Korean Language - Conjunctive Endings

When two sentences are connected, conjunctive endings follow the verb stem of the first sentence.

Examples:

1. 여름은 덥다 + (고) + 겨울은 촣다  à  여름은 덥고 겨울은 촣다.

Korean Language - Terminative Ending

Terminative Ending determines the type of sentence. A sentence may be Declarative, Interrogative, Imperative or Propositive depending upon the type of verb ending.

A Chart for explaining different type of sentences in a terminative ending is as below:

Sentence Type

Vst * + Ter. Ending

Korean language - Verb Endings:

In Korean what a sentence conveys depends a lot on the ending of the main verb of the sentence. There are certain predefined endings to the verb and these make a rule of meaning to be conveyed.

Ideally there are three types of endings for a Korean Verb

1.Terminative Ending.

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2. Conjunctive Ending

Korean Language - Sentence structure

The simple structure of Korean Language can be explained as simple combinations of a subject and a predicate. The further sentence complexity is built upon this basic sentence structure. There are four basic sentence types of Korean, which are determined by the type of the verb used in the sentence.

Korean Sentence Types Chart

 

Structure

Examples

Mixed Script in Korean (Chinese characters and Korean Characters)

Mixed Script in Korean

(Chinese characters and Korean Characters)

Reading and Pronunciation of Korean Script

eeping aside few predefined rules of pronunciation Korean, Korean script is pretty straight forward to pronounce. The words are pronounced the way they are written, and unlike English where there are many exceptions, Korean has very few exceptions. There are few rules where consonant plus consonant make new sound. We will deal with it coming topics.

How words are Read

Korean Language- Word Structure

orean is one of those very few languages which are developed after a well research. It is one of those very few scientific languages of the world.