Learn Korean Level 1 행복한 한국어!

Chapter 8 학교에 자전거로 와요

Today's grammar

N(으)로

-(으)세요/ -(으)십시오

V- 지 마세요/-지 마십시오.

N에서 N까지

"ㄷ" 불규칙

Today's lesson is about using things, asking people to do things, asking them not to use things and talking about distance. Let's go!

N(으)로

This means to use. Using a noun.

Example:

가: 학교에 어떻게 가요? How do you go to school?

나: 학교에 자전거로 가요. I ride a bike to school.

Now this sentence more literally says School use bike go. School에, Bike로 use, 가요 go. As I'm sure you can see by now in these chapters Korean has a lot of context grammar shows what you mean to say rather than spelling it with individual words all the time.

Once again 받침 comes into play to show when to use 로 or 으로.

받침 O = 으로 = 트럭으로

받침 X = 로 = 자전거

ㄹ 받침 = 로 = 지하철로

This is a bit different but simply if the word has ㄹ at the end then 로 will be used.

This can be used for anything when something is used.

가: 제주도에 어떻게 가요? (Jeju island famous island in Korea) How do you go to Jeju?

나: 제주도에 배로 가요. Go to Jeju by boat.

Now something a bit different but with the same principle as this one is used for going places.

무엇으로 what is used?

Example: 손을 무엇으로 씻어요? What do you use to wash your hands?

손을 비누로 씻어요. Wash hands with soap.

This concept is simple and can be used to show what is being used in a situation.

Practice!

가: 도서관에 어떻게 가요?

나: (bicycle) ______________________________.

가: 회사관에 어떻게 가요?

나: (subway) ______________________________.

Subway is 지하철 and bigger Train is 기차.

가: 종이에(paper) 무엇으로 써요?

나: (ball pen) _________________________.

-(으)세요/ -(으)십시오

Now this is added to politely ask someone to do something. Often most of us have heard 주세요. Which means please. The same is added to verbs such as 않주세요. Sit please. You hear this used a lot as people use polite terms especially attendants and such. Especially in a classroom you'll hear teachers say it to everyone "Read! Speak! Sit down everyone!" It's something I use every single day. This is also easy once again 받침 comes in.