When to use it
Use it when driving in a city and you want cheap parking below ground.
The sentence in English (“I'm looking for cheap underground parking.”)
In “I'm looking for cheap underground parking.” two adjectives, ‘cheap’ and ‘underground’, sit before ‘parking’.
- I'm
- contractionbe · tense: present · person: first · number: singular · contraction of "I am"
- looking
- verblook · form: -ing form · "am looking for" is an action happening now
- for
- prepositionpreposition; "look for" means "search"
- cheap
- adjectiveadjective
- underground
- adjectiveadjective; below street level
- parking
- nounnoun
The sentence in Filipino (“Naghahanap ako ng murang paradahan sa ilalim ng lupa.”)
In “Naghahanap ako ng murang paradahan sa ilalim ng lupa.” ‘murang’ (cheap) comes before the noun with the linker ‘-ng’. There is no single word for ‘underground’: it says ‘sa ilalim ng lupa’, under the ground. The suffix ‘-han’ in ‘paradahan’ makes a place for parking.
- Naghahanap
- verbhanap · focus: actor (mag-) · aspect: imperfective · in progress: searching right now
- ako
- pronoun'I'
- ng
- prepositionmarker ng
- murang
- adjectivemura 'cheap' + linker -ng
- paradahan
- nounparada + -han 'place for parking'
- sa
- prepositionmarker sa
- ilalim
- noun'underside, under'
- ng
- prepositionmarker ng 'of'
- lupa
- noun'ground'
What changes from one language to the other (English × Filipino)
English has one adjective, ‘underground’; Filipino a three-word phrase, and a suffix ‘-han’ for places that English lacks.
Example conversation
— Naghahanap ako ng murang paradahan sa ilalim ng lupa.
— I'm looking for cheap underground parking.
— Kuwarenta pesos kada oras sa basement ng mall.
— The mall basement charges forty pesos an hour.