Korean Lesson for U!

Word Order (SOV)

*Reminder: im not going to write the romnization of the Korean Character. This way, you can practice your reading of Kor. Characters

I hope u all know how to read hangul :) enjoy
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English is a subject-verb-object (SVO) language (e.g., Andrew-studiesKorean). However, Korean is a subject-object-verb (SOV) language (e.g., 앤드류가 한국어를 공부해요 “Andrew-Korean-studies”). In Korean, verbs and adjectives appear at the end of the sentence. All other elements such as nouns (e.g., subject and/or object), adverbs, and numbers, appear before verbs and/or adjectives. In addition, modifiers (e.g., adverbs, demonstratives, and relative clauses) appear before the modified words. For instance, let us consider the following English sentence: “Peter studies history at the library in the afternoon.” We know that “Peter” is the subject since it comes before the verb “studies,” and “history” is the object as it appears after the verb. Notice that extra elements such as “at the library” and “in the afternoon” are placed after the object. In addition, English prepositions always appear before nouns, as in “at the library.” However, the word order of Korean would be 피터가도서관에서역사를공부해요“Peter library-at history studies.” Instead of English prepositions, Korean has particles that always come after the noun. For instance, we know 피터 is the subject, since it is marked by the subject particle 가. 도서관 is the location since it is marked by the locative particle 에서. In addition, 역사 is the object, since it is marked by the object particle 를.

Consider another example:

앤드류가 집에서 점심을 먹어요

"Andrew eats lunch at home"

The subject particle 가 marks 앤드류 as the subject of the sentence. The location particle particle 에서 marks  marks 집 as the location. In addition, the object particle 을 marks 점십 as the object of the sentence. Because of particles, Korean sentences do not always follow the SOV pattern. Korean nouns (as subjects or objects) can be freely arranged in a sentence. For instance, the following six sentences mean “Andrew eats lunch at home.”

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**i'll continue the lesson next week!! i'll update some.vocabularies too..