Ilocano Word Lists

419 Ilocano words and phrases grouped by topic, each with its Tagalog equivalent and an English gloss. Every entry comes from our curated phrasebook rather than the translation engine.

• Ilocano Greetings

  12 entries · Openers you will hear every day in Ilocos.

• Ilocano Polite Words and Phrases

  9 entries · Please, thank you, sorry, yes and no.

• Ilocano Phrases for When You Do Not Understand

  9 entries · Getting by when you do not follow.

• Ilocano Numbers

  37 entries · Native Ilocano numerals and their Tagalog equivalents.

• Ilocano Days, Months and Time Words

  29 entries · Telling the time, naming the day.

• Ilocano Food and Eating Words

  37 entries · The largest category, because meals are where the language lives.

• Ilocano Market and Money Words

  13 entries · Prices, haggling, paying.

• Ilocano Directions and Travel Words

  24 entries · Getting where you are going.

• Ilocano Emergency and Health Phrases

  15 entries · The phrases worth memorising before you need them.

• Ilocano Family and People Words

  15 entries · Relationships and forms of address.

• Ilocano Colours

  9 entries · Basic colour terms in both languages.

• Ilocano Months of the Year

  12 entries · The Spanish-derived month names, and where the two spellings part company.

• Ilocano Words for Getting Around

  17 entries · Buses, jeepneys, tickets and driving.

• Ilocano Words for Somewhere to Stay

  15 entries · Asking for a room and what is in it.

• Ilocano Words for Things to Buy

  21 entries · Everyday items you might need to ask for.

• Ilocano Words for Drinks

  8 entries · Water, coffee, milk and what to say when you order.

• Ilocano Words for Officials and Trouble

  8 entries · The phrases you hope not to need.

• Ilocano Words for Parts of the Body

  22 entries · Head to foot, with the words that differ most between the two languages.

• Ilocano Words for Animals

  10 entries · Everyday creatures, and a few that trip people up.

• Ilocano Words for Nature and Weather

  26 entries · Sun, rain, rivers and trees.

• Ilocano Everyday Verbs

  35 entries · The actions that carry most sentences.

• Ilocano Adjectives and Describing Words

  26 entries · Size, temperature, condition and quality.

• Ilocano Question Words

  10 entries · Who, what, where, when and how — including the saan trap.

Topics with only a handful of entries are not given their own page — they still appear in Practise these wordsthe full phrasebook.