Dalhin mo ang kumot sa kwarto ni Lola.

It is a command or imperative sentence. It is telling someone to do something: bring the blanket to Grandma’s room.

In Filipino, commands often begin with the verb, so starting with dalhin is very natural.

Dalhin is used because the sentence is focused on the thing being brought, which is ang kumot.

A very helpful comparison is:

• Dalhin mo ang kumot... = the focus is the blanket
• Magdala ka ng kumot... = the focus is more on you doing the bringing

So both can relate to bringing a blanket, but the grammar changes depending on what the sentence highlights.

The -hin is a verb ending that helps form an object-focus verb. It tells you that the action is being directed toward a specific thing, here ang kumot.

The root is dala, meaning bring / carry.
When this verb form is made, it becomes dalhin, not dalahin.

So:

• dala = bring / carry
• dalhin = bring it / bring the specific thing

Mo means you here, but not in the basic standalone form. It is the genitive form of you, and it is used because this sentence is in object focus.

In this pattern:

• dalhin = the focused action on the object
• mo = the person who will do the action

It usually comes after the first word, which is very common for short pronouns in Filipino.

Compare:

• Dalhin mo ang kumot.
• Magdala ka ng kumot.

In the second sentence, ka is used instead of mo because the verb pattern is different.

Ang marks kumot as the noun that the sentence is centered on grammatically. It is often called the focus or nominative marker.

So in this sentence, ang kumot is the specific thing being brought.

It can sometimes overlap with English the, but it is not exactly the same as the English article. Its main job here is grammatical marking, not just definiteness.

Because the verb dalhin is an object-focus form, the thing being acted on is marked with ang.

If you changed the sentence to an actor-focus form, then you would usually use ng for the thing:

• Dalhin mo ang kumot.
• Magdala ka ng kumot.

So ang vs. ng here depends on the verb structure, not just on meaning.

This is a prepositional-type phrase showing the destination.

• sa = to / in / at, depending on context
• kwarto = room
• ni Lola = Grandma’s

So sa kwarto ni Lola means to Grandma’s room.

In this sentence, sa is understood as showing where the blanket should be taken.

Ni is used before personal names and name-like terms. Since Lola here is being used like a specific person’s name or title, ni is correct.

A useful contrast:

• ni = for names and people treated as names
• ng = for common nouns

So:

• kwarto ni Lola = Grandma’s room
• kwarto ng lola = the grandmother’s room / a grandmother’s room

The second one sounds more general, while ni Lola sounds like a specific Grandma known to the speaker.

It is capitalized because it is being used like a name or title for a specific person, similar to Grandma in English.

Compare:

• si Lola / ni Lola = Grandma, a specific person
• ang lola / ng lola = grandmother, more general

So the capital letter shows that it is being used almost like a proper name.

Yes, Filipino word order is fairly flexible, although some orders are more natural than others.

The original sentence is a very natural neutral order:

• Dalhin mo ang kumot sa kwarto ni Lola.

You can also move parts around for emphasis, for example:

• Sa kwarto ni Lola mo dalhin ang kumot.
  This emphasizes where to bring it.

Even when the order changes, the markers like ang, mo, sa, and ni help show each word’s role.

It is a direct but normal command. It is not rude by itself, but it is straightforward.

If you want to make it softer or more polite, you could say things like:

• Pakidalhan mo ng kumot si Lola.
• Paki-dala ang kumot sa kwarto ni Lola.
• Pwede bang dalhin mo ang kumot sa kwarto ni Lola?

So the original sounds like a plain instruction, which is very common in everyday speech.

A simple approximation is:

• dalhin ≈ dahl-HIN
• kwarto ≈ KWAR-to
• Lola ≈ LO-la

In dalhin, the h is pronounced, so it is closer to dal-hin than to one smooth syllable.
And kwarto begins with a kw sound, like qua in some English words.

It is a very common Filipino word, but it comes from Spanish cuarto. You may also see the spelling kuwarto, which reflects Filipino spelling conventions more clearly.

Both are widely recognized, but kwarto is very common in everyday writing and speech.