What (무엇)
Posted by Maureen on February 21, 2008
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Today we are going to learn about the word “What” (무엇) and a little bit more about object markers. But before I begin, I would like to announce that Korean Diary is moving over to WordPress.com so our site might change on you within the next couple of weeks, so please don’t be surprised!
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In Korean, there are very confusing things called noun markers. You’ve already seen one - the 은/는. This is another one, the 을/를. This basically attaches itself to the noun, 을 for words that end in a consonant, and 를 for words that end in a vowel. You attach these to the “Subject” in a sentence. Like the 은/는, it translate similiar “as for …”
So if you’d like to use “What” in a sentence, you have to add this little marker to it.
It takes a lot of practice to figure out which marker to use with which noun, but the gist of it is that you use 을/를 if it is the subject of the sentence and 은/는 if it is the direct object.
Can you figure out how you would say “What do you study?” You remember how to say “you study?”
If you guessed:
무엇을 공부합니까?
Then you are correct!
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