alok
álok with stress marks
offer
Usage Note
Alok covers both commercial offers and personal offers of help or hospitality, with the verb form mag-alok meaning to make an offer. In Filipino hospitality culture, making an alok of food or assistance is expected, and declining may require gentle insistence — it is central to the concept of pagkamapagbigay (generosity).
Examples
" Tinanggap ko ang alok niya. "
Natural Translation
I accepted his offer.
Literal Translation
Accepted I the offer his.
" Huwag mong tanggihan ang alok ng tulong ng iyong kapitbahay. "
Natural Translation
Don't reject your neighbor's offer of help.
Literal Translation
Don't you reject the offer of help of-the your neighbor.
" Pinag-isipan kong mabuti ang alok ng kompanya bago ko ito tinanggihan nang may paggalang. "
Natural Translation
I thought carefully about the company's offer before I respectfully declined it.
Literal Translation
Thought-about I-of well the offer of-the company before I it declined with respect.
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