{"id":150,"date":"2009-10-16T08:30:14","date_gmt":"2009-10-16T12:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/korean\/?p=150"},"modified":"2009-10-16T08:30:14","modified_gmt":"2009-10-16T12:30:14","slug":"korean-demonstratives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/korean\/korean-demonstratives\/","title":{"rendered":"Korean Demonstratives"},"content":{"rendered":"

In English demonstratives would be words like ‘this’, ‘that’, or ‘over there’. In Korean, the demonstrative prefix for ‘this’ is \uc774<\/strong>, that = \uadf8<\/strong>, that over there = \uc800<\/strong>. To be more specific, \uc774\uac83<\/strong>\u00a0is used when the object is close to the speaker. Therefore a sentence like \uc774\uac83\uc740 \uc81c \ucc45\uc774\uc5d0\uc694<\/strong> would mean that the \ucc45<\/strong> is near the speaker. (\uc774\uac83<\/strong> = this [object]. \uc740<\/strong> = topic marking particle. \uc81c<\/strong> = ‘my’ polite form. \ucc45<\/strong> = book. \uc774\uc5d0\uc694<\/strong> = copula meaning ‘is’ in the standard polite form.) In English this sentence would mean, ‘This is my book’. \uadf8\uac83<\/strong> would mean that the book is far away from the speaker and close to the listener.<\/p>\n

Therefore, if you replace \uc774\uac83<\/strong> with \uadf8\uac83<\/strong> and keep everything in the sentence above, you get, \uadf8\uac83\uc740 \uc81c \ucc45\uc774\uc5d0\uc694<\/strong>. The sentence would now mean, ‘That is my book’. Now change \uadf8\uac83<\/strong> with \uc800\uac83<\/strong>. The sentence would now be \uc800\uac83\uc740 \uc81c \ucc45\uc774\uc5d0\uc694<\/strong>. This time the sentence would mean, ‘That book over there is my book.’ \uc800\uac83<\/strong> is used for objects that are far away from both the speaker and the listener. Someone once asked me, what demonstrative would you use if the book is of equal distance between the speaker and the listener? I guess in this case you’ll have to use your subjective judgement as to whether to use ‘this’ or ‘that’.<\/p>\n

When you use the topic marking particle \uc740 <\/strong>with any demonstrative, Korean people tend to contract these forms. So ‘this, that, over there’ will be \uc774\uac74<\/strong>, \uadf8\uac74<\/strong>, \uc800\uac74<\/strong> respectively. Using the sentence above, \uc774\uac83\uc740 \uc81c \ucc45\uc774\uc5d0\uc694<\/strong> will be \uc774\uac74 \uc81c \ucc45\uc774\uc5d0\uc694<\/strong>. You can use the contracted forms for both \uadf8\uac83<\/strong> and \uc800\uac83<\/strong> as well. There is also a contraction when you use the subject marking particle \uc774<\/strong> with these demonstratives. The non contracted forms would be \uc774\uac83\uc774<\/strong>, \uadf8\uac83\uc774<\/strong>, \uc800\uac83\uc774<\/strong>. The contracted forms would be \uc774\uac8c<\/strong>, \uadf8\uac8c<\/strong>, \uc800\uac8c<\/strong>. For the sake of saving time and ease of pronunciation, the contracted forms are preferred over the non contracted forms.<\/p>\n

Notice that in English the sentence ‘this is my book’ would mean the same whether the sentence was \uc774\uac83\uc774<\/strong> \uc81c \ucc45\uc774\uc5d0\uc694<\/strong> or \uc774\uac8c \uc81c \ucc45\uc774\uc5d0\uc694<\/strong>. The same goes for \uc774\uac83\uc740 \uc81c \ucc45\uc774\uc5d0\uc694<\/strong> and \uc774\uac74 \uc81c \ucc45\uc774\uc5d0\uc694<\/strong>. This is where Korean proves to have subtler nuances in a simple sentence like ‘this is my book’. Also, the demonstrative prefixes \uc774<\/strong>, \uadf8<\/strong> and \uc800<\/strong> can be used to refer to people as well. \uc774\ubd84<\/strong>, \uadf8\ubd84<\/strong> and \uc800\ubd84<\/strong> respectively mean this person, that person and that person over there. So you could say, \uc774\ubd84 \uc54c\uc544\uc694<\/strong>? Or, ”do you know this person?” (\uc774\ubd84<\/strong> = this person. \uc54c\uc544\uc694<\/strong> = verb to ‘know’ in the standard polite form.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In English demonstratives would be words like ‘this’, ‘that’, or ‘over there’. In Korean, the demonstrative prefix for ‘this’ is \uc774, that = \uadf8, that over there = \uc800. To be more specific, \uc774\uac83\u00a0is used when the object is close to the speaker. Therefore a sentence like \uc774\uac83\uc740 \uc81c \ucc45\uc774\uc5d0\uc694 would mean that the \ucc45…<\/p>\n

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