Malinaw ang pasiya ng mang-aawit.

This is very normal in Filipino. The sentence is in a predicate-first order.

• Malinaw = clear
• ang pasiya ng mang-aawit = the singer’s decision

So the structure is basically:

Predicate + topic

That is why Malinaw ang pasiya ng mang-aawit literally looks like Clear the singer’s decision.

In natural English, we usually rearrange it as The singer’s decision is clear.

There is no separate word for is here. In many Filipino sentences, especially simple descriptive sentences, the copula is simply understood.

So:

• Malinaw ang pasiya ng mang-aawit = The singer’s decision is clear

You do not need a word equivalent to is in this kind of sentence.

Ang marks the topic of the sentence. In many basic sentences, it often corresponds to what English treats as the subject.

Here, ang marks:

ang pasiya ng mang-aawit = the singer’s decision

So ang tells you that this whole phrase is the main thing being talked about.

Here, ng shows a genitive/possessive relationship. It is functioning like of or English apostrophe-’s.

So:

• pasiya ng mang-aawit = decision of the singer
• more natural English: the singer’s decision

In other contexts, ng can do other jobs too, but in this sentence it marks the possessor.

The hyphen appears because the word is formed with the prefix mang- plus a root related to awit (song), with reduplication involved in the form.

So:

• awit = song
• mang-aawit = singer

The hyphen helps show the word formation clearly. This kind of spelling is common in Filipino for certain derived forms.

That is part of how the word is built.

mang-aawit comes from awit and includes a pattern where part of the root is repeated. The result is the meaning one who sings / singer.

So even though it may look unusual to an English speaker, mang-aawit is a normal formed noun meaning singer.

Yes, they are closely related, and both are used. Pasiya is a recognized form meaning decision. You may also encounter pasya with the same basic meaning.

In this sentence, pasiya is simply the noun decision.

Yes. That is also correct.

Compare:

• Malinaw ang pasiya ng mang-aawit.
• Ang pasiya ng mang-aawit ay malinaw.

Both mean the same thing: The singer’s decision is clear.

The version with ay is often felt to be a bit more formal or more explicitly structured. The predicate-first version without ay is very common and natural.

The full noun phrase marked by ang is:

ang pasiya ng mang-aawit

Inside it:

• pasiya = the head noun, decision
• ng mang-aawit = the possessor, of the singer / the singer’s

So the whole phrase means the singer’s decision.

Not always. Malinaw can mean things like:

• clear
• plain
• easy to understand
• evident
• distinct

In this sentence, it most naturally means clear in the sense of definite or easy to understand.

No. That is a very common learner mistake.

Ng can have different functions depending on the sentence. Here it is possessive, so:

• pasiya ng mang-aawit = the singer’s decision

It does not mean decision by the singer in the agentive sense here, even though English might sometimes phrase possession and agency similarly.

A very literal breakdown would be:

• Malinaw = clear
• ang = topic marker
• pasiya = decision
• ng mang-aawit = of the singer

So, word-for-word-ish:

Clear is the decision of the singer

That is not natural English, but it helps show the Filipino structure.