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.
| Aspect | Form | Example | Gloss |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neutral | pag- | pagdalus | to use something to clean
to be used to clean |
| Continuous Progressive | pagCVC- | pagdaldalus | uses something to clean
is/are using something to clean is/are used to clean |
| Perfective | pinag- | pinagdalus | used something to clean
has/have used something to clean was/were used to clean |
| Continuous Complete | pinagCVC- | pinagdaldalus | was/were using something to clean
used to use something for cleaning would use something for cleaning |
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Famous quotes containing the word instrumental:
“All history attests that man has subjected woman to his will, used her as a means to promote his selfish gratification, to minister to his sensual pleasures, to be instrumental in promoting his comfort; but never has he desired to elevate her to that rank she was created to fill. He has done all he could to debase and enslave her mind; and now he looks triumphantly on the ruin he has wrought, and say, the being he has thus deeply injured is his inferior.”
—Sarah M. Grimke (1792–1873)