bumalikwas
Tagalog
Etymology
balikwas + -um-
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: bu‧ma‧lik‧wás
Verb
bumalikwas
- to rise from bed quickly and frightened from sleep
- 1996, Danton Remoto, Black silk pajamas: poems in English and Filipino (→ISBN)
- Bumalikwas din ang aming pusa mula sa kanyang siesta. Aba'y maging ang inaantok na hangin ay bigla-biglang nagising.
- Our cat suddenly rose from its siesta. And even the ailing wind suddenly woke up.
- Bumalikwas din ang aming pusa mula sa kanyang siesta. Aba'y maging ang inaantok na hangin ay bigla-biglang nagising.
- 1996, Danton Remoto, Black silk pajamas: poems in English and Filipino (→ISBN)
Inflection
Verb conjugation for bumalikwas
| Affix | Root word | Trigger | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| -um- | balikwas | actor | ||||
| Aspect | Imperative | |||||
| Infinitive | Complete | Progressive | Contemplative | Recently Complete | ||
| bumalikwas | bumalikwas bungmalikwas1 | bumabalikwas bungmabalikwas1 nabalikwas2 | babalikwas mabalikwas2 | formal | kababalikwas | bumalikwas balikwas2 |
| informal | kakabalikwas | |||||
| 1Now archaic in Modern Tagalog. 2Dialectal use only. | ||||||