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Kamusta kayo, ako si Mayumi. Hi everybody! I’m Mayumi.
Welcome to FilipinoPod101.com’s “Filipino sa 3 minuto”. The fastest, easiest, and most fun way to learn Filipino.
In the last lesson, we learned how to say prices in Filipino. Keep practicing that!
In this lesson, we're going to learn about how to talk about your schedule - for example, if a friend asks you "What are you doing this weekend?"
Let’s start!
To ask a friend or someone you already know, say:
Ano ang gagawin mo ngayong week-end?
[slowly] Ano ang gagawin mo ngayong week-end?
Let’s break it down.
Ano is "what".
Ang is equivalent to “the’ in English but it is sometimes used in Filipino when it wouldn’t be used in English. .
Gagawin means “will do”
Mo is ”you”.
And ngayong week-end is "this weekend"
The Filipino translation for “weekend” is katapusan ng linggo but this Filipino phrase isn’t used very often, “week-end” is much more commonly used.
If you want to ask the same question in a formal way, add po after the word ano and change the second-person pronoun mo into the plural niyo.
Ano po ang gagawin niyo ngayong week-end?
[slowly] Ano po ang gagawin niyo ngayong week-end?
What if you’re not asking about this weekend?
Asking about a different time period is as easy as replacing ngayong week-end with another word.
Tomorrow is bukas. So you can also say Ano ang gagawin mo bukas? “What are you doing tomorrow?” Or, you could also put in a weekday, like Lunes, "Monday" or Linggo, which is "Sunday".
Ano ang gagawin mo sa Lunes?
What are you doing on Monday?
Ano ang gagawin mo sa Linggo?
What are you doing on Sunday?
So now, if someone asks *you* Ano ang gagawin mo bukas?, or "What are you doing tomorrow?", how can you answer?
Here's an example: Pupunta ako sa opisina. "I'm going to the office." Pupunta means "willl go", ako means “I,” sa means “to” but can also mean “on,” “in,” or “at,” and opisina means "the office". Feel free to replace "office" with any other location!
Now it’s time for Mayumi’s Tips.
“Ano ang…” is a very commonly used question phrase in Filipino which leads this to be always contracted in conversations.
“Anong gagawin mo bukas?”
“Ano pong gagawin niyo bukas?”
So, what will you do tomorrow? Now you could answer this in Filipino! In the next lesson, we’ll be learning how to tell people your nationality and more with the help of the “to be” verb, “ay.”
I'll be waiting for you in the next Filipino sa 3 minuto lesson. Hanggang sa muli!

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