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To answer a question; to respond, reply; to answer
back to an elder. (This is disrespectful to do.)
Sabaten mo kay tang tete-ma na mga gatakoa.
Please answer her questions if you know it.
Ang mola indi dapat somabat ong mga ginikanan na.
A child should not answer
back to his parents.
mamagsabatan, mamagsarabatan
To argue (literally, to answer back-and-forth).
Namagsabatan tang mga taw ang gangabaleng don ong kalsada, may
ge-ley namagsontokan.
The drunk men were arguing there at the corner and there was
almost a fist fight.