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I am wearing a baro’t saya because it is Philippine Independence
Day today. (literally, Wearing I marker baro’t saya because
Philippine Independence Day today.)

Nakasuot si Lourdes ng kulay rosas na bestida samantalang
nakasuot naman ng kulay pulang bestida si Teresa.
Lourdes is wearing a pink dress while Teresa is wearing a red dress.
(Literally, Lourdes marker wearing marker color pink linker dress

while wearing naman marker color red dress marker Teresa.)

III. Conjugating the root word “suot”
You have learned the use of the prefix naka- with the verb suot. As explained
earlier, naka- is a special prefix that expresses a person or an object’s state,
condition or appearance. In this chapter we used naka- for the word nakasuot
(wearing).

Let us now study how we can use other suffixes to express different aspects
of the verb suot. The first set are the verbs used in sentences where the focus is
on the subject while in the second set, the focus is on the object.
Here are the formulas:

Mag affix:
• Completed— nag + root word;
• Incompleted—first two syllables of completed form + root word;
• Contemplated—change n to m of the incompleted form

In affix:
• Completed—insert in before the first vowel of the root word and then add i
before the word;
• Incompleted—first syllables of the completed form + root word;
• Contemplated— i + first syllable of root word + root word

Affix Completed Incompleted Contemplated
nag nagsuot nagsusuot magsusuot
in isinuot isinusuot isusuot

Here are some examples of sentences:
1. Nagsuot ako ng asul na bestida sa birthday party.

I wore a blue dress at the birthday party. (literally, wore I marker blue dress at
birthday party.)