Ilokano Verb - Focus - Instrumental Focus: Pag-

Instrumental Focus: Pag-

The basic sense of the instrumental focus is to use something for accomplishing the root's meaning; it is the tool of the root. That something is then cast in the absolutive case. For example, dalus, clean space, pagdalus, to use something to clean with. This prefix, pag-, behaves more like a verbal noun than a verb and sometimes translates as the implement of the root instead.