iyán1
Variant yan
adj
English That.
Example sentence
Tagbanwa
Iyán nga balay.
English
That house.
Example sentence
Tagbanwa Ida'tun mu asat paypay ngayán.
English Put it on that bamboo mat.
Cultural Note At a short distance from the speaker or close to the hearer.
pron
Variant iyan'en
English That one.
Example sentence
Tagbanwa
Iyán i magayen ku.
English
That one is the one I like.
Example sentence
Tagbanwa Magayen ku yan.
English I like that one.
Example sentence
Tagbanwa
Iyán nga buwát, ega yan magayen.
English
That action, that|rś not good.
Example sentence
Tagbanwa Iyán, yan i imu. Iyan'en i aken.
English That, thatś yours. That one is mine
Grammar When the suffix-en is added, the suffix is preceeded by glottal. iyan is used when the speaker stresses the word, elsewhere yan is used.
See alsoini
See alsoiti
See alsoitu