Yakan - sabut

1

mag- -in- (recip.)

ta-

To understand s.t.

Tasabutku pina'innen.

I understand what he says.

Magsinabut kami.

We understand each other.

alab (ta)hāti 2

2

nabut

To be understanding or accepting (of a person).

Just be understanding (accepting) because those children don’t know how to treat companions.

Bang ga'i kew nabut, na, mura ka'am magsasa'.

If you are not accepting, you will easily quarrel.

3

makasabut

To know how to do s.t., to know things (in general), be knowledgeable.

Gey iye makasabut magbella bu hadje ne.

She doesn’t know how to cook and what’s more she is big already.

Bang ga'i kite ta'u, tilew kite si a'a makasabut.

If we cannot do it, we ask a person who knows how to.

Da'a ne kew magiskul, iyu' du kew gey makasabut.

Don’t go to school any longer; you don’t know anything (anyway).

Magiskul kew duk kew makasabut.

Go to school so that you will know (things).

ta'u

4

magsabut

To get along well together (of people); to go together or match (of state of things).

We get along well living together in the house.

These go together, there is no water and there is nothing to be watered.

Iyu' kulintangan iyan ga'i magsabut.

That set of gongs does not match (in sound).

Ga'i siye magsabut bang siye magtagunggu'.

They don’t get along (don’t play at the same speed) when they play the gong ensemble.

(mag)tewwa'