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Tagalog to Pangasinan Translation

Translate Tagalog to Pangasinan instantly, then check the result against a 377-entry phrasebook compiled by hand rather than generated by the tool.

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Tagalog phrases with Pangasinan 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.

TagalogPangasinanEnglish
Magandang umagaMaabig ya kabuasanGood morning
Magandang haponMaabig ya ngaremGood afternoon
Magandang gabiMaabig ya labiGood evening
Magandang arawMaabig ya agewGood day
Kumusta ka?Kumusta ka?How are you?
Mabuti namanMaabig akI'm fine
PaalamOnla ak laGoodbye
SalamatSalamatThank you
Maraming salamatDakel ya salamatThank you very much
Walang anumanAnggapoy anumanYou're welcome
All 377 phrases

How Tagalog and Pangasinan differ

Tagalog and Pangasinan sit on separate branches of Austronesian: Tagalog in the Central Philippine group, Pangasinan in the Northern Luzon group. They are related in the way English and Russian are related — the same family, far enough apart that the relationship is a fact about history rather than something a speaker can use.

No. Speakers of Tagalog and Pangasinan cannot follow each other without having learned the other language. They share sentence structure and Spanish loanwords, which makes written text look more approachable than it is, and almost none of the high-frequency vocabulary.

Tagalog is the basis of Filipino, the national language, so its vocabulary reaches every province through school and media — which is why speakers of the other seven usually understand it and the reverse is rarely true. 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.

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.

  • sira

    Tagalog: Broken, spoiled, ruined.

    Pangasinan: Fish.

  • lima

    Tagalog: Five.

    Pangasinan: A hand. The numeral five is limara.

  • akin

    Tagalog: Mine.

    Pangasinan: Why.

  • labi

    Tagalog: Lips; also leftover or excess.

    Pangasinan: Night.

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 Tagalog nor Pangasinan 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 377 translatable entries in this phrasebook through the translator above and compared each against the human-written Pangasinan. It matched or came close 62.1% of the time.

The reverse direction is not equivalent. Tagalog → Pangasinan scored 62.1% and Pangasinan → Tagalog scored 66.3% — a gap of 4.2 points on the same phrase set, so the other direction is the one to trust more.

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Common questions

Is Tagalog the same as Pangasinan?
Tagalog and Pangasinan sit on separate branches of Austronesian: Tagalog in the Central Philippine group, Pangasinan in the Northern Luzon group. They are related in the way English and Russian are related — the same family, far enough apart that the relationship is a fact about history rather than something a speaker can use.
Can a Tagalog speaker understand Pangasinan?
No. Speakers of Tagalog and Pangasinan cannot follow each other without having learned the other language. They share sentence structure and Spanish loanwords, which makes written text look more approachable than it is, and almost none of the high-frequency vocabulary.
How accurate is Tagalog to Pangasinan translation?
We measured it rather than guessing. Running all 377 translatable entries in our Tagalog–Pangasinan phrasebook through this tool, the machine output matched or closely matched the human-written Pangasinan 62.1% of the time. It is weakest on market & money (13%) and strongest on things to buy (100%). The direction matters too: Pangasinan → Tagalog scored 66.3%, a gap of 4.2 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: 82 of the entries in our Tagalog–Pangasinan phrase data are genuinely spelled the same in both languages, including Kumusta ka? (how are you?), Salamat (thank you), Taon (year), Ina (mother). Unchanged output is not automatically wrong for this pair.
Which Tagalog words mean something different in Pangasinan?
sira — Broken, spoiled, ruined in Tagalog, fish in Pangasinan; lima — Five in Tagalog, a hand. The numeral five is limara in Pangasinan; akin — Mine in Tagalog, why in Pangasinan. We document 8 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 Tagalog?
The 2020 Philippine census recorded Tagalog as the language generally spoken at home in about 10.52 million households, and 26.0% of the household population identified as ethnically Tagalog. Spoken at home in 39.9% of Philippine households. Filipino, the national language, is standardised Tagalog — which is why both share the code 'tl'. Figures elsewhere claiming far larger totals for these languages are generally not supported by census data.
Can I translate Pangasinan to Tagalog as well?
Yes — use the Pangasinan to Tagalog page, or press the swap button above the text box. We measured both: Tagalog → Pangasinan scored 62.1% and Pangasinan → Tagalog scored 66.3%. That is a real gap, so the reverse direction is actually 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 Tagalog 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.