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Waray Everyday Verbs with Tagalog Translations

50 everyday verbs in Waray, each with its Tagalog equivalent and an English gloss. Entries come from our phrasebook, compiled from published references rather than produced by the translation engine. Waray entries are marked pending review until a native speaker has confirmed them.

Everyday verbs

The actions that carry most sentences.

Everyday verbs: Waray phrases with Tagalog and English translations
WarayTagalogEnglish
Katurogpending reviewMatulogTo sleep
Makitapending reviewMakitaTo see
Sumatanpending reviewSabihinTo sayIlocano and Pangasinan share 'ibaga' — but in Tagalog 'baga' is an ember, and in Ilocano it is the colour red.
Maarampending reviewAlamTo know
Karuyagpending reviewGustoTo wantKapampangan 'buri' is to want or like. In Tagalog 'buri' is a species of palm.
Humatagpending reviewMagbigayTo give
Magtrabahopending reviewMagtrabahoTo work
Lumakatpending reviewMaglakadTo walk
Magyakanpending reviewMagsalitaTo speakThe Visayan languages disagree with each other completely here — sulti, hambal, yakan — which is a useful corrective to the idea that they are one language.
Pamatipending reviewMakinigTo listen
Sumuratpending reviewSumulatTo write
Magbasapending reviewMagbasaTo read
Lumingkodpending reviewUmupoTo sit
Tumindogpending reviewTumayoTo stand
Dumalaganpending reviewTumakboTo run
Maghulatpending reviewMaghintayTo wait
Abrihanpending reviewBuksanTo open
Sarhanpending reviewIsaraTo close
Maghugaspending reviewMaghugasTo wash
Kumadipending reviewPumunta ritoTo come here
kagatpending reviewkagatTo bite
humodpending reviewsipsipTo suck
tuprapending reviewluwaTo spit
digwapending reviewsukaTo vomit
tayhoppending reviewihipTo blow (as wind)
ginhawapending reviewhingaTo breathe
tawapending reviewtawaTo laugh
dungogpending reviewdinigTo hear
arampending reviewalamTo know (a fact)
hunahunapending reviewisipTo think
amyonpending reviewamoyTo smell (sense odour)
hadlokpending reviewtakotTo fear
buhipending reviewbuhayTo live
mataypending reviewpatayTo die
pataypending reviewpatayTo kill
awaypending reviewlabanTo fight
anoppending reviewmangasoTo hunt (transitive)
bakdongpending reviewtamaTo hit
baripending reviewputolTo cut
lasipending reviewbiyakTo split
bunopending reviewsaksakTo stab (or stick)
kalotpending reviewkamotTo scratch (an itch)
hunggadpending reviewhukayTo dig
langoypending reviewlangoyTo swim
lupadpending reviewlipadTo fly
abotpending reviewdatingTo come
higdapending reviewhigaTo lie (as on one's side)
likdopending reviewlikoTo turn (change direction)
mahulogpending reviewhulogTo fall (as in drop)
sunogpending reviewsunoginTo burn (intransitive)

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