Chapter 5

Its been a long while & Goodbye

/ can be used at the conversation between two
people who have seen each in a while similar to long time no see in
English

means to go in peace and is used when the person you are

talking is leaving or going somewhere else. means to stay in
peace and is used when you are the one leaving and the other is staying
where they are for example if you are leaving the library but the other is
staying to study more you would say to say goodbye.

The Locative Particles and

Static location, goal, and dynamic location can all mean different
things in Korean. Recall that can be used to show that something
exists and when combined with verbs such as or it can
represent a goal. The different particle can be used to show the
location of an activity and refers to a dynamic location because an
action or activity takes place.
Examples
. [Static location]
. [Goal]
. [Dynamic location]
As you can see the static location uses
The goal uses directional verbs like /
And the dynamic location action verbs like , , and
.

The Basic Sentence Pattern

Korean has a subject-object-verb sentence structure instead of the
subject-verb-object. For example Yumi studies Korean in the
classroom is as follows.
Who
(subject)

Where
(complement)

What
(object)

To do
(verb)

Yumi

In the
classroom

Korean

study

Though in Korean the word order is flexible as long as you have your
particles correct and the verb stays at the end of the sentence.
.
.
Above are just a couple of examples.

 &
In Korean literally means to listen but when used to with word
(course) it can mean to take a course as in
.
I am taking a Korean class this semester.
N can be used to to show that you are doing something
with someone and literally translates to together with.

Telling Time
When telling time is used to refer to hours and is used to refer
to minutes. For the hour you must use native-Korean numbers and
when referring to minutes you use
Native
Korean
Numbers

Sino-Korean
Numbers

12

50

In Korean the time of day is stated in

detail
10 (a.m.)
3 (p.m.)
7 (evening)
11 (night)
4 (dawn)

Another way to
say 30 can
also be stated as
half 6 30
= 6.
The particle at
can be used to
specify time. ,
, and
cannot occur with
.

( ) [place]
Verb~( ) is like the expression (in order) to verb in English and is
used with verbs and to indicate the purpose of going or
coming to do something.
(2)
Examples:
A: ?
(1)
Where are you going?
A: ?
B: .
Where are you going?
Im going to play
B: .
tennis.
Im going to a Korean restaurant to have lunch A: ?
Do you like tennis?
B: , .
Yes, I like it.

( ) [place]
follows the word stem that ends in a consonant, follows the
word stem that ends in a vowel. (examples in the chart below) When
conjugating into the ( ) form you take the dictionary form drop
the and add either or .

Purpose

Destination

Directional verb

The Irregular verb / /

In Korean most verb stems do not change but some verbs are subject
to change depending on the following sound. These words are
referred to as irregular verbs. For now use and both have /
/ at the end of the stem and the changes to a when followed
by a vowel.
+ =
+ =
+ =
+ =