Appendix:Tagalog nouns

 Key concepts
 * common noun
 * proper noun
 * simple noun
 * compound noun
 * reduplication
 * gender
 * noun case
 * noun affixes

By class
Tagalog nouns are classified into two types, which are same as in English nouns:


 * Common nouns
 * Example:, , , ,
 * Proper nouns
 * Example:, , , ,

Tagalog words derived from proper nouns are also capitalized (e.g. -> ). Nationalities and languages are capitalized because of English language influence in spelling.

By morphology
Tagalog nouns are classified also by their morphology, which are:
 * Simple nouns - corresponds to word roots
 * Example:, , , ,
 * Affixed nouns - nouns formed by adding affixes to a root
 * Example:, , , ,
 * Compound nouns – nouns formed by combining two nouns (or a noun and another word or vice versa). Modifiers may or may not be joined by the linker  and its enclitic variants. Spelling varies: older compounds may be spelled as one word while newer ones are written with either a space or a hyphen between words. The Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino (KWF) prescribes hyphens to separate elements in newer compounds.
 * Example:, , , , , ,
 * Reduplicated nouns
 * Partially reduplicated nouns
 * Example:, , ,
 * Fully reduplicated nouns
 * Example:, ,

Gender
Tagalog has four genders: male, female, neuter, and no gender, but has no real grammatical gender.

Tagalog nouns have gender if they refer to people or animals. Other objects, like places, have no gender.
 * Has gender:, , , ,
 * No gender:, ,

Tagalog nouns with gender can be classified as masculine, feminine or neuter. A noun is masculine if it specifically refers to a male while it is feminine if it specifically refers to a female. Tagalog has nouns with natural gender because they have been given a specific gender. On the other hand, there are Tagalog nouns with neuter gender, especially if it is a common noun.


 * Masculine:, , , ,
 * Feminine:, , , ,
 * Neuter:, ,

Loanwords from Spanish can be changed from feminine to masculine and vice versa by changing the final a with o or the other way around. But as grammatical gender is not present in Tagalog, the article or verb conjugation to use is always the same.

Case
Noun case is Tagalog is indicated by markers, as summarized in this table:

Noun-forming affixes
In Tagalog, many nouns can be formed by adding affixes to a root word or a nouns. Examples are:


 * (becomes in words ending with a vowel with no glottal stop)
 * (becomes in words ending with a vowel with no glottal stop)
 * (becomes in words ending with a vowel with no glottal stop)
 * (becomes in words ending with a vowel with no glottal stop)
 * (becomes in words ending with a vowel with no glottal stop)
 * (becomes in words ending with a vowel with no glottal stop)
 * (becomes in words ending with a vowel with no glottal stop)