mag-, pa-, -an
to starve; to be very hungry.
This term can be used jokingly.
His children are starving now, [but] still he is not now present.
His chilren are already starving, but he still isn't here.
eh, ni-
to be caused to starve; to be starved; to be weak from hunger; to be famished.
The people were caused by him to be weak from hunger yet, before he fed [them].
He made the people weak from hunger before he fed them.