Let's Learn Korean!: Lesson 9

Another lesson is here. I can't believe that we are on lesson 9 already. Are you guys having fun learning? I hope you all are.

In this lesson, I will teach some grammar. A lot of you asked me some grammar questions and here is my answer.

Grammar

• To form simple questions, you change the 다(da) in the end of each statement to 까(kka).

• Korean NOUNS have NO articles such as (a, an, the) and NO plural forms whether the noun is singular or plural is judges from the context or by a number of modifying the noun.

• ADJECTIVES are usually placed in FRONT of nouns, as in English.

               

             자 (cha)  means Car

             좋은 자 (chaw-un-cha) meanㄴ A nice car.

• Korean VERB forms DO NOT vary between singular and plural, but change depending on who you are talking to and their status.

              VERBS/LEVELS OF POLITENESS

• Korean has various levels of politeness depending on who you are talking to, for example, when having a drink with a friend, you use a very different style to that. You would use when addressing a meeting or talking to somebody for th first time. The level of politeness is shown principally by the verb ending. Although, English has formal and informal style os speech, it does not have the same all-inclusinve Korean system of verb endings indicating degrees of politeness

               For example,

                          가(ka) means Go =} informal

                          감니다(kam-ni-da) means I go, he/she go, we go, they go [depending on the context. No need to specify who.] =} formal

                                   therefore, you add ㅁ+니+다 to make it formal

안 (an) means no/not is added in front of the verb to indicate negation.

      WORD ORDER

• In Korean the main verb always comes at the end if the sentence. So the sentence literelly reads as "to town am going."

• The order of words in a Korean sentence is different from English. The basic rule is SUBJECT-OBJECT-VERB. Where as in English it is usually SUBJECT-VERB-OBJECT. Subordinate clauses, or additional information come last in the sentence.

     For example,

                  [English way] "My wife wore a new dress when she came home."

                  [Korean way] "My wife home came when (and) she wore a new dress."

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