Magsumite ng orihinal at photocopy.

Magsumite is being used as a command: Submit.

It comes from the verb sumite / magsumite, meaning to submit. In Filipino, the same verb form can often serve as:

• a future form: will submit
• an imperative form: submit!

So in a notice or instruction like Magsumite ng orihinal at photocopy, it is naturally understood as a command.

In Filipino, commands often leave out the subject, just like English can say Submit the form instead of You submit the form.

So the sentence does not need an explicit ikaw / kayo. The you is understood from context.

Here, ng marks what is being submitted.

In this sentence, ng orihinal at photocopy is the thing affected by the action. A simple way to think of it is:

• magsumite = submit
• ng orihinal at photocopy = an original and a photocopy / the original and a photocopy

So ng is not really translating as one single English word. It is a marker showing the object of the verb in this structure.

Because this sentence uses an actor-focus verb: magsumite.

With mag- verbs, the thing being acted on is commonly marked by ng:

• Magsumite ng dokumento. = Submit a document.

If you switch to an object-focus verb, then the item submitted is usually marked by ang:

• Isumite ang dokumento. = Submit the document.

So both patterns are possible, but they are built differently:

• Magsumite ng...
• Isumite ang...

It is understandable and common enough in official or practical contexts, but many learners will also see:

• Isumite ang orihinal at photocopy.
• Magpasa ng orihinal at photocopy.

These can sound a bit more natural depending on the context.

Very roughly:

• magsumite = submit
• isumite = submit (with stronger focus on the thing submitted)
• magpasa = submit / hand in

In notices and forms, all of these are common.

Filipino does not use articles the same way English does.

So a phrase like ng orihinal at photocopy can correspond to several English possibilities depending on context:

• the original and a photocopy
• an original and a photocopy
• original and photocopy

Usually, in real-life instructions, the meaning is understood from the situation. For example, if you are applying for something, it probably means the original document and a photocopy of it.

Yes. At means and.

So:

• orihinal at photocopy = original and photocopy

It links the two items together.

Filipino uses many borrowed words, especially in everyday and administrative language. Photocopy is very commonly used.

You may also hear:

• kopya = copy
• xerox = xerox / photocopy, in casual speech

So photocopy in a Filipino sentence is completely normal.

It means both.

Because of at (and), the instruction is to submit:

• the original
• and a photocopy

If it meant a choice between the two, you would expect wording closer to o (or) instead of at.

A very literal gloss would be something like:

• Submit original and photocopy

But natural English usually needs articles, so we normally say:

• Submit the original and a photocopy.

Filipino often sounds more compact because articles are not required in the same way they are in English. So when translating into English, you often have to add the, a, or an based on context.

Like many formal or administrative words in Filipino, orihinal is a borrowing, ultimately from original.

This is very common in Filipino vocabulary. So a sentence like this may contain:

• a native grammatical structure
• plus borrowed vocabulary

That is one reason Filipino can sometimes look familiar to English speakers even though the grammar works differently.