Mga Propesyon at Tungkulin sa Filipino

I started making a list of Filipino nouns with the common gender and I ended up making a long list of occupations and common roles and responsibilities. The Filipino nouns in this list have the common gender. They may be used to refer to either a male/man or female/woman. Below is the link to a six-page PDF file entitled "Mga Propesyon at Tungkulin." It has a list of professions categorized according to following fields: Community helpers (Examples: basurero, dentista, guwardiya, karpintero) Common roles and responsibilities (Examples: bisita, kaibigan, kamag-aral, pasahero) Family and relatives (Examples: anak, asawa, kapatid, manugang) Business (Examples: akawntant, bangkero, ingat-yaman, negosyante) Politics and law (Examples: abogado, alkalde, kongresista, senador) Military and security (Examples: heneral, hepe, koronel, sarhento) Education (Examples: dekano, guro, prinsipal, propesor, tutor) Health care (Examples: beterinaryo, manggagamot, maninistis, obstetra) Science (Examples: antropologo, heograpo, kimiko, pisiko) Journalism and publishing (Examples: kolumnista, makata, mananaliksik, patnugot) Religion (Examples:…

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Aralin at Worksheets sa Kasarian ng Pangngalan

Aralin sa Kasarian ng Pangngalan The pdf lesson above describes the four kinds of Filipino gender (kasarian) nouns, which are masculine nouns (pangngalang panlalaki), feminine nouns (pangngalang pambabae), common nouns (pangngalang di-tiyak ang kasarian), and neuter nouns (pangngalang walang kasarian).  Because there are so many neuter nouns, only a list of Filipino masculine, feminine, and common nouns are provided in the lesson. The lesson also provides a table with many examples of Filipino masculine nouns and their corresponding feminine nouns (for example, ama at ina, lolo at lola, kuya at ate,etc.).  This table shows that many such nouns are borrowed from the Spanish language. You may be wondering why nouns like doktor and doktora were not included in the list of masculine-feminine noun pairs. It is because people still use the word doktor for either a male or female doctor. Only doktora (female doctor) is gender-specific. The five worksheets and…

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