Questions & Answers about Iyon ang gusto ko.
A helpful rough breakdown is:
iyon = that
ang = a marker that points to the focused noun phrase here
gusto = want / like / preference
ko = my / I
So very literally, it is something like:
That [is] my want / the thing I want.
A more natural English rendering is That’s what I want or That’s the one I like, depending on context.
Iyon means that, usually referring to something farther away from both speaker and listener.
The common three-way distinction is:
ito = this, near the speaker
iyan = that, near the listener
iyon = that over there, farther from both
In real conversation, these distance distinctions are not always strict, but they are the basic pattern.
Not exactly. Ang is not simply the Filipino word for the.
In Filipino, ang is a marker used for the noun phrase that is being highlighted, identified, or treated as the main item in the sentence. In , the phrase means something like or .