Questions tagged [grammar]
Questions about the rules that govern and structure the language, and the composition of clauses, phrases and sentences. Also pertains to the syntax and morphology of the Korean language.
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Construct object-phrases in korean
I was trying to construct a sentence like the following.
Would you show me where I can throw this away?
I am not a grammar expert but if I have to translate just
Would you show me this
I would ...
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Is there the korean version of 'As' for when cause or reasonings
I was browsing ths Google to see if theres this exact word for nuance and meaning 'As' for reasons or effects rather than comparisons, but I found none, example:
'As the sun slowly sets, Shin-Hye is ...
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Do I always have to use honorific nouns with superiors?
I know there are some nouns in Korean that have honorific forms. For example, the honorific form of 밥 is 진지, the honorific form of 집 is 댁...
So do I always have to use honorific nouns with superiors?
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Is 아버님 only used in"연인사이"?
I asked a young Korean person: When I talk to a child, I want to ask "What does your father do?". This question should ask "아버님은 무슨 일을 하셔냐?/하셔니?"?.
She said that i should ask "...
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I’m practicing “journal style” writing in Korean with a new book. Is this sentence correct?
다다음 주부터 가을방학 시작한다.
The examples in my book don’t use a particle next to school vacation. I also wasn’t sure if “다다음“ is week after next? Is there a different informal way to say “in two weeks”?
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Asking "Can you speak Korean?"
I was chatting to a Korean gentlemen this morning, with whom I was speaking for the first time.
Because I texted "안녕하세요" his first thought was I spoke Korean. So he asked me
엇 한국어 가능하세요
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Is 한국어를 해요correct?
I am asking this because I saw someone saying it is correct, but I don't think it is. As someone who speaks japanese I would never say 韓国語をする, but instead I'd say 韓国語ができる which is equivalent to 한국어를 할 ...
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Does 아/어야 have more than one meaning?
As a low intermediate student, I learned that 아/어야 is used to express something as a necessary condition, it can be thought as meaning only if and is commonly used (but not exclusively) in the ...
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When talking to 사장님 about 과장님, do we need to use 존댓말 with 과장님?
In a Korean book there is the following dialogue:
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남 :네, 총무과뚜안입니다. 아, 사장님. 안녕하십니까? 박 과장님이요? 박 과장님께서는 좀 전에 일 때문에 거래처에 가셨는데요. 네, 그럼 제가 지금
박 과장님께 전화해서 빨리 사장님께 전화하시라 고 말씀드리겠습니다....
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Finally as adverb and auxiliary verb (드디어 vs 어/아 버리다)
Today I came across the use of the auxiliary verb 버리다 to express (among the other things) finally. However as far as I know finally in korean is also the adverb 드디어.
So I wonder for example what is ...
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I am happy that I am finally going to Seoraksan
The following two sentences sound like can be translated in the same way:
저는 설악산에 가 버리다고 행복해요
저는 설악산에 가 버려서 행복해요
Which to me means
I am happy that I am finally going to Seoraksan.
I wonder however ...
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Thank you for the food
I had lunch yesterday in a restaurant and I wanted to say "thank you for the food" (after the meal while paying).
What came out of my mouth was
음식이라서 감사합이다
The owner seems to have and ...
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~단 말이지? Is this expressing a conclusion or what the speaker was actually trying to say?
I am aware that 단 말이야 is often used to confirm information that the speaker said. All of the practice examples have what the speaker said roughly verbatim.
나: 어제 10시간이나 잤어요.
가: 네? 어제 10시시간이나 잤단 말이에요?...
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How to use -에 있다/없다
When going through my book (fun fun korean 1) I noticed that the structure for using -에 있다 was different from -에 없다 .
Example: The book is on top of the desk = 책이 책상 위에 있어요.
The pencil case does not ...
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I am thinking about the sentence you wrote
A wonderful lady texted me a nice sentence yesterday.
생각해서 생각이 나온다.
Which seems to translate as "thoughts lead to more thought". As I've been thinking about this sentence since yesterday I ...
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Where is the following sentence wrong?
In a Korean book there is a sentence that goes like this:
선생님, 저와 함께 술을 드시러 가시지요
This book says that the above sentence is not entirely correct because it uses incorrect honorifics. Can you help me ...
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Quotations - Can 라고 and 다고 be followed by any verbs?
