Usage Note
Salad is a direct English loanword used in Filipino cuisine contexts, covering both Western-style salads and the beloved Filipino fruit salad — a popular dessert of canned fruits, all-purpose cream, and condensed milk served at Christmas and fiestas.
Examples
" Masarap ang salad. "
Natural Translation
The salad is delicious.
Literal Translation
Delicious the salad.
" Kumain kami ng salad. "
Natural Translation
We ate salad.
Literal Translation
Ate we of salad.
" Tuwing Pasko, gumagawa ang lola ko ng fruit salad na may all-purpose cream at condensed milk. "
Natural Translation
Every Christmas, my grandmother makes fruit salad with all-purpose cream and condensed milk.
Literal Translation
Every Christmas, makes the grandmother my of fruit salad that has all-purpose cream and condensed milk.
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