I have scratched my head for many days wondering why some nouns become verbs when adding Ma- prefix while others become adjectives:
ganda (noun: beauty) -> maganda (beautiful)
tulog (noun: beauty) -> matulog (to sleep)
Now I have a feeling I'm onto something here, but I'm not sure.
After alot of googling, I found this article describing Adjectives and MA-verbs as being the same category specifically in Tagalog, called "Statives"
www.academia.edu/529 8479/Adjectives_Thin k_again_Statives_in_ TagalogWhat they describe statives to be, is that they describe the state of the noun, rather than the noun itself.
ex.
ganda (noun: beauty) -> maganda (STATE-beauty -> beautiful)
tulog (noun: sleep) -> matulog (STATE-sleep -> sleeping / to sleep)
Both the MA-verbs and adjectives seem to follow the excact same conjugation rules, except for one thing I discovered:
I have learned the conjugation for MA-verbs:
natulog ako -> I was sleeping
natutulog ako -> I am sleeping
matutulog ako -> I will be sleeping
If MA-verbs and Adjectives were the same category, then what hinders me from doing this:
naganda ako -> I was beautiful
nagaganda ako -> I am beautiful (right now)
magaganda ako -> I will be beautiful
Yet, it obviously is not correct to say "magaganda ako" if I want to say "I will be beautiful". That instead becomes "Magiging maganda ako"
Is their explanation and description of "statives" pure rubbish or are they into something and there is something I don't get?