sumalok
sumalók with stress marks
to scoop water
From root: salok
Conjugations
Past (Completed)
sumalok
su-ma-LOK
scooped
Present (Incomplete)
sumasalok
su-ma-sa-LOK
is scooping
Future (Contemplated)
sasalok
sa-sa-LOK
will scoop
Usage Note
Sumalok is the actor-focus -um- form of salok, with the person fetching or scooping water as the sentence topic. Tied to traditional rural water-gathering using a tabo or ladle from a well or river, it remains culturally resonant and appears in literature and provincial speech even as urban households rely on piped water.
Examples
" Sumalok siya ng tubig sa balon. "
Natural Translation
He scooped water from the well.
Literal Translation
Scooped he of water from well.
" Lumabas sila upang sumalok ng tubig sa balon. "
Natural Translation
They went out to scoop water from the well.
Literal Translation
Went-out they so-that to scoop of water from well.
" Tuwing umaga noong bata pa ako, sumasalok kami ng tubig sa malayong batis bago pa sumikat ang araw. "
Natural Translation
Every morning when I was still a child, we would scoop water from the distant spring before the sun even rose.
Literal Translation
Every morning when child still I, scoop we of water from far spring before yet to-rise the sun.
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