Ustu
It was Everything You Do Is Right Day yesterday! How do you say “correct, right” in your language?
USTU • (oos-TOO)
(1) correct, right, proper; (2) enough, exact
Common Colloquial Variant: istu
Tagálog (Filipino): támà (most common), wastó (more formal/literary, less common), hustó (“sufficiently, adequately”)
Common Kapampángan Expression:
Ustú na! / ‘Tú na! [Kap]
Támà na! [Tag]
Enough already! / That’s enough! / Stop it! [Eng]
Etymology
From Spanish justo (“right, just; exactly”)
Example Sentence
Gáwan mu ing ustu. [Kap]
Gawín mo ang támà. [Tag]
Do the right thing. [Eng]
Verb Conjugation
iyustu, yuyustu, inustu – to correct something, make something right (Object Focus)
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