kasano

Asking How

Level 1

Kasano ti panagaramid …? asks about making or doing. The separately witnessed kasano ti kinakaro …? frame asks about severity.

How It Works

For method or manner, begin with kasano ti and an established activity expression. Panagaramid names making or doing, and panagtaray names the act or manner of running. The performer can be the activity's possessor: panagaramidyo identifies your making, while panagtaray ni Tomas identifies Tomas's running. Yo can address several people or respectfully one person.

Compare Agtaray ni Tomas., “Tomas will run,” with the manner question below. One reports an event; the other presents an activity as noun-like subject matter. Other verb families have their own activity expressions, so panag- cannot mechanically replace every verb prefix.

A modern clinical source independently witnesses kasano ti kinakaro for condition severity. This establishes a use beyond activity manner, but does not license an invented severity paradigm for every noun. The examples below remain within the independently established activity patterns. Kasano stays unchanged with different performers.

Examples (3)

  1. Kasano ti panagaramidyo ti pinakbet?

    How do you make pinakbet?

    The possessed activity noun identifies the addressees' method, or respectfully one addressee's method.

  2. Kasano ti panagtaray ni Tomas?

    How does Tomas run?

    The named possessor identifies the performer whose manner is questioned.

  3. Kasano ti panagtrabahomi idiay balay?

    How do we work at the house?

    Mi identifies the performers as the speaker's group, excluding the addressee; the location supplies context.