악돌’s First Steps to Serious Korean Part 1 (4/4)
Part 1 (¼) Introduction is here: [LINK] Read the full lesson here on my Wordpress site: [LINK]
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Conclusion
We spent most of our time today learning the differences between these two sentences:
저는 사과가 좋아요. 저는 사과를 좋아해요.
We learned that the fundamental difference between the two sentences are “Verbs” (aka Predicates). The first sentence uses a descriptive verb, 좋다 -> 좋아요, to describe the subject 사과. The second sentence uses an action verb, 좋아하다 -> 좋아해요, to say that the subject 저 likes the direct object, 사과. 좋아하다 takes a direct object because it is a transitive verb.
We also learned three particles: subject particle 이/가, topic particle 은/는, and object particle을/를. These particles mark a word with their function in a sentence. They are not present in the English language. When we want to talk about ourselves, we will always use “저는” for now, because it’s ok to be confused about when to use the subject particle or the topic particle.
The object particle, on the other hand, marks the direct object of a verb. The Korean “Subject-Object-Verb” (S-O-V) sentence structure matches the English “Subject-Verb-Object” (S-V-O) structure when a transitive action verb is used.
WHAT CAN I DO WITH THIS KNOWLEDGE?
You can use this sentence structure to say many things. All you have to do now is substitute the nouns, objects, and verbs in this sentence structure to at least say “I like …” or “(Friend) likes …”
저는 KPOP을 좋아해요. 악돌은 케이크를 좋아해요. Lovelyz가 좋아요.
In our next lesson, we will learn how to use predicates to modify nouns and create more complicated sentences like this:
저는 악돌이 좋아하는 맛있는 케이크를 좋아해요. (~ I like the delicious cake that 악돌 likes.)
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