May bunga sa lamesa.

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Breakdown of May bunga sa lamesa.

• lamesa: table
• may: to have
• bunga: a fruit

Questions & Answers about May bunga sa lamesa.

What does may mean here?

In this sentence, may means there is or there are. It introduces the existence of something.

So:

• May bunga = There is fruit / There are fruits

In other contexts, may can also express possession, like May kotse siya = He/She has a car. But in May bunga sa lamesa, it is being used existentially: something is present somewhere.

Why is there no separate word for is?

Because may already does the job of expressing existence in this kind of sentence.

English says:

• There is fruit on the table

Filipino says:

• May bunga sa lamesa

So instead of using a separate verb like is, Filipino uses may to mean that something exists or is present in a place.

What does bunga mean exactly?