Tagalog Grammar

The Tagalog grammar allows you to manipulate the vocabulary to obtain multiple forms of a word. The grammatical rules below are the most important in Tagalog and help connect words or shape the structure. We start with the prepositions:

And: at	Under: sa ilalim
Before: bago	After: pagkatapos
Inside: sa loob	Outside: sa labas
With: kasama	But: pero
For: para sa	From: mula sa
To: sa	In: sa

Questions and Adverbs

To ask questions, use the following:

What?: ano?	Who?: sino?
How?: paano?	Why?: bakit?
Where?: saan?

Some of the most important time adverbs:

Never: hindi kailanman	Rarely: madalang
Sometimes: kung minsan	Usually: karaniwan
Always: lagi	Very: napaka

Most commonly used pronouns in Tagalog:

I: ako	You: ikaw
He: siya	She: siya
We: kami	They: sila

To express the possession of something [possessive form]:

My: ko	Your: iyong
His: ang kanyang	Her: ang kanyang
Our: ang aming	Their: ang kanilang

Grammar in a sentence

Some random verbs to show how it's being used:

I speak English: nagsasalita ako ng ingles

You speak French: nagsasalita ka ng pranses

He speaks German: siya ay nagsasalita ng aleman

She speaks Italian: siya ay nagsasalita ng italyano

I visited France: binisita ko ang pransya

I will drink milk: iinom ako ng gatas

Some extra grammatical structures:

I understand you: nauunawaan kita

I don't understand you: hindi kita maintindihan

I don't speak French: hindi ako nagsasalita ng pranses

This is my house: ito ay ang aking bahay

That restaurant is far: restaurant na malayo

No problem: walang problema

The above Tagalog grammar can provide tools to use in coordination with the Tagalog vocabulary to obtain some popular Tagalog phrases.