Wednesday, March 2, 2011

WWW (19)- To Be

To be or not to be? That is the question!

We’re making big strides here.  If you haven’t already noticed, this week’s word happens to be a VERB.  In other words, we’re gonna start making sentences.  In actuality, this is probably the most important verb for you to know, hence why they always teach it first in Spanish or French class back in the States. 

Korean, being a very simple language, has only 2 forms of “to be” (or at least for the level at which I have learned it).  And it doesn’t change depending on the subject.  The only change occurs due to the ending of the previous word (i.e. if the last sound is a vowel of a consonant).

Korean:이에요
Pronunciation: i e yo
Used: last sound is a consonant

Korean: 예요
Pronunciation: ye yo
Used: last sound is a vowel

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