This tutorial is good for beginners and intermediate in Tagalog. Today, the students will be able to learn how to say someone’s profession through the use of prefix mang or mam or man. 

When the prefix mang, mam, or man are applied to a root word it results in a noun word. Depending on the root word, the new word may mean any of the following:

• A job or profession


• A habitual activity or vice

Tagalog Vocabulary Building

lutò: verb (cook)

tagalutò: noun (a person assigned to cook)

awit: noun (sing)

taga-awit: noun (a person assigned to sing)

mang-aawit: noun (singer)

lakbáy: verb (travel)

manglalakbáy -> manlalakbáy: noun (traveller)

gawâ: verb (do, make, labor)

manggagawà: noun (laborer)

Ano ang trabaho mo? (what the job you)

Isa akóng manggagawà. (a I laborer)

Isa akòng mang-aawit. (a I singer)

Manggagawà ako. (Laborer I)

gamót: noun (heal, cure, medicine)

manggagamot: noun (doctor)

Manggagamot siyá. (Doctor he/she)

batás: noun (law)

mangbabatas -> mambabatas: noun (law-maker)

babae: noun (woman, girl)

mangbababae -> mambababae: adjective/noun (womanizer)

Hindî akó mambababae (not I womanizer)

Mambababae ka ba? (womanizer you ba)

sigarilyo: noun (cigarrete)

mangsisigarilyo -> maninigarilyo (smoker)

Isa ka bang maninigarilyo? (A you ba smoker)

taga-ingat-yaman: noun (treasurer)