Filipino Negation

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Filipino Negation

Learning the Filipino Negation is very important because its structure is used in every day conversation. The more you practice the subject, the closer you get to mastering the Filipino language. But first we need to know what the role of Negation is in the structure of the grammar in Filipino.

Filipino negation is the process that turns an affirmative statement (I am happy) into its opposite denial (I am not happy). In Tagalog there are two words for negation wala, meaning not, there is not, ako wala pera, I have no money and ko alam I don’t know. Here are some examples:

As you can see from the example above, the structure of the Negation in Filipino has a logical pattern. Locate the Negation above and see how it works with the rest of the sentence in Tagalog.

List of Negation in Filipino

Below is a list of the Negation and negative expressions in Filipino placed in a table. Memorizing this table will help you add very useful and important words to your Filipino vocabulary.

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