Hello again, my gommy bears. Wow, I'm really into this gommy-bear-thing.
Once again, I welcome you to another episode of kOreAbOo! This time we're gonna be learning two lessons! Yay!
Let's get started, shall we?
In Korean, the most important elements tend to cluster at the end of the sentence. Meaning, the further the word to the end of the sentence, the less important the element is and is more likely to be dropped. In other words, the nearest word at the end of the sentence is the most important (e.g., verbs).
You saw at the previous lesson that eventhough the adverbs, and nouns are mixed up, the verb is still at the end of the sentence. (see previous lesson: Word Order)
Consequently, Korean sentences that have no subject or object but just a verb or an adjective, are considered gramtically correct and natural in conversation.
examples:
• 먹어요.
/meogeoyo/
Eat.
• 안녕하십니까?
/annyeonghasimnikka?/
How are you?
• 뭐 공부하세요?
/mwo gongbuhaseyo/
[what study do]
What do you study?
• 사랑해요.
/saranghaeyo/
[love do]
I love you.
Notice that none of the examples given contains the first or second person pronoun. The context determines the omission. Korean language is a context-oriented language in that any contextually understood elements may be omitted unless they are extremely important and necessary.
Korean is written from a general or bigger units before the specific or smaller units. Koreans say or write their last name first, followed by their given name (e.g. 김태형 - "Kim Taehyung").
When writing their address, the order should be:
country name, province, city, street, house number, and the name of the receiver.
대한민국, 경기도, 서울시, 금천구, 독산동 116, 김태형
/Daehan-min-guk, Gyeonggi-do, Seoul-shi, Geumcheon-gu, Doksan-dong 116, Kim Taehyung/
Republic of Korea, Gyeonggi Province, Seoul, Geumcheon District, Doksan 116, Kim Taehyung
When writing a date: year, month, day
1995년12월30일
/1995-nyeon 12-wol 30-il/
1995-year 12-month 30-day
Yep! That's it for today's episode! I hope you've learned something!
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