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Karen - Andrews wife's notebook entry: Jul 18, 2010 I'm Andrew's wife. We are both studying Korean with a friend who is teaching us, while we conversely help her with English. Andrew has studied a little more than I, having started with a few of the Korean alphabet characters followed by a few words. I have waited until I had someone teach us the correct pronunciation of each character. I'm still learning words and hope to progress to short sentences in the near future. I am curious about the Korean Grammatical structure as it appears to be quite different to English. Starting with very simple examples, can anyone give me some clues?

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I understand what you mean... in korean, Verb should be placed end of the sentence... ///////////// ////////// and Adjective come just before Noun, so adjectival clause also come just before Noun... /////////////// ////////////////////////// look at this.. for example ///////////// ////////////// 1. I have a friend and he has beautiful hands. ~ 나는 친구가 있는데, 그는 이쁜 손을 가지고 있다 ~~ ~ i friend have, He beautiful hands have ~~~ ///////// ///////////// when you combine these two sentence.... 1.I have a friend who has beautiful hands. ////////////// ///////////////// ~. 나는 이쁜 손을 가진 친구가 있다.~ ~ I, beautiful hands has, a friend have ~ //// this is the one you mentioned... /// ///////////// ////// ///////////
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I understand what you mean... in korean, Verb should be placed end of the sentence... ///////////// ////////// and Adjective come just before Noun, so adjectival clause also come just before Noun... /////////////// ////////////////////////// look at this.. for example ///////////// ////////////// 1. I have a friend and he has a beautiful. ~ 나는 친구가 있는데, 그는 이쁜 손을 가지고 있다 ~~ ~ i friend have, He beautiful hands have ~~~ ///////// ///////////// when you combine these two sentence.... 1.I have a friend who has a beautiful hands. ////////////// ///////////////// ~. 나는 이쁜 손을 가진 친구가 있다.~ ~ I, beautiful hands has, a friend have ~ //// this is the one you mentioned... /// ///////////// ////// ///////////
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Thank you. I appreciate the technical detail. I did find it a little confusing though. I can see the subject - object - verb structure, but it appears that the adjectival clause describing "friend" is completely backwards to the English. Are phrases and clauses often written this way?
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i'll show you how Korean grammer works with your first sentence of your notebook entre.. ^^ here we go! I Andrew's wife is. We both, us teaching is who friend with Korean studing. while conversely we her with english help. Subject + Verb.. is same in korean and japanese but... Subject + verb + Object is normal way to speak english... but Korean and Japanese .. Subject + Object + verb .. ^^ and in the spoken korean.. there are lots of ommited Subject! so it's hard to understand.. !! if you have skype ID add me your friend's list. my one is liketheocean75 ^^ I love to help you the pronunciation

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