Kumanta ang mang-aawit sa mikropono.

Filipino very often puts the verb first. So a common basic pattern is:

Verb + ang-marked noun + other details

That is exactly what you see here:

Kumanta + ang mang-aawit + sa mikropono

This is normal and natural in Filipino. English usually prefers subject + verb, but Filipino often does not.

Kumanta is the verb form from the root kanta, meaning sing or song depending on context.

Here, -um- is inserted into the root to make the verb:

• root: kanta
• verb: kumanta

In this sentence, kumanta expresses a completed action, so it means sang or did sing.

A learner may also compare it with other forms:

• kumakanta = is singing / sings
• kakanta = will sing
• kumanta = sang

Ang marks the noun phrase that is the sentence’s main focus/topic, and in this sentence it marks the doer of the action.

So:

• ang mang-aawit = the singer

In this sentence, the verb is in actor focus, so the noun marked by ang is the one performing the action.

That is why ang mang-aawit is the one who sang.

Mang-aawit means singer.

It comes from the root awit, meaning song or singing, with a word-forming pattern that creates a person associated with the action or thing.

So very roughly, it is something like:

• awit = song
• mang-aawit = one who sings / singer

You do not need to analyze it every time you see it, but it helps to know that Filipino often builds nouns this way.

The hyphen helps show the word formation clearly, especially because the second part begins with a vowel.

So:

• mang-
  • aawit → mang-aawit

In modern writing, Filipino uses hyphens in certain formed words like this to make them easier to read and parse.

For a learner, the most important thing is simply to recognize mang-aawit as one whole word meaning singer.

By itself, mang-aawit is normally understood as singular.

If you want to make it clearly plural, you usually add mga:

• ang mang-aawit = the singer
• ang mga mang-aawit = the singers

So this sentence is talking about one singer, unless context says otherwise.

Sa is a very common marker that can cover several English ideas, such as in, on, at, to, or sometimes with, depending on context.

Here, sa mikropono most naturally means something like:

• at the microphone
• into the microphone
• sometimes using the microphone

The exact English wording depends on the situation, but the Filipino phrase itself is normal.

So do not expect sa to match just one English preposition every time.

You know because of the combination of:

• the verb form kumanta
• the marker ang

Kumanta is an actor-focus verb form. In actor-focus sentences, the noun marked by ang is the performer of the action.

So in:

Kumanta ang mang-aawit

the ang phrase is the one who sang.

This is a key pattern in Filipino grammar.

Yes. That sentence is also grammatical.

Compare:

• Kumanta ang mang-aawit sa mikropono.
• Ang mang-aawit ay kumanta sa mikropono.

The first one is the more typical verb-first pattern. The second one puts more attention on ang mang-aawit as the topic.

The ay construction is correct, but in everyday speech it can sound a bit more formal, careful, or written, depending on context.

No, it is a borrowed word, ultimately from microphone.

Filipino has many borrowed words, especially for modern objects. The spelling is adapted to Filipino spelling conventions:

• English: microphone
• Filipino: mikropono

This is very common and natural in Filipino vocabulary.

Yes. It is complete and natural.

It has:

• a verb: kumanta
• an ang-marked doer: ang mang-aawit
• an added phrase giving more detail: sa mikropono

So even without more context, it works as a normal sentence in Filipino.