hangugeo-hands: Adjectives! Part 1 If you’ve been learning Korean, you’ve probably notic
hangugeo-hands: Adjectives! Part 1 If you’ve been learning Korean, you’ve probably noticed all verbs listed in the dictionary end in 다. In the dictionary their listed as their standard, non-conjugated form. Maybe you’ve noticed adjectives also end in 다. That’s because adjectives are basically like “descriptive verbs” in Korean. If you want to look up the word “healthy” in a English dictionary, it’ll be there. In Korean though you can’t find it in that form, you’d have to look up 건강하다 which is “to be healthy”, you can’t look up “healthy” which is “건강한” In order for English adjectives to have the same meaning as Korean “descriptive verbs” or adjectives, it needs to be in a “to be ____” form, or the Korean adjective needs to be conjugated a different way. But for now, let’s focus on different conjugations. If you know how to conjugate Korean verbs, you’re already familiar with the concept, but the rules are different. It may seem complicated at first but it really is easy to remember! Give yourself a week or two to try to remember the rules and you’ll have it down! At the end I explained the difference between spoken and written, and polite/formal and impolite/informal. Rules Weiterlesen -- source link