sumugpo
sumugpô with stress marks
to suppress
From root: sugpo
Conjugations
Past (Completed)
sumugpo
su-mug-PO
suppressed
Present (Incomplete)
sumusugpo
su-mu-sug-PO
is suppressing
Future (Contemplated)
susugpo
su-sug-PO
will suppress
Usage Note
Sumugpo is the -um- actor-focus form of sugpo, used in formal and journalistic Tagalog to describe an authority figure or institution containing or suppressing something harmful. The actor — government, police, military — is the grammatical focus; the register is elevated and the word is rarely used in casual conversation.
Examples
" Dapat sumugpo ng krimen ang pulis. "
Natural Translation
The police should suppress crime.
Literal Translation
Should suppress of crime the police.
" Tungkulin natin ang sumugpo sa krimen sa komunidad. "
Natural Translation
It is our duty to suppress crime in the community.
Literal Translation
Duty our the to-suppress to crime in community.
" Naglunsad ang pamahalaan ng bagong programa upang sumugpo sa ipinagbabawal na droga bago pa kumalat sa mga paaralan. "
Natural Translation
The government launched a new program to suppress illegal drugs before they could spread further into the schools.
Literal Translation
Launched the government of new program in-order to-suppress at forbidden-linker drug before yet spread at plural school.
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