“Is the supermarket open on Sundays?” in Filipino

When to use it

Use it to check whether a supermarket opens on Sundays before you plan your shopping.

The sentence in English: “Is the supermarket open on Sundays?”

In “Is the supermarket open on Sundays?” ‘Is’ moves before the subject; the plural ‘Sundays’ means every Sunday.

Is

verbbe · tense: present · person: third · number: singular · form of "to be"; it moves to the front to make the question

the

determinerdefinite article

supermarket

nounnoun

open

adjectiveadjective; in English a shop "is open"

on

prepositionpreposition used with days of the week

Sundays

nounplural noun; days of the week take a capital letter

The sentence in Filipino: “Bukas ba ang supermarket tuwing Linggo?”

In “Bukas ba ang supermarket tuwing Linggo?” the adjective ‘Bukas’ (open) comes first, because Filipino has no ‘to be’ here. Careful: ‘bukas’ means both ‘open’ and ‘tomorrow’; here it is ‘open’. ‘tuwing Linggo’ means every Sunday.

Bukas

adjectiveadjective 'open'; here not 'tomorrow'

ba

particlequestion particle

ang

prepositiontopic marker ang

supermarket

nounnoun from English

tuwing

preposition'every, on every'

Linggo

proper noun'Sunday', capitalised

What changes from one language to the other: English × Filipino

English uses ‘Is’; Filipino has no verb and starts with the adjective. ‘every Sunday’ is ‘tuwing Linggo’, not a plural day.

Example conversation