 Compare the phrase "ang batang lalaki" ("the/a young man/boy") and the sentence ""ang bata lalaki"" ("the child is male" or "the child is a boy").After words that end in a monophthong, diphthong or "-n", "nga" is reduced to the suffix "-ng" /-ŋ/.Unlike Tagalog, "nga" is not used with numbers; "ka" below is used instead.