dumaloy
dumáloy with stress marks
to flow
From root: daloy
Conjugations
Past (Completed)
dumaloy
du-MA-loy
flowed
Present (Incomplete)
dumadaloy
du-ma-DA-loy
is flowing
Future (Contemplated)
dadaloy
da-DA-loy
will flow
Usage Note
Dumaloy is the actor-focus form of daloy, built with the -um- infix, describing the intransitive flowing of liquids, traffic, electricity, or abstract forces such as ideas or emotion. Because daloy is inherently intransitive, no canonical object-focus counterpart exists for the act of flowing itself.
Examples
" Dumaloy ang tubig sa ilog. "
Natural Translation
The water flowed in the river.
Literal Translation
Flowed the water in river.
" Hayaan mo na dumaloy ang tubig sa kanal. "
Natural Translation
Let the water flow in the ditch.
Literal Translation
Let you to flow the water in ditch.
" Nang mabuksan ang pinto ng dam, mabilis na dumaloy ang tubig pababa sa mga bukid na matagal nang tuyo. "
Natural Translation
When the dam's gate was opened, the water quickly flowed down to the fields that had long been dry.
Literal Translation
When was-opened the gate of-the dam, fast flowed the water down to the fields that long already dry.
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