A lot of people know that my Uncle Joe likes lamb chops, especially in Greek cuisine. He speaks Tagalog, Ilocano, Pangasinan, and English. He is interested in French. Now in 2021, he is over 80 years old.
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Pangasinan
/pɐŋ.ɡɐ.sɪˈnan/
Synonyms for "pangasinan" (2 found)
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Translations
12 translations across 11 languages.
Cebuano
1 entries- Pangasinan name (province of the Philippines)
Chinese
1 entries- 邦阿西楠 name (province of the Philippines)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 邦阿西南 name (province of the Philippines)
- 邦阿西楠 name (province of the Philippines)
Ilocano
1 entries- Pangasinan name (province of the Philippines)
Japanese
1 entries- パンガシナン name (province of the Philippines)
Korean
1 entries- 팡가시난 name (province of the Philippines)
Malay
1 entries- Pangasinan name (province of the Philippines)
Pangasinan
1 entries- Pangasinan name (province of the Philippines)
Russian
1 entries- Пангасина́н name (province of the Philippines)
Spanish
1 entries- Pangasinán name (province of the Philippines)
Tagalog
1 entries- Pangasinan name (province of the Philippines)
Sample sentences
2 total sentences available.
After school hours, my brother and I often stopped by my Auntie Mila's house at Kamias Street in Quezon City to play with my cousins. It was an ancient mansion that was once a foreign embassy. Workers supposedly moved it brick by brick from an outlying province into the city. Auntie Mila was a person attuned to Philippine native culture. She liked all these handmade wooden and shell native crafts. On the other hand, her husband, my Uncle Joe, was very pro-American and inculcated their kids in the English language early on because they intended on later emigrating to the USA. I thought to myself that it was unusual that these cousins spoke English at home as if they were actors on television. But they did speak Tagalog with us. Uncle Joe was from a province, Pangasinan, where Tagalog was a second language; there, people spoke the language Pangasinan amongst themselves. He spoke also the regional language, Ilocano.
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