#subject particles

[ling-n-lang]

subject and topic particles in Korean + more resources: 1, 2, 3

[koregoh]

🌹my first lesson- greetings, particles...

my first lesson will be coffee themed!

if I get anything wrong in this lesson please let me know!

🌹 there are many ways to greet someone in korean but the most popular is

한녕하세요 - Hello

but let me guess, we all know that by now right?

let’s get to the more complicated stuff. Particles!

in Korean, sentences are written as subject-object-verb or subject-adjective

for example:

커피- coffee

좋아해요- (I)like

나-I

는- subject marking particle

를- object marking particle

나(I)는(Subject particle) 커피(Coffee)를(Object) 좋아해요(Like) - I like coffee

I coffee like = I like coffee

🌹 I hope that my future lessons aren’t as short, but I do not want to push myself just yet, I plan to study 에- in the next lesson! 

[hanguk-mal-blog]

SUBJECT PARTICLES

A particle shows the relationship between the word/phrase preceding it and the rest of the sentence. In general, the Korean sentence structure is Subject-Object-Verb; e.g. John(subject) the ball(object) kicks(verb).  The sentence structure can be Object-Subject-Verb too. 

Hence, we need particles to differentiate which word in a sentence is a subject, object etc.

In this case, we are looking at the particles used for subject, 이 (i) & 가 (ga). 

이 (i) is shaped after a consonant, while 가 (ga) is shaped after a vowel.