Tagalog Word Lists

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

• Tagalog Greetings

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

• Tagalog Polite Words and Phrases

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

• Tagalog Phrases for When You Do Not Understand

  9 entries · Getting by when you do not follow.

• Tagalog Numbers

  37 entries · Native Ilocano numerals and their Tagalog equivalents.

• Tagalog Days, Months and Time Words

  29 entries · Telling the time, naming the day.

• Tagalog Food and Eating Words

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

• Tagalog Market and Money Words

  13 entries · Prices, haggling, paying.

• Tagalog Directions and Travel Words

  24 entries · Getting where you are going.

• Tagalog Emergency and Health Phrases

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

• Tagalog Family and People Words

  15 entries · Relationships and forms of address.

• Tagalog Colours

  9 entries · Basic colour terms in both languages.

• Tagalog Months of the Year

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

• Tagalog Words for Getting Around

  17 entries · Buses, jeepneys, tickets and driving.

• Tagalog Words for Somewhere to Stay

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

• Tagalog Words for Things to Buy

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

• Tagalog Words for Drinks

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

• Tagalog Words for Officials and Trouble

  8 entries · The phrases you hope not to need.

• Tagalog Words for Parts of the Body

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

• Tagalog Words for Animals

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

• Tagalog Words for Nature and Weather

  26 entries · Sun, rain, rivers and trees.

• Tagalog Everyday Verbs

  35 entries · The actions that carry most sentences.

• Tagalog Adjectives and Describing Words

  26 entries · Size, temperature, condition and quality.

• Tagalog 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.