Negative
In the modern world, humans finally found the most important question that protects themselves from every artificial intelligence : Are you a robot? Today, we are going to learn how to answer the question properly in the Korean language to defeat AIs. Sorry robots.
Negative in Korean Language
How do you make a negative sentence in English? Yes, you only need to add โnotโ. Then another question, how do you say โitโs not possibleโ without using โnotโ?
Itโs easy. you can say โitโs impossibleโ instead of โnot possibleโ. Thatโs how the Korean language makes negative sentences. The Korean language uses the affix โ์ [an]โ.
In the Korean language , making negative sentences is very similar to โimโ in โimpossibleโ. The Korean language uses a prefix ์ [an] and it works just like โimโ which means โnotโ. ์ is attached to the verb with no spacing and it makes the verb negative. Pop quiz! how do you make ์ ๋ ํ๊ตญ์ด ๊ณต๋ถํด์ into the negative form?
Prefix ์
Probably you said โ์ ๋ ํ๊ตญ์ด ์๊ณต๋ถํด์โ. Itโs hard to say itโs 100% incorrect but itโs not so natural. Because the real verb is ํด์, not ๊ณต๋ถํด์. So, it has to be โ๊ณต๋ถ ์ํด์โ. For this part, read [ ].
Yes, the negative form has โ์โ. This is how the Korean language works. I wish I could say this is everything about Korean negative sentences but… actually we need a little bit more than that.
์ ๋ ์ด๋ ์ํด์
I donโt exercise
= Present negative after a noun / before a root
์ ๋ ์์นจ ์๋จน์ด์
I donโt have breakfast
= Present negative before a root
์ ๋ ๊ณตํฌ ์ํ ์๋ด์
I donโt watch horror movies
= Present negative after a root with ์์ conjugation
with ์ด๋ค verb (be a noun)
The negative form of ์ด๋ค is similar to ํ๋ค but Itโs slightly different. It also uses โ์โ prefix to make a negative form : ์ + ์ด์์.
However, this time, the spelling ์์ด์์ becomes ์๋์์ as how it sounds.
์๋์์ also can be the simple answer for โnoโ or โnothingโ . You can use ์๋์ instead. ์๋์ is better for every situation.
A: ํ์์ด์์?
Are you a student?
B: ์๋์์
No, Iโm not
= ์๋์์ also means โnoโ.
A: ์ด๊ฑฐ ์ค์จ ๊บผ์์?
Is it yours Jun?
B: ์๋์
No
= ์๋์ is a short version of ์๋์์
์ ์๋์ ์๋ ๊ฑฐ์์
I wonโt be a teacher
= Future tense, In the future tense lesson, youโve learn ์ด๋ค verb means different than English โwill beโ so you can use โ๋๋ค(become)โ instead.
Canโt in Korean Language
์ means โnotโ but you canโt use it to say โcanโtโ in Korean. Korean has another prefix for โcanโtโ.
๋ ๋ชป๋จน๊ฒ ์ด์
(I) canโt eat more
์ฌ๊ธฐ์ ๋ด๋ฐฐ ๋ชป ํด์
(You) canโt smoke here
๋๋ ๋ชปํ๊ฒ ์ด์
I canโt keep doing
Be bad at in Korean Language
In the Korean language, you can use ๋ชป to describe something you are bad at. itโs the same as English.
์ ๋ ๊ณต๋ถ๋ฅผ ์ ๋ชปํด์
I canโt study well
= Iโm not good at studying
์ ๋ ์ถ๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ๋ชปํด์
= I canโt play soccer
= Iโm bad at soccer
์ ๋ ๊ธฐํ๋ฅผ ๋ชป์ณ์
I canโt play guitar
= Iโm bad at playing guitar
Questions
But, I think we need to make sentences that start not with ์ ๋ (I) right? But how can we do that? What else do we need? Letโs jump into the next tutorial to find out! Iโm so proud of you by the way! Oh and, check our Patreon if you liked this tutorial!
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