Lesson 8: Root Words (The Bases Of Tagalog Nouns, Adjectives, And Verbs)

We previously learned about Markers, those tiny words that assign roles to nouns within a sentence. Naturally, we should be learning about nouns, but in the Tagalog language, nouns are part of a much larger grammatical entity that includes verbs and adjectives. We are going to learn about root words.

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