From root: mantika
Conjugations
Past (Completed)
nagmantika
nag-man-ti-KA
exuded oil
Present (Incomplete)
nagmamantika
nag-ma-man-ti-KA
exuding oil
Future (Contemplated)
magmamantika
mag-ma-man-ti-KA
will exude oil
Usage Note
Magmantika is primarily used in culinary contexts to describe meat or food exuding its natural fat or oil during the cooking process. It is also used colloquially to describe a surface or skin that has become excessively greasy or oily.
Examples
" Nagsimulang magmantika ang prito. "
Natural Translation
The fried food started to exude oil.
Literal Translation
Started to-exude-oil the fried.
" Bakit magmantika ang balat ng manok? "
Natural Translation
Why does the chicken skin exude oil?
Literal Translation
Why to-exude-oil the skin of chicken?
" Kapag matagal mong iprito ang baboy, magmamantika ito nang husto at iyon ang gagawing sarsa. "
Natural Translation
When you fry the pork for a long time, it will exude a lot of oil, and that becomes the sauce.
Literal Translation
When long you fry the pork, will-exude-oil it really and that the will-make sauce.
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