Vocabulary (Review)

Learn New Words FAST with this Lesson’s Vocab Review List

Get this lesson’s key vocab, their translations and pronunciations. Sign up for your Free Lifetime Account Now and get 7 Days of Premium Access including this feature.

Or sign up using Facebook
By clicking Join Now, you agree to our Terms of Use, Privacy Policy, and to receive our email communications, which you may opt out at any time.
Already a Member?

Lesson Transcript

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.)

Comments

Hide