Tagalog Grammar Guide
Start your Tagalog grammar knowledge building here! Learn about the mechanics of the language and how English words and phrases naturally integrate into sentences! This Tagalog grammar guide is structured so each lesson builds on the previous one. You will first learn how to make simple descriptive sentences, then incorporate action, then apply tenses to it to make simple action sentences. We then combine multiple sentences into coherent sentence, then we learn shortcuts on how to speak it in daily conversations.
This guide will teach you how to speak Tagalog spoken in daily conversations — Taglish! Filipinos use a lot of English words and phrases in casual speech, making it the de facto spoken language — at least in Manila and nearby areas. So, if you can read this, congratulations — you are at least 10% fluent in Taglish without even starting!
Basic Grammar
- Describing in Tagalog: Simple Predicate-Subject Sentences
- Tagalog Action Sentences: Sentences with Verbs
- Understanding Focus — The “Ang” and “Ng” Focus Markers
- Understanding the Target — The “Sa” Target Marker
- Intro to Tagalog Verb Conjugations and Affixes
- Tagalog “Mag” Verbs (Actor-Focus)
- Tagalog Tenses — No, Call it Tagalog Aspects!
- Tagalog “Ma” Verbs (Actor-Focus)
- Tagalog “Um” Verbs (Actor-Focus)
- Tagalog “In” Verbs (Object-Focus)
- Tagalog “I” Verbs (Object-Focus)
- English Verbs in Tagalog Sentences — Basic Taglish Conjugation
- Basic Tagalog Grammar Summary — EXERCISES!
Core Grammar
- Your Guide to Tagalog Nouns — More Tagalog Affixes
- Tagalog Personal Pronouns — Saying You and I in Tagalog
- Describing Stuff with Tagalog Adjectives — Tagalog Modifiers