Archive for 'Grammar'
ㄹ Ending Verbs Continued Posted by Ginny on Sep 20, 2009
Hopefully you’ve had some time to think about the ㄹ ending verbs in detail (published on September 14th 2009). I’m going to go even further and show you how to conjugate these verbs in the deferential polite form. In the first post on ㄹ ending verbs, the verb 놀다 was conjugated as 놀아요 in the…
ㄹ ending verbs Posted by Ginny on Sep 14, 2009
The verbs that we encountered so far were regular ending verbs like 가다 (to go), 운전하다 (to drive). These verbs were simple in the sense that all you had to do was drop the 다 and add 요 in the standard polite form. For example, 가다 turns to 가요 and 운전하다 turns to 운전해요. The…
Answers to the Review Posted by Ginny on Sep 11, 2009
Hope you’ve had some time to look at the review questions. The answers are in parentheses. 1. What are the two subject marking particles? (이/가) 1a. Of the two subject marking particles, which one do you use after consonants? (이) 2. How would a verb like 가다 be conjugated in the deferential polite? (갑니다) 2a…
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…
Directional Particles Continued Posted by Ginny on Aug 16, 2009
Today I’ll teach you how to say ‘from ___ to ____’. All you have to do is learn the particles that mean ‘from’ and ‘to’ in Korean, and insert whatever location or place in the blanks. As an example, let’s pick two locations: Seoul and Jejudo. Let’s first learn how to say, ‘from Seoul’. In…