I am learning about quotations. And in many examples the construction I've seen those is explained as follows
Put the quoted utterance
Follow the quoted utterance by 다고 + 하다 or 라고 + 하다 (with few ...
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라떼 말이야 - meaning?
I encountered the phrase 라떼 말이야 la-tte mal-iy-a, which I might have figured as Latte is the word, but which Google and Bing translate as I mean latte (Google)/lattes (Bing). Papago momentarily shows I’...
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소방당국은 긴급 환자들을 헬기를 동원해 병원으로 옮겼습니다
This sentence is from an article here.
소방당국은 긴급 환자들을 헬기를 동원해 병원으로 옮겼습니다.
Can I rewrite it like this?
소방당국은 헬기를 동원해 긴급 환자들을 병원으로 옮겼습니다.
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Is this translation correct in simple present tense?
I want to say "I usually eat bread" in Korea, so I translate that sentence like this: "저는 자주 빵을 막는다". I wonder if the tense of my translated sentence is "present simple" ...
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Sentence with (으)면 하다 in past tense
I came across this sentence from a text message
금일 결과 리뷰 했으면 합니다
I found in my reference that the pattern (으)면+하다 means "would/wish" and conjugating 하다 in past tense provide a more ...
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How to express "I want something" in Korean
There's a pattern in korean, V고 싶다, which is used when expressing things like:
가족이 보고 싶어요 (I want to see my family)
딸기를 먹고 싶어요 (I want to eat strawberries)
침데에서 자고 싶어요 (I want to sleep in bed)
It ...
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Present participle colloquial usage
So in all of my grammar resources, they say that the present participle for a verb is formed by adding 는 after the verb.
E.g "the sleeping man" = "자는남자"
However, a native speaker (...
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하고 vs. 해서 vs. 하고 나서 vs. 한 채 - 비교
Could you describe nuances between these sentences and point out the one that sounds most natural?
화장을 하고 수영장에 가면 안 되죠.
화장을 하고 나서 수영장에 가면 안 되죠.
화장을 해서 수영장에 가면 안 되죠.
화장을 한 채 수영장에 가면 안 되죠.
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What is the meaning of '별로 차이가 없다'
What is the meaning of '별로 차이가 없다'?
이 한국말은 영어로 설명하면 무슨 뜻입니까? 알고 싶어요.
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Translation of "I wonder if you can buy the bread on your way home"
Related to this question where I was suggested to lookup the patterns V(으)ㄹ래요 and V(으)ㄹ게요.
In my understanding, and according to one of my grammar reference these are sentence final endings expressing ...
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Difference between the pattern ~아/어 보다 (auxiliary verb) and the post modifier ~(으)ㄴ 적/일
I was reading here and there about post modifiers and auxiliary verbs in korean. And recently a couple of them captured my attention namely ~아/어 보다 (auxiliary verb) and ~(으)ㄴ 적/일.
Specifically I ...
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Translation "I always start working after exercising"
I am trying to translate:
I always start working after exercising
Or equivalently
I always exercise before start working
Or (sligthly different)
I cannot work if I don't exercise
My attempt:
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Translating "Because today the weather was hot I went to the coffee shop in the afternoon"
Trying to translate the following.
Because today the weather was hot I went to a coffee shop in the afternoon
My attempt
오늘 날씨는 뜨겁어서 오후에 커피쑢에서 널었어요.
Is it correct?
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Translating "A: Can you buy some bread? B: I will buy it on my way home but I have to go to school now"
As exercise I am trying to translate the following:
A: Can you buy some bread?
B: I will buy it on my way home but I have to go to school now.
My attempt.
A: 빵를 사수 있어요?
B: 집으로 가는 길에 사지만 지금 학교에 가요
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Translating "Bonnie has a cat named Tia"
I have the following sentence I'd like to translate. I'll list all the steps I did so in the correction maybe I can spot more easily what I did wrong.
Bonnie has a cat named Tia
In my attempt I was ...
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What is the difference between a verb and a copula
I have a general grammar question.
I often see the term copula as it is like different from what a normal verb is.
According to one of my references Basic Korean: A Grammar and Workbook by Andrew ...
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Understanding 제일 좋아하는 유튜브 채널이 뭐예요?
I have the following sentence (taken from a youtube video)
제일 좋아하는 유튜브 채널이 뭐예요?
Which translates as
What is your favourite Youtube channel?
One thing that captured my attention in this sentence is ...
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Translation of "The woman is walking downstairs with her umbrella open"
Context:
I am in a coffee shop and it's rainy outside and I just saw a woman walking downstairs (outside) with her umbrella open.
As exercises I'd like to try to translate:
A woman is walking ...
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Translation of "Can you show me where something is?"
As exercise I was trying to translate the following sentence.
Can you show me where the watermelon is?
(The watermelon is completely random).
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What does 려나 하다 mean?
I am watching 삼진그룹 영어토익반 and I saw the following line with an ending that I had not seen before:
이제 일 좀 하려나 했더니 TL: I thought you'd finally be useful, and what?
There is 려나 보다 which could fit, but I ...
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how 물음 come from 묻다?
as far as I know,in korean,if you want to turn a verb into noun,you just add one amongst 기,음 and 이 to that verb.
for example,if you want to turn 듣다 into noun,you can just remove 다 and add 기 to it,like ...
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meaning of (noun?)조차
I was watching a youtube video earlier and I found two of these "조차" particles come up in the video:
모든 인간관계의 문제, 모든 범죄조차도
저는 그 통제권을 가지려는 욕망에서 온다고 생각
하거든요.
그리고 보통 이런 사람은 본인조차도 통제하지 못하고 있을 ...
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Distinguish Transitive/Intransitive verbs in dictionary
I am having a hard time finding this information in dictionaries.
I mainly use this one: https://krdict.korean.go.kr/eng/mainAction
Information that doesn't seem to appear when I look up verbs is ...
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Can I have one of these as well?
Imagine you're in a coffee shop, you can ask for a coffee (whichever you want as follows):
커피 한잔 주세요
Imagine now you want also something else you see at the counter the way I would translate it ...
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Syllable structure rules
Recently, I've started learning Korean, so please don't get mad if my question sounds stupid. My problem is that I don't know whether a consonant is a part of a three-letter syllable or a separate ...
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Translation for 'What shoulders exercise would you recommend?'
As context... I was exercising last night in a class and my instructor told me that I have tight shoulders and I should stretch more. So I asked her (in English, unfortunately) "What shoulder ...
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Terminology confusion: Basic vowels, complex vowels, etc
I've been taught that this is true about Korean:
10 basic vowels (기본모음): ㅏ, ㅑ, ㅓ, ㅕ, ㅗ, ㅛ, ㅜ, ㅠ, ㅡ, ㅣ
11 complex vowels (복합모음): ㅐ, ㅔ, ㅒ, ㅖ, ㅘ, ㅙ, ㅚ, ㅝ, ㅞ, ㅟ, ㅢ
14 basic consonants (기본자음) : ㄱ, ㄴ, ㄷ, ...
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Is this a good translation?
This is an excerpt from an English translation of the Shreecharitmanasa that I tried to translate. I simplified it slightly so I could practice.
I worship Ganesh(Kanesya) & Saraswati(Sarasupati), ...
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Differences between 지 and 가(까) as a Nonfactive Complementiser
This questions is not about the general differences between 지 and 가(까), since 가(까) obviously has a usage not possessed by 지, that is to mark the interrogative illocutionary force at the end of the ...
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what is the meaning of 으로 in this sentence?
아침 저녁으로 많은 사람들이 운동을 하거나 산책을 합니다
by what I have learned,으로 has 2 major meanings:
1)indicate the direction of travel
2)indicate the tool,material used
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what is the meaning of "시" in the below sentence?
12월 20일까지 3만원 이상 구매 시 무료배송
thank you.I don't know how 시 works
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Grammatical Nuisance: The particle "in order" to in Korean ? [기 위해; 러 and 려고]
What different nuisance is conveyed in the following forms:
공부하기 위해 학교에 가고 있다
공부하러 학교에 가고 있다
공부하려고 학교에 가고 있다
The translations for both are: I’m going to school to study
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Can the complementiser 고 be used along with the accusative case marker 를?
Since 고-led CP is comparable to DP, I am wondering whether it can be followed by any case marker. Moreover, since there are sentences such as
갔다고만 말했다. or 갔다고도 말했다., where the 고 is followed by some ...
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can you help me analyze this sentencce?
보기와 같이 ____에 들어갈 가장 알맞은 것을 고르싶시오
I know the general meaning,but I don't know how the part 들어갈 works,can you explain the sentence from grammatical perspective?
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