From root: tapang
Conjugations
Past (Completed)
tinapangan
ti-na-pa-NGAN
made stronger
Present (Incomplete)
tinatapangan
ti-na-ta-pa-NGAN
making stronger
Future (Contemplated)
tatapangan
ta-ta-pa-NGAN
will make stronger
Usage Note
Tapangan is used when instructing someone to increase the intensity of a flavor, such as making coffee stronger, or when urging someone to show more courage and boldness. It is a versatile term that applies to both the potency of a substance and a person's resolve.
Examples
" Tapangan mo ang kape ko. "
Natural Translation
Make my coffee stronger.
Literal Translation
Make-stronger you the coffee my.
" Kailangan mong tapangan ang sabaw. "
Natural Translation
You need to make the soup stronger.
Literal Translation
Need you make-stronger the soup.
" Tinapangan niya ang kanyang loob bago humarap sa mga taong matagal na niyang kinakatakutan. "
Natural Translation
She steeled her resolve before facing the people she had long been afraid of.
Literal Translation
Made-stronger she the her inner-self before face to plural person long already her feared.
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