Learn how to use 이 and 가 아니다
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| No, I'm not a student. |
| Do you know how to say that in Korean? |
| Hi, my name is K-Jin. |
| In this lesson, you will learn how to negate the noun using |
| 이-가 아니에요. |
| (i-ga anieyo.) |
| Let's get started. |
| First, we'll look at the grammar and then dialogue with examples. |
| And then we'll also look at some Korean culture plus we will review what we learned. |
| Now, let's look at the sentence pattern. |
| This pattern will be the structure that all of our dialogues will follow as |
| 이-가 아니에요 |
| (i-ga anieyo) |
| which means be not. |
| For the dialogue, we could see simple sentence structure. |
| For example, |
| 학생이 아니에요. |
| (Haksaengi anieyo) |
| In this sentence, first pronoun 저는 (Jeoneun) or 나는 (naneun) is omitted. |
| If you know who we are talking about in the context, we usually omit the subject. |
| 학생 (Haksaeng) is a student and 이 아니에요 (i anieyo) is a phrase to negate I'm a student. |
| 이 (i) is a particle and 아니에요 (anieyo) is like not in English. |
| So 학생이 아니에요 (Haksaengi anieyo) means I'm not a student. |
| Let's see how to make it. |
| At first, when you negate a noun, |
| you need to attach a particle 이 (i) or 가 (ga) after the noun. |
| 이 (i) or 가 (ga) is usually used as a particle to indicate that a noun is the subject of the sentence |
| and is also used in negating the noun. |
| When the noun ends in a consonant, you have to use 이 (i) particle. |
| When the noun ends in a vowel, then you have to use 가 (ga) particle. |
| And then you can say 아니에요 (anieyo) or 아닙니다 (animnida) after that. |
| There are two kinds of polite forms in Korean. |
| 아니에요 (anieyo) is an informal polite negative copula |
| and 아닙니다 ((animnida)) is a formal negative copula. |
| If you want to say I'm not a student using |
| formal negative copula, you can say |
| 학생이 아닙니다. |
| (hagsaeng-i anibnida.) |
| If you want to say I'm not a student using |
| informal polite negative copula, you can say |
| 학생이 아니에요. |
| (hagsaeng-i anieyo.) |
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