From root: toyo
Conjugations
Past (Completed)
nagtoyo
nag-to-YO
used soy sauce
Present (Incomplete)
nagtotoyo
nag-to-to-YO
using soy sauce
Future (Contemplated)
magtotoyo
mag-to-to-YO
will use soy sauce
Usage Note
Magtoyo is used when adding soy sauce to a dish as a condiment or during a meal. While it refers to the sauce, the term is also widely used in colloquial Filipino to describe someone acting moody or temperamental.
Examples
" Magtoyo ka sa kanin. "
Natural Translation
Put soy sauce on the rice.
Literal Translation
Use-soy-sauce you on rice.
" Nag-aalinlangan silang magtoyo sa ulam. "
Natural Translation
They are hesitant to use soy sauce in the dish.
Literal Translation
Hesitant they to-use-soy-sauce in dish.
" Bago pa man matikman ang luto, nagtoyo na agad siya kaya naman naging sobrang alat ng pagkain. "
Natural Translation
Even before tasting the food, he immediately added soy sauce, which is why the dish became too salty.
Literal Translation
Before even to-taste the dish, used-soy-sauce already immediately he so therefore became very salty of food.
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