Tagatuos means what?

• A. An accountant or one who calculates.
• B. Happiness or joy.
• C. Sound of a bell or signal.
• D. National law governing the Philippines.

Answer: (A)

Tagatuos follows a common Filipino pattern where the prefix tag- forms an agent noun meaning “a person who uses or does” the action of the root word. Here, the root conveys calculating or tallying, so tagatuos literally means the person who calculates. That aligns with calling someone an accountant or someone who does calculations.

The other ideas don’t fit because they would come from different roots: happiness or joy would be built from words like tuwa or ligaya, not from a calculation root; the sound of a bell or signal would use a root related to sound (tunog or kampana), not a calculation root; and national law is described with terms like batas or saligang batas, not an agent noun for calculating.