Archive for September, 2009
Copula Endings Posted by Ginny on Sep 8, 2009
For today’s post we’re going to look at some copula endings that are bound to come up in your quest to learn Korean. The copula ending ~이에요 and ~예요 comes up a lot when you want to say, ‘it’s’ or ‘is’ in Korean. For example, the sentence, “It’s a present” would be 선물이에요. 선물 is the…
Review Posted by Ginny on Sep 5, 2009
I think it’ll be a good idea to do some review of the grammar we went touched upon within the last two months. Let’s see how many of these concepts you remember without looking these up. I’ll provide the answers in the next post. 1. What are the two subject marking particles? 1a. Of the…
Topic Marking Particles Posted by Ginny on Sep 2, 2009
The topic marking particle will either be ~은 or ~는, depending on whether the noun or pronoun ends in a consonant or vowel. 미니 is a name ending in a vowel. Therefore the topic marking particle that will be used is ~는. 정민 is a name ending in a consonant. The topic marking particle that…