Today we will introduce you to what order you should put Korean words in in a basic present tense sentence
We won’t go into detail about all of the sentence elements, but the basic ones you should already be aware of are:
Subject – The person or the thing the sentence describes.
Verb– a ‘doing’ word.
Object – what the Subject is doing or connected to.
Complement– A word that is required to complete the meaning of a sentence. E.G. I am Julie
Am= ‘to be’ Verb
Julie = Complement
“Subject do/does verb”
Subject+ topic/subject marking particle + verb + handa
“Subject is complement”
Subject +topic marking particle + complement + imnida
“Subject ‘verb’ object”
Subject + topic/subject marking particle + object + object marking particle + verb +handa
We will go into those particles in more detail in a few weeks time so keep an eye for that.
Simply the subject and object marking particles are just Korean syllables added to the subject and object of a sentence to identify them.
The handa/imnida parts are just to do with conjugation of the verbs. At the moment we haven’t covered how verbs are conjugated but we will in the next few weeks!