Sentences Order
Verbs and Adjectives = Noun (습)니다/니까?
Consonants (습)니다 /니까?
Vowels (ㅂ)니다/니까?
Let’s try to analyze each sentence shall we.
1. The weather today is good.
+ weather is [nal-ssi]
+ today is [o-neul]
+ good is [joh-da]
As we all know that in sentence order in Korean are:
· S + N
· S + V
· S + A
· S + O + V
* S = subject, N = noun, A = adjective, O = object and V = verb.
The tense of a sentence is determined by the last part of a sentence, namely, by a noun, verb or adjective. In Korean, adjectives function like verbs in that they can be converted to different forms to determine the tense of a sentence.
For example, In English, the past tense of "go" is "went."
In Korean, the past tense of "가다" (gada, go) is "갔다" (gatta, went).
The verbs function in the same way in English and Korean.
However, in the case of adjectives, the past tense of "good" in English is not "gooded" but it is written, "was good." Contrary to this, in Korean, "좋다" (jota, good) has a past tense form of "좋았다" (joatta, was good).
Compare: In English, "good" (present) → "was good" (past)
In Korean, "좋다" (present) → "좋았다" (past)
Therefore, the adjectives in Korean function like verbs in that they can be converted to a past tense or future tense, or any other tense forms.
This conversion of a verb(or adjective) to its past, future, present continuous or past continuous tense forms is called a verb (or adjective) "conjugation."
For example, · 는/은 is a topic particle
· 가/이 is a identifier particle
· 를/을 is an object particle
를/을 is an object particle - Used exclusively for verbs.
Example:
아빠가 신문을 읽습니다.
(Dad reads the newspaper.)
+ 가 states fact that 아빠 is the subject we are talking about.
And it also states that Dad reads.
+ 읽습니다 = 읽다 [to read]
And the object that Dad is reading is
+ 신문 [sin-mun] - newspaper
+ 을 [eul] – object particle
Another examples:
언니가 케이크를 먹습니다.
(My older sister eats a cake.)
+ 가 states fact that 언니 is the subject of the sentence
And it also states what the Older sister is doing.
+ 먹습니다 = 먹다 [to eat]
And the object that Older sister is eating is
+ 케이크 [ke-i-keu] – cake
+ 를 [reul] – object particle
+ 을 [eul] – for Consonant ending words and
+ 를 [reul] – for Vowel ending words
other source courtesy of: learnkoreanlp ^^
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