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blackjack
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
Location: anyang
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 Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2009 7:47 am Post subject: Korean, easy explanations |
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I'm sorry but does this make sense to you
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To create the 해요체 form of Korean verbs, do the following:
Take the stem.
Add the honorific 시 or 으시 if applicable.
If the last letter is ㅂ, change it to 우.
If the result ends in a vowel followed by 르, insert an extra ㄹ, making the end ㄹ르.
If the last vowel is now ㅡ, change it to ㅏ if the next-to-last vowel is ㅗ or ㅏ. Otherwise, change ㅡ to ㅓ.
If the last vowel is now ㅗ or ㅏ, add ㅏ요. Otherwise, add ㅓ요.
Korean spelling rules make the above rules seem just a bit more complicated in practice:
If the result ends in ㅏㅏ요, that collapses to ㅏ요.
If the result ends in ㅗㅏ요, that collapses to ㅘ요.
If the result ends in ㅜㅓ요, that collapses to ㅝ요.
If the result ends in 시ㅓ요, that collapses to 세요.
If the result ends in ㅣㅓ요, that collapses to ㅕ요.
The usual spelling rules also apply, so an ㅏ without an initial consonant is written as 아 and an ㅓ without an initial consonant is written as 어. |
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Korean/Verbs#Informal_polite_speech_level |
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giraffe
Joined: 07 Apr 2009
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| Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2009 8:21 am Post subject: |
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looks like a bad explanation of how to conjugate verbs with different end vowels into informal polite...
probably good idea not to pay attention to those explanations =p. theres alot better resources explaining this properly. You could jsut ignore that first paragraph you posted and just look at the practice examples. That pretty much sums it up. |
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Chambertin
Joined: 07 Jun 2009
Location: Gunsan
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| Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2009 10:11 am Post subject: |
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Learn Japanese first.
Japan is the New York of Asia, literally and figuratively. If you can make it there you can make it anywhere. The daily life you live prepares you for any other country in language history and humility.
Just my opinion, but if you can wrap your head around the 8 levels of inside and outside humility then the rest is a snap. |
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