Filipino|What Is Tira-Tira?

happyfree (55)in #filipino • 7 years ago

Tira-tira is one of many Filipino or Tagalog words that are repeated to convey the meaning or to pluralize the word. What is tira-tira?

Tira-tira means leftover foods or leftover meals. Notice that the nouns mentioned are pluralized. While tira is used to refer to just one kind of food, using tira-tira means there are more than one food as a leftover.

Examples
Ang daming tira-tira sa fridge.
There's a lot of leftovers in the fridge.

Ayaw niya kumain ng tira-tira.
She/He doesn't want to eat leftovers.

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Posted July 22, 2018 - 11:14 pm

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7 years ago in #filipino by happyfree (55)

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pinay (55) 7 years ago (edited)

Mahilig ako kumain ng mga tira-tira ayoko ng nagsasayang ng pagkain or whatever 😅

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happyfree (55) 7 years ago

True naman. Haha. 😄

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