Questions & Answers about Nasa tabi ng bintana ang lamesa sa kusina.
What is the basic breakdown of Nasa tabi ng bintana ang lamesa sa kusina?
A natural way to divide it is:
- Nasa tabi ng bintana = is beside the window
- ang lamesa sa kusina = the table in the kitchen / the kitchen table, depending on context
So the sentence structure is basically:
- predicate/location first
- topic noun phrase after
A very literal English reshaping would be:
- Beside the window is the table in the kitchen.
That sounds unusual in English, but it is a normal pattern in Filipino.
What does nasa mean here, and is it one word?
Here, nasa expresses location: is at / is in / is on / is by, depending on context.
In this sentence, nasa tabi ng bintana means is beside the window.
Yes, in modern standard writing, nasa is normally written as one word in this kind of sentence.
Where is the word is? Why is there no separate verb like in English?