From root: gamot
Conjugations
Past (Completed)
nanggamot
nang-ga-MOT
treated or healed
Present (Incomplete)
nanggagamot
nang-ga-ga-MOT
treating or healing
Future (Contemplated)
manggagamot
mang-ga-ga-MOT
will treat or heal
Usage Note
Manggamot is used when referring to the professional or habitual act of treating patients or healing the sick, often implying a vocation like medicine or traditional healing. It focuses on the practitioner's activity rather than a specific object being cured.
Examples
" Gusto niyang manggamot ng may sakit. "
Natural Translation
She wants to treat the sick.
Literal Translation
Want she to-treat of sick.
" Nais niyang manggamot ng mga may sakit. "
Natural Translation
He desires to treat sick people.
Literal Translation
Desire he treat of plural have illness.
" Pinangarap niyang maging doktor para makapanggamot ng mga mahihirap sa kanilang malayong probinsiya. "
Natural Translation
She dreamed of becoming a doctor so she could treat the poor in their faraway province.
Literal Translation
Dreamed she to-become doctor so can-treat of plural poor in their faraway province.
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