sinagan
sinágan with stress marks
to shine light on it
From root: sinag
Conjugations
Past (Completed)
sinagan
si-NA-gan
shone upon
Present (Incomplete)
sinisinagan
si-ni-si-NA-gan
is being shone upon
Future (Contemplated)
sisinagan
si-si-NA-gan
will be shone upon
Usage Note
Sinagan is the object-focus locative -an form of sinag, used when the surface being illuminated by a ray of light is the grammatical focus. It is predominantly used in poetic and descriptive prose — moonlight falling on water, sunbeams breaking through clouds — rather than in ordinary conversational speech.
Examples
" Sinagan mo ng ilaw ang daan. "
Natural Translation
Shine a light on the path.
Literal Translation
Shine-light-on you of light the path.
" Kailangan mong sinagan ng plaslayt ang madilim na sulok ng bodega. "
Natural Translation
You need to shine light on the dark corner of the warehouse with a flashlight.
Literal Translation
Need you to-shine-light-on with flashlight the dark corner of warehouse.
" Habang naglalakad sila sa madilim na yungib, sinagan ng bata ng plaslayt ang basang sahig. "
Natural Translation
While they were walking through the dark cave, the child shone a flashlight on the wet floor.
Literal Translation
While walking they in dark linker cave, shine-light-on by child of flashlight the wet floor.
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