For example, 나가다 is the verb meaning ‘to go out’. And if you take verb-stem ‘나가’ out and add the particle 기, it becomes ‘going out’.

고 is the particle meaning ‘and’. If you add this to the verb-stem ‘나가’ -> 나가고, it means ‘to go out and’.

I hope this helps.

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It is great to hear that you really feel 재미있다 (enjoy) by learning Korean language. I think you have great motivation and also language sense.

In English, the two sentences ‘ I remember to verb’ and ‘I remember verb+ing) have the different meaning. In Korean, yes it is the same and people find out the different meaning from particles.

So, both sentences we talked about on the previous comments, also have the different meaning. That’s why it is important to know the different meaning of particles while studying Korean. (밖에 / 밖에서)

When you want to say ‘I like to do something’ then say ‘where / such as outdoor, or inside’, you should use the particle 에서eseo.

For your sentences, I would like to recommend you use the particle 에서 with 밖 / for example, 나는 밖에서.

If you just say ‘밖에’ it means ‘TO outside’ such as ‘밖에 나가자. (Let’s go to the outside). When you use this particle 에 with action-verbs, please remind that 에서 means ‘at, in’ and 에 means ‘to’.

But if you use non-action-verbs, such as ‘to be / 있다’ then, you can use the particle 에 to mean ‘at, in’

Also, when you use the particle ‘-기’ for ‘먹기’, then the verb should have 하다, or 해 particle.

For example, you should say that 나는 밖에서 먹기 좋아해. / 나는 밖에서 먹기 좋아하다.

Other than that, everything looks perfect!

Thank you!

The first sentence means ‘I like eating.’ ‘Eating’ is a noun. I don’t know the official term for that, but it’s the ‘ing’ version of the verb. Anyway, in Korean you also need the noun version of the verb. One way to make that is by using that ‘는 것’ construction.

The second sentence means ‘I don’t want to eat outside.’ In English you say ‘to eat.’ That’s different from ‘eating,’ right? In Korean it’s also different There you use the auxiliary verb 싶다 and attach it to the main verb with 고.

To want to and to like are different things in Korean just like in English. If you want to say ‘I don’t like eating outside’ you would use a construction like in the first sentence. 나는 밖에서 먹는 것이 싫어. I hope this helps

Aah wait a minute ^^ Now that I think about your question again I think I get it. You translate the first sentence as ‘I don’t like to eat’. In that case you got ‘to eat’ in both translations in English. I get where your confusion comes from now. Anyway this is just how the grammar works. If you want to feel better about it, translate it as ‘I don’t like eating’

To say ‘I don’t want to go out’, you can say that ‘나는 밖에 나가고 싶지 않아. / 나는 밖에 나가기 싫어.’

‘가다’ means ‘to go’, and ‘나가다’ means ‘to go out’. So, in this case the verb ‘나가다’ is better