Question Word

As we seen from the previous post, there was :

이것은/ 그것은 / 저것은 ] 무엇입니까?

The 무엇 is treated as a noun

There are several question words that are used to be used, such as :

No	Question word	Meaning
1.	무엇	what
2	누구	who
3	온제	when
4	어디	where
5	얼마	how much
6	왜	why
7	어떻게	how

all of these words can replace 무엇 and treated as a noun.

 

Statement and Question

In this part, there will be a simple sentences that using those three vocabs.

There will be a statement sentences and a question sentences..

Let’s start ^o^.. It reffers to previous vocabulary.

Statement Sentences
No		Sentence		Meaning
1.	ㄱ	이것은 책입니다	igeoseun ch’aek- imnida (b in imnida is read as m)	this is a book
		이것은 [ ........ ] 입니다 [ 책상 ; 창문 ; 나무 ]	igeoseun …….- imnida	this is a ………
	ㄴ	그것은 돈입니다	geugeoseun don- imnida	that is a money
		그것은 [ ........ ] 입니다 [ 연필 ; 잡지 ; 신문 ]	geugeoseun ……..- imnida	that is a …………
Question Sentences + Negative Sentences
No		Sentence		Meaning
2	ㄱ	이것은 책입니까?	igeoseun ch’aek-imnikka?	Is this a book ?
		예, 그것은 책입니다	ye, geugeoseun ch’aek-imnida	Yes, that is a book.
	ㄴ	이것은 신문입니까?	igeoseun sinmun-imnikka?	Is this a newspaper ?
		아니오, 그것은 신문이 아닙니다	anio, geugeoseun sinmuni animnida	No, that isn’t a newspaper.
		그것은 잡지입니다	geugeoseun japji-imnida	that is a magazine.
	ㄷ	이것은 표입니까?	igeoseun ph’yo-imnikka?	is this a ticket ?
		아니오, 그것은 표가 아닙니다	anio, geugeoseun ph’yoga animnida	no, that isn’t a ticket
		그것은 우표입니다 .	geugeoseun u-ph’yo-imnida	that is a stamp
3	ㄱ	저것은 집입니다	jeogeoseun jib-imnida	that is a home
		저것은 [.....]입니다 [나무 ; 역 ; 산 ]	jeogeoseun [.....]-imnida	that is a ……..
	ㄴ	저것은 집입니까?	jeogeoseun jib-imnikka?	is that a home?
		예, 저것은 집입니다 .	ye, jeogeoseun jib-imnida	yes, that is a home
		아니노, 집이 아닙니다.저것은 역입니다 .	anio, jib-i animnidajeogeoseun yeok-imnida	no, that is not a homethat is a terminal.
4	ㄱ	[이것은/ 그것은 / 저것은 ] 무엇입니까?	[ igeoseun / geugeoseun / jeogeoseun ] mueos-imnikka?	what is [this / that / that ] ?
		[그것은 / 이것은/ 저것은 ] [......]입니다 .	[geugeoseun / igeoseun / jeogeoseun ] …. imnida	[this / that / that] is a(n) …..

As we can above…There are several things that we can see :

1. there is a suffix (은) that make indicator word as a subject

2. there are 2 suffix, depend on that is a statement / question sentences

• - 입니다 : for statement sentences
• - 입니까 : for question sentences
• and it’s always written after a noun

4. for negative statetement, there are 2 ways :

• - if the noun ended with vocal (y-sound is not included), add it with …이 아닙니다
• - if the noun ended with consonant, add it with> ….가 아닙니다

5. the pattern is : indicator + a noun + [ 입니다 / 입니까 ]
6. remember the indicator!!!

• if someone ask with 이것은 then answer it with 그것은 (cos the object is farther from us)
• if someone ask with 그것은 then answer it with 이것은 (cos the object is closer to us)
• if someone ask with 저것은 then answer it with 저것은 (cos the object is far from both)

 

This and That in Korean

There are 3 ways of indicating distances, like in the previous vocabularies..

There are 이것, 그것 and 저것.

Order	Word		Explanation
ㄱ.	이것	igeot (the s in the end, read as t)	this. Used to indicate an object that is closer to the speaker than to the persom we talked with
ㄴ.	그것	geugeot	that. Used to indicate an object that is closer to the person we talked with, and far from the speaker
ㄷ.	저것	jeogeot	that. Used to indicate an object that is far from both the speaker and the person to talked with

Dont be confuse with the order part… in latin we used a, b, c, … z to show an order thing, in Korean we use :

ㄱ, ㄴ, ㄷ, ㄹ, ㅁ, ㅂ, ㅅ, ㅇ, ㅈ, ㅊ, ㅋ, ㅌ, ㅍ, and ㅎ