lagnat
lagnát with stress marks
fever
Usage Note
Lagnat is the standard word for fever, but in everyday speech the verb form nilalagnat is more natural for describing someone currently sick — saying nilalagnat ako is the normal way to express having a fever. It is also the more precise term to reach for when temperatura feels too clinical.
Examples
" May lagnat ang bata. "
Natural Translation
The child has a fever.
Literal Translation
Has fever the child.
" May lagnat ako ngayong araw. "
Natural Translation
I have a fever today.
Literal Translation
Has fever I today.
" Hindi siya nakapasok sa trabaho kahapon dahil tumaas nang husto ang kanyang lagnat kinagabihan. "
Natural Translation
She could not go to work yesterday because her fever rose sharply that evening.
Literal Translation
Not she able-to-enter at work yesterday because rose very-much the her fever in-the-evening.
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