maghango
maghangò with stress marks
to lift off the fire
From root: hango
Conjugations
Past (Completed)
naghango
nag-ha-NGO
lifted off
Present (Incomplete)
naghahango
nag-ha-ha-NGO
is lifting off
Future (Contemplated)
maghahango
mag-ha-ha-NGO
will lift off
Usage Note
Maghango is the actor-focus mag- infinitive of hango, used when the person removing food from the heat — or rescuing someone from hardship — is the subject. The root carries both a culinary sense and a figurative sense of deliverance common in religious and motivational speech; the object-focus partner is hanguin.
Examples
" Maghango ka na ng kanin. "
Natural Translation
Go lift the rice off the fire now.
Literal Translation
Lift off the fire you now of rice.
" Oras na para maghango ng nilulutong kanin. "
Natural Translation
It is time to lift the cooked rice off the fire.
Literal Translation
Time now for to lift off the fire of being-cooked rice.
" Bago pa lumamig ang ulam, nag-utos ang lola na maghango na ako ng nilagang baka mula sa kalan. "
Natural Translation
Before the dish could even cool, grandmother ordered me to lift the boiled beef off the stove.
Literal Translation
Before yet cooled the dish, ordered the grandmother that lift off I of boiled beef from stove.
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