Ilagay mo muna ang basura sa basurahan bago tayo kumain.

Put the trash in the trash can first before we eat.

Breakdown of Ilagay mo muna ang basura sa basurahan bago tayo kumain.

• mo: you
• kumain: to eat
• tayo: we
• sa: in

Questions & Answers about Ilagay mo muna ang basura sa basurahan bago tayo kumain.

Can you break the sentence down word by word?

Yes:

Ilagay — put/place; here it is a command form
mo — you (singular), the doer of the action
muna — first / for now / before anything else
ang basura — the trash, the thing being acted on
sa basurahan — in/into the trash can
bago — before
tayo — we including the listener
kumain — eat

So the structure is basically:

[Put] [you] [first] [the trash] [in the trash can] [before] [we eat].

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Why is the verb ilagay and not maglagay?