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Bumili ako ng blusa sa Liberty Mall
Bumili ka ng blusa sa Liberty Mall.

III. Using na for relative pronouns
You may have noticed that when speaking in English, Filipinos tend to make
mistakes in using relative pronouns such as who, what, which, where, and when.
This is because the Filipino/Tagalog equivalent of these relative pronouns is
only “na.”
Study the following sentences:

TANONG : Ano ang coat na bibilhin mo?
What coat will you buy? (literally, What marker coat that will buy you?)

SAGOT : Gawa sa faux fur ang coat na bibilhin ko.
The coat that I will buy is made of faux fur. (literally, Made of faux fur
marker coat that will buy I.)

TANONG : Sino ang babaeng bumili ng asul na palda?
Who is the woman who bought the blue skirt? (literally, Who marker
bought marker blue linker skirt?)

SAGOT : Si Binibining San Miguel ang babae na bumili ng asul na palda.
Miss San Miguel is the woman who bought a blue skirt. ( Marker Miss
San Miguel marker woman who bought marker blue linker skirt.)

Note that in the second question, the words babae and na are contracted,
resulting in “babaeng.”
You will have more practice later in forming complex sentences using “na.”

IV. Magkapareho and Magkaiba (same and different)
The root words of same and different are kapareho and kaiba. To make

sentences, we use the prefix mag-. Thus, we can say:

Magkapareho ang kulay ng mga bag namin.

Our bags have the same color. (literally, Same marker color marker bag
our.)
Magkapareho ang kulay ng bag ko at ng bag niya.

The color of my bag and her bag are the same. (literally, Same marker
color marker bag my and marker bag her.)

Magkapareho ang kulay ng mga bag ni Sylvia at ni Maureen.
The color of Sylvia and Maureen’s bag is the same. (literally, Same marker
color marker bags of Sylvia and of Maureen.)