gumawa-gawa

Tagalog

Etymology

From gawa-gawa +‎ -um-.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ɡumaˌwaʔ ɡaˈwaʔ/ [ɡʊ.mɐˌwaʔ ɡɐˈwaʔ]
  • IPA^(key): (with glottal stop elision) /ɡumaˌwa(ʔ) ɡaˈwaʔ/ [ɡʊ.mɐˌwaː ɡɐˈwaʔ]
• Rhymes: -aʔ
• Syllabification: gu‧ma‧wa-ga‧wa

Verb

gumawâ-gawâ (complete gumawa-gawa, progressive gumagawa-gawa, contemplative gagawa-gawa, Baybayin spelling ᜄᜓᜋᜏᜄᜏ)

1. to make up; to fabricate (stories)

   Mukhang gumagawa-gawa lang ng tsismis ang mga dyaryo e.

   It looks like the newspaper was just making the gossip up.

2. to do as a test; to do idly or without a definite aim

   Gumagawa-gawa lang ako ng disenyo na baka puwedeng imprentahin sa damit.

   I'm just making a design that could maybe get printed onto a shirt.

3. complete aspect of gumawa-gawa

Conjugation

Verb conjugation for gumawa-gawa

Affix		Root word			Trigger
-um- ᜓᜋ᜔		gawa-gawa ᜄᜏᜄᜏ			actor
Aspect						Imperative
Infinitive	Complete	Progressive	Contemplative	Recently Complete
gumawa-gawa ᜄᜓᜋᜏᜄᜏ	gumawa-gawa ᜄᜓᜋᜏᜄᜏ gungmawa-gawa1 ᜄᜓᜅ᜔ᜋᜏᜄᜏ	gumagawa-gawa ᜄᜓᜋᜄᜏᜄᜏ gungmagawa-gawa1 ᜄᜓᜅ᜔ᜋᜄᜏᜄᜏ nagawa-gawa2 ᜈ ᜄᜏᜄᜏ	gagawa-gawa ᜄᜄᜏᜄᜏ magawa-gawa2 ᜋ ᜄᜏᜄᜏ	formal	kagagawa-gawa ᜃᜄᜄᜏᜄᜏ	gumawa-gawa ᜄᜓᜋᜏᜄᜏ gawa-gawa2 ᜄᜏᜄᜏ
				informal	kakagawa-gawa ᜃᜃᜄᜏᜄᜏ
1Now archaic in Modern Tagalog. 2Dialectal use only.