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안녕, 에밀리 here with my next chapter of Emily's Hangul School 101. In this chapter, I will be teaching you how Korean sentences are formed.
WARNING: THIS CHAPTER ON WILL BE MORE COMPLICATED WITH THE GRAMMAR RULES BEING TAUGHT!
Sentence Structure: Introduction
Besides learning how to understand Korean sentences structure and how to build sentences step by step in this lesson, you will also notice how different Korean language is compared to your mother tongue.
Without further ado, let's dive into the lesson!
조사: What is it?
Compared to how English sentences are built, Korean sentences structure and its word position doesn't matter. Why? That's because Korean Grammar uses something special called markers or particles to compose a sentence.
In technical terms, markers and particles are created just for you guys to understand. Its Hangul term should be 조가 (helping word).
Word Position
Unlike English, how words are positioned isn't that important on Korean Grammar to indicate what the subject or object is.
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(Please don't mind my messy handwriting. I tried my best to write neatly for you guys to understand.)
They all mean 'I eat popcorn', even though it doesn't seem natural.
Particles
In Korean Grammar, we use a so-called marker or particles to tell which word is a subject or an object. Let's take a look at the sentence below.
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The words 는 and 을 are terms that can't be translated in other languages unless you speak a European language. 는 and 을 are something unique to Korean language; it's used to point out the subject or object. That's how Koreans can tell me what the subject or object is wherever they are positioned.
Let's take a look at some examples below:
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Can I really ignore word positions?
The answer to the question above is NO! Of course native Koreans often ignore them. Korean grammar puts them in order in such a natural way.
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However, I must repeat once again: the order is often ignored. Koreans can switch the order in a casual conversation.
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You must be asking why and how smoothly the order has changed. This is because Korean grammar doesn't use an impersonal pronoun such as "it". This system just skips the constituent of sentence when they have to use "it" and just put the object later to emphasize it.
Sentence with no object
Korean sentences without an object is the same as English (subject + verb).
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How to use
저는청소해하고있어요. I'm cleaning.
준씨는매일노래해요. Jun sings everyday.
비가그쳤어요. Rain stopped.
어제저는피자먹었어요. I had pizza yesterday.
우리열심히공부해요! Let's study hard!
끝 of today's lesson.
The next lesson will be titled "Longer Sentence Structure: Introduction to Modifiers, Indirect Objects, Dropping the Subject, and Direct Objects 101."
I hope this lesson didn't confuse you guys too much.
