From root: iyon
Usage Note
Ganoon is the distal manner demonstrative — gaya + niyon — describing a way of being or doing that matches something far from the speaker or previously mentioned. It is the everyday colloquial form; the more formal and literary counterpart is gayon. Both appear in spoken and written Filipino, with ganoon dominant in casual registers.
Examples
" Ganoon talaga ang buhay. "
Natural Translation
That's just how life is.
Literal Translation
Like-that really the life.
" Bakit ganoon ang nangyari? "
Natural Translation
Why did it happen like that?
Literal Translation
Why like-that the happened?
" Kung ganoon na lang ang sasabihin mo, mabuti pang tumahimik ka na lang at huwag mo nang idagdag. "
Natural Translation
If that's all you're going to say, it's better that you just keep quiet and don't add anything.
Literal Translation
If like-that just the will-say you, better still be-quiet you just and don't you anymore add.
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