"남자는 인기가 있습니다."
Translation:The man is popular.
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Wouldn't the sentence translate to" The man is popular?" I thought "Men are popular" would be 남차들은 인기가 있습니다 (minus my grammar error, if applicable) since it makes "man" plural...
The particle 는 is typically added to the noun you wanted to generalize, in this case 남자 meant "men" because 는 made it a general topic. It could also mean, as you indicated, "The man is popular" and the 는 in your case is used to mark the topic 남자. Adding 들 is not wrong but its not also mandatory.
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I thought the tips said you don't use 들 in general sentences. You would only use it for something like "the men."
You just change the positive/negative (있습니다/없습니다. The positive means is popular and the negative means is not popular/is unpopular.
Thanks. Can you please help me understand why 남자는 is better than 남자가 in the context of this sentence?
because,
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남자가 인기가 있습니다-the point is 'popular'
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남자는 인기가 있습니다-the point is 'men'. usually in this sentence, the point is 'MEN'.
for example: [the men are popular in korea] we can read this passage in two ways.
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남자가 한국에서 인기가 있습니다(the point is 'popular in korea')
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남자는 한국에서 인기가 있습니다(the point is 'men')
there is a slight difference in the shade of meaning between the two sentences(남자가- and 남자는-).
i really want to help you but hard to explain..
So basically, 는 or 은 establishes the "man" or other topic as more important than whwn it is established as the subject with 가 or 이? Because I remember reading that 는 and 은 come before 가 and 이 in terms of establishing importance.
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Hmm so you might say 난자가 인기가 있습니다 in response to a question like "what's popular?" since the emphasis is "popular" and say 난자는 인기가 있습니다 in response to a question like "what are men like?" since the emphasis/topic is men. Am I understanding that right?
Many r asking so I'll try to help here. The first one has a 'topic marker' (and there r two, this one especially used after a vowel) which shows what the speaker is talking about.It is adding "emphasis". here to the 'man'. what our other friend in comments was trying to explain about as 'important'=emphasis , I guess. {The other one is a 'subject marker'}.
From my understanding, you would use the particle "가" if you were trying to make the point that the subject (남자) is popular in the sense that somebody else had just described him in a different way.
For example, if somebody says "그 자는 커요" (that car is big), you might respond with "아니요, 그 자가 작아요" (no, that car is small). Your response focuses not on the car (the subject), but on the fact that it is small (the adjective), and therefore you would use the particle "가" instead of "는" to de-emphasize the subject.
I think, it can be a sentence of the type: "Cats are animals", which is identical to "A cat is an animal". "What concerns a man, he is popular" i.e. "Men are generally popular". If it is about a concrete man, about whom I start a conversation (new topic), it may be more "the man (about whom I am now going to speak" is popular". But I am also baffled about the concept of a topic marker as every other newbie.
Why are some adjectives unseparated, like 멋있습니다, but others are separated like in this example?
I'm confused about the difference between "Men" and "Man." Because I realize that sometimes they only accept "Men" but there is no "-들" at the end of "남자," So wouldn't