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Sasaksakin ni Larry si Berto, pero napigilan ko siya.

Tagalog example sentence for Napigilan


Example sentence for the Tagalog word mapigilan, meaning: [verb] to be able to stop something; to be able to hold something back.

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Sásaksakín ni Larry si Berto, pero napigilan ko siyá.
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Larry would have stabbed Berto, but I stopped him.

Sentence Literal Translation:

Sasaksakin ni Larry si Berto, pero napigilan ko siya.
Sásaksakín ni Larry si Berto , pero napigilan ko siyá .
will stab by a word placed before a proper noun but stopped I him / her / it
Larry would have stabbed Berto, but I stopped him.

There are 15 other example sentences using the word napigilan or its variants.
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