Learning Korean (한국어 배우기) [COMPLETE]

Unit 1.12 - Korean Particles

Remember. If you can't read the ones without the pronounciations.. you shouldn't be here!!

Nouns:
점원 (jeom-weon/won) ~ store assistant
소리 (so-lee) ~ noise/sound
목소리 ~ voice
의미 (eui-mee) ~ meaning
상황 (saang-hwang) ~ situation
문장 (moon-jang) sentence
기름 (gii-reum) oil/grease/gasoline
그들 ~ them
생활 (seng-hwall) ~ lifestyle/life

Verbs:
속삭이다 (sok-sak) ~ to whisper
복습하다 ~ u shud noe dis!! I said it like a thousand time ><
바꾸다 = to change
유학 (yoo-hak) ~ to study abroad
넘어지다 (neom-eo-jee-da) ~ to fall
독서하다 (dok-seo) ~ to read (books)
출발하다 (chool-bal) ~ to depart
마시다 (ma-shi-da) ~ to drink
내리다 (ne-lee-da) ~ to get off, to go down
나오다 (na-o-da) ~ to come out
나가다 (na-ga-da) ~ to go out
쓰다 (seu-da) ~ to cover one's head
모르다 (mo-reu-da) ~ to not know
신청하다 (shin-cheong) ~ to apply
사다 ~ to buy
팔다 ~ to sell

Adjectives:
얇다 (yalb/yarb) ~ thin
적당하다 (jeok-dang) ~ moderate
어리다 (eo-lee-da) ~ young
기쁘다 ~ glad

Adverbs and Other Words:
꽤 (ggwe) ~ fairly/quite
때 (dde) ~ time, when
그때 ~ at that time
쪽 (jjok) ~ side/direction
열심히 (yeol-shim-hee) ‘hard/well’ (study hard)
완전히 (wan-jeon-hee) ~ perfectly, completely
몇 ~ some __, how many (used w/ counter)
층 (cheung) ~ floor

Introduction

We learned a lot of particles so far, including: 는/은, 이/가, 를/을, 의 and 도.

There are So much more and so get ready because we will cover it in this lesson: ~들, ~만, ~에서, ~부터, ~까지 and ~(으)로!

Then let’s get started!

Eliminating the Subject

One thing that I have told you before was that Korean people often omit the topic/subject of the sentence – especially when the topic/subject is ‘I.’
Korean people love making their sentences as short as possible. In most cases, when the subject/topic can be inferred by the situation, Korean people drop it entirely from the sentence. For example, instead of saying:

저는 아침식사를 안 먹었어요
= I didn’t eat breakfast

They would say:
아침식사를 안 먹었어요
= didn’t eat breakfast

They could shorten it even more by saying:
아침 안 먹었어요
= didn't eat morning (literal meaning)

All three are perfect sentences and can be used. This will be done from time to time throughout our lessons.

Korean Particle ~들 and using 몇 with a counter

You probably thought at least once about 'how roake korean plural?' Well.. Korean people rarely distinguish between singular and plural. For example, if I say:

나는 사과를 샀어

This could mean “I bought an apple” OR “I bought apples.” this could be confusing, but it's how it's done in Korean. In most cases, the context can make it clear if you bought ‘an apple’ or if you bought ‘apples.’ If you really want to make it clear, you could say:

나는 사과 한 개를 샀어
= I bought one apple

When dealing with the ambiguity of singular/plural sentences in Korean, you could also use the word 몇 which can replace a number in these examples: 두 개/두 명/두 번. When 몇 replaces a number in these cases (몇 번/몇 명/몇 개), it has the meaning of “some ____.” For example, instead of saying: “나는 사과 한 개를 샀어”, you could say:

나는 사과 몇 개를 샀어
= I bought SOME apples

More examples

나는 몇 개의 펜을 샀어
= I bought some pens

나는 몇 명의 사람을 만났어
= I met some people

나는 학교에 몇번 갔어
= I went to school a few/some times (not sometimes)

(remember, 번 acts as an adverb – so it doesn’t need a particle to be attached to it).

Anyways, back to what I was trying to say earlier. ~들 can be attached to a noun to make that noun plural. However, adding ~들 to a noun that is not referring to a person is usually weird:

저는 사과들을 샀어요

Instead, ~들 is usually only attached to the alive things:

의사들은 돈이 많아
= doctors have a lot of money

저 강아지들은 귀엽다
= those dogs are cure

Continue ~ Unit 1.12 (2)

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