Mga pakete ito.

Mga is the usual plural marker for nouns in Filipino. It tells you that pakete refers to more than one package.

So:

• pakete = package / packages
• mga pakete = packages

Unlike English, Filipino usually marks plural by adding a separate word like mga, not by changing the noun itself.

Because Filipino nouns usually do not add an ending like English -s or -es.

So the noun stays the same:

• pakete = package
• mga pakete = packages

The plural idea is shown by mga, not by changing pakete itself.

This sentence follows a very common Filipino pattern for simple identification sentences:

predicate first + subject second

Here:

• mga pakete = the predicate
• ito = the subject, meaning this / these

So Mga pakete ito is a normal Filipino way to say that the things being pointed at are packages.

English usually starts with the subject, but Filipino very often puts the predicate first in this kind of sentence.

Yes, from an English point of view, it feels like are is missing. But in Filipino, this is normal.

In present-time sentences like this, Filipino often has no written or spoken copula equivalent to English is or are.

So:

• English: These are packages.
• Filipino: Mga pakete ito.

Nothing is actually missing in Filipino grammar.

Because ito is a short pronoun-like demonstrative, and in this compact sentence pattern you normally do not put ang before it.

So Mga pakete ito is a natural short form.

If you use a fuller version, you often do get ang:

• Mga pakete ang mga ito
• Ang mga ito ay mga pakete

So the absence of ang here is due to the short predicate-first structure.

In this sentence, English translates it as these because the sentence is about multiple items, shown by mga pakete.

Ito is the near-speaker demonstrative, meaning something like this or these, depending on context. English forces a singular/plural choice more clearly than Filipino does in this short pattern.

So in Mga pakete ito, the natural English meaning is These are packages.

If you want the plural reference to be more explicit in Filipino, a fuller form is:

• Ang mga ito ay mga pakete
• Mga pakete ang mga ito

Yes. That is also correct.

Compare the two:

• Mga pakete ito = shorter, more compact, very natural
• Ang mga ito ay mga pakete = fuller, more explicit, often a bit more formal or textbook-like

Another correct version is:

• Mga pakete ang mga ito

All of these can express the same basic idea, but Mga pakete ito is the concise predicate-first version.

The direct singular version is:

• Pakete ito = This is a package

If you want to make the idea of a more explicit, you can also use isang:

• Isa itong pakete
• Ito ay isang pakete

So the plural sentence uses mga, while the singular sentence does not.

A simple learner-friendly pronunciation is:

• mga ≈ muh-NGA
• pakete ≈ pa-KE-te
• ito ≈ i-TO

A few useful notes:

• ng in mga is a single sound, like the ng in sing
• do not pronounce mga letter by letter as em-gee-ay
• the stress is usually on KE in pakete and on the last syllable in ito

So the whole sentence is roughly:

muh-NGA pa-KE-te i-TO

It is a nonverbal identification sentence.

That means it identifies what something is, but it does not use a verb like English is or are.

Its structure is:

• predicate noun phrase: mga pakete
• subject demonstrative: ito

So grammatically, it is the same type of pattern as sentences like:

• Guro siya = He/She is a teacher
• Bahay ito = This is a house
• Mga libro iyon = Those are books

This is a very common Filipino sentence pattern, so it is worth getting comfortable with it early.