apay

Use the witnessed frame apay a before a consonant-initial verbal or descriptive predicate. The linker a connects the question to what follows; it is not an English indefinite article. KWF's modern guidance selects a before a consonant sound and nga before a vowel sound. Older descriptions also witness broader uses of nga; those attested forms are not thereby grammatical errors.

Keep the questioned clause's event form and participant marking. Nagawid presents completed going home, and ni Teresa identifies the actor. A property predicate such as nangina, “expensive,” also fits this frame. Apay has no person or number agreement.

Compare the crying question with Nagsangit ni Elena gapu iti bisin., “Elena cried because of hunger.” The question requests a cause; the statement supplies a noun-phrase cause. A causal ta clause can instead provide a reason expressed as a clause.