gumawa-gawa
Tagalog
Etymology
From gawa-gawa + -um-.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: gu‧ma‧wa-ga‧wa
- IPA(key): /ɡumaˌwaɡaˈwaʔ/, [ɡʊmɐˌwaɰɐˈwaʔ]
Verb
gumawá-gawâ (complete gumawa-gawa, progressive gumagawa-gawa, contemplative gagawa-gawa)
- to make up; to fabricate (stories)
- Mukhang gumagawa-gawa lang ng tsismis ang mga dyaryo e.
- It looks like the newspaper was just making the gossip up.
- to do as a test; to do idly or without a definite aim
- Gumagawa-gawa lang ako ng disenyo na baka puwedeng imprentahin sa damit.
- I'm just making a design that could maybe get printed onto a shirt.
- complete aspect of gumawa-gawa
Conjugation
Verb conjugation for gumawa-gawa
| Affix | Root word | Trigger | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| -um- | gawa-gawa | actor | ||||
| Aspect | Imperative | |||||
| Infinitive | Complete | Progressive | Contemplative | Recently Complete | ||
| gumawa-gawa | gumawa-gawa gungmawa-gawa1 | gumagawa-gawa gungmagawa-gawa1 nagawa-gawa2 | gagawa-gawa magawa-gawa2 | formal | kagagawa-gawa | gumawa-gawa gawa-gawa2 |
| informal | kakagawa-gawa | |||||
| 1Now archaic in Modern Tagalog. 2Dialectal use only. | ||||||