Lesson 9.01.2: Topic marker nuances with Namjoon! (btsfakesubs)
Remember how this old thing, was a thing:
Do you wanna be on your way to crafting poetic, nuanced sentences in Korean?! Like the king of lyrical poetry Kim Namjoon does? Well look no further my friend. To an RM vLive (with fake subs ofc).
This is an example of how we can be using 은 and 는 as topic markers to pick out different words to create varying emphasis and switch around the topic. Purely by moving the position of the topic marker! How cool hey? Confusing AF but COOL.
So a neutral sentence like in eg.1:
오늘 날씨 좋네요. = “The weather’s good today”
(o-neul nal-ssi jot-ne-yo)
Can become a sentence that focuses on TODAY, by placing the topic marker after the word “today”
오늘은 날씨 좋네요. = “The weather’s good TODAY”
(o-neul-EUN nal-ssi jot-ne-yo)
OR can become a sentence that focuses on THE WEATHER, by placing the topic marker after the word “weather”
오늘 날씨는 좋네요. = “The WEATHER’s good today”
[o-neul nal-ssi-NEUN jot-ne-yo]
Ah language is a beautiful and complicated thing. If this were Namjoon actually teaching you, how much more focused would you be. Pls fly across the seas to me RM. I’ll pay you copious amounts of money I don’t have, for you to be my Korean tutor. Alas.