Talk:huwag

Adverb

@Mar vin kaiser Technically this can be written as Adverb and Adjective For Adverb = huwag tumalon sa labas = Do not jump outside. The not here modifies do jump, hence not is an adverb in English. For Tagalog, Huwag tumalon, huwag modifies tumalon. For Adjective = can be written as probihited or banned or disallowed. Huwag ka sa labas, can be said as You are not supposed to be outside. Or there's a hidden context here that Huwag ka [pumunta] sa labas. I'm leaning towards the adverb meaning than a pseudo-verb trying to match English as much as possible. What do you think? Ysrael214 (talk) 20:20, 3 September 2023 (UTC)

@Ysrael214: I think it's undeniable that the word "huwag" is unique, at the least. The word itself is an imperative, it commands someone to do something, anywhere you put it in a sentence or whatever the context, like in the sentence "Huwag dito." Sure, you may call it an adverb or an adjective, but normally, adverbs and adjectives aren't imperatives. Saying "magaling" or "tanga" is not a command to do something, unlike "huwag". I don't know how it is classified by Potet, but looking at Schachter-Otanes, they seem to classify it together with the word "hindi" and "aywan". --Mar vin kaiser (talk) 02:14, 4 September 2023 (UTC)