Category — Mga Ibong Mandaragit

Here are some words found in Kabanata II of Amado V. Hernandez’ Mga Ibong Mandaragit:

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The three guerillas finish their dinner, and Tata Matyas encourages them to sleep.

For some reason, Mando doesn’t want to sleep yet, so he and Tata Matyas engage in conversation:

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Here are some Tagalog words from Kabanata I of Mga Ibong Mandaragit, and their equivalent in English. They’re arranged in order of appearance in the chapter. You can press Ctrl+F to quickly search for the word you want (although the list is quite short, for now).

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It seems that the novel “Mga Ibong Mandaragit” is out of stock in National Book Store Shangri-La Plaza, Katipunan, and Trinoma branches. Talk about popular! (Found out about this from Exie.)

There are still around 14 copies in the NBS Robinsons Galleria branch.

Mga Ibong Mandaragit opens with the Philippines in the second half of 1944, while I open a nearby Tagalog dictionary because the words Amado V. Hernandez used are beautifully new to me.

Now if only the printed version were clearer. Take, for example, the second sentence on page 1:

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