Pumunta

Pumunta is a Tagalog verb meaning “to go” or “to go to a place.” It describes movement from the speaker’s current location to another location and is commonly used to talk about going somewhere, visiting someone, or traveling to a destination. The word functions as the base form from which other related forms are built to indicate different aspects and voices.

In Filipino, verb forms express aspect rather than strict tense. Pumunta can convey a past action in context, often with a time reference, while other forms express different temporal or aspectual nuances. A common future form is pupunta, used to indicate that someone will go or plans to go. Another derived form is pinuntahan, which can mean that someone went to a place or visited someone, depending on sentence structure and voice.

Pronunciation and usage vary with pronouns and sentence structure. Examples:

- Pumunta ako sa paaralan kahapon. I went to school yesterday.

- Pupunta kami sa museo bukas. We will go to the museum tomorrow.

- Pinuntahan nila si Lola kahapon. They visited Lola yesterday.

Pumunta is widely understood across Filipino-speaking communities and appears in everyday conversation, media, and literature. It is commonly paired with time expressions and place nouns to specify who is going, where they are going, and when the action occurs.