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Earlier, you studied honorifics such as po and ho, which are used for more
formal or polite speech. Both mean the same, although the former is considered
to be more formal than the latter.
Many students are confused about the proper placement of po and ho in the
sentence. A common mistake is to say:
Kumanan kayo po sa Masaya street.
This is wrong. When using a pronoun, in this case the second-person plural
pronoun kayo, used to indicate formality, the honorific po should be inserted after
the verb and before the pronoun.

Thus, the correct sentence is:
Kumanan po kayo sa Masaya street.

III. Words in relation to streets, avenues, boulevards, highways
There are no indigenous words for streets. The Tagalog/Filipino word used is
kalye, which comes from the Spanish word calle. However, in conversational
Filipino, when asked where they live, most Filipinos will tend to use “street”

instead of kalye. Thus, one can say, “Nakatira ako sa Masaya street. ” (I live
on Masaya street.)
Similarly, words such as highways, avenues, boulevards, have no equivalent.

IV. The words mula and galing
In the dialogue, the manager asks Maria, “Nasaan ho kayo? (Where are you?)”
so that he/she can best give Maria directions. There are two other ways of saying
the same thing:
EXAMPLES : Saan ho kayo magmumula?

Where will you be coming from?
Saan ho kayo manggagaling?

Where will you be coming from?

The root words are mula and galing (accent on the first syllable). Both mean
from. The difference lies in the usage. Mula is also used with the word hanggang to
indicate time. For example, “Nag-aaral ako mula alas-otso hanggang alas-dose.”
(I study from eight to twelve o’clock).
Also, galing is more frequently used in situations where two people meet each
other and one asks where the other has just come from. For example:
EXAMPLES : Saan ka galing?

Where did you come from?

We can conjugate these words and use them as verbs: