substitute for a professional translator.