tagalog

tagalog — noun

1. the language spoken by millions of people in the Philippines, used especially ar

1.名詞B1
釋義

the language spoken by millions of people in the Philippines, used especially around the capital Manila, and the base of the national language Filipino

例句

Andrés is learning Tagalog because he was offered a job in Manila.

collocation: learning Tagalog

The restaurant menu was printed in both English and Tagalog.

passive: printed in + Tagalog

文法句型

Tagalog + verb (third-person singular)

in + Tagalog

speak/learn/know + Tagalog

用法筆記

Tagalog is the base of the official national language Filipino, and the two are largely mutually intelligible in spoken form. The word may also refer to a member of the Tagalog ethnic group from central Luzon, but that sense is less common in everyday English.

常見錯誤

❌She speaks Tagolog.
✅She speaks Tagalog.
💡The vowel in the middle syllable is 'a', not 'o'.
❌I studied Filipino, which is completely different from Tagalog.
✅I studied Filipino, which is based on Tagalog and very similar to it.
💡Filipino is the standardized national language; its grammar and vocabulary are built on Tagalog.