Meaning of apat

apat

Cebuano

(so-and-so) would be, would have been better. Apat magtuun ka kay sa magdúlà, You’d do better to study than to play. Apat pag ímung gipalit ug baktin, You would have done better to buy a pig with the money. — kay the situation was fine except something happened to make it bad. Apat kay wà tà tu maghilak, ímung gihilabtan, He wasn’t crying. What did you have to mess with him for? Apat kay dì ku muuban, gipugus. Naapil ku sa kasábà, I didn’t want to go with you, but you forced me. Now I got in trouble along with you; n. action of saying ‘apat’. Walay apat nga mag-una, The apat (‘it would have been better’) always comes afterwards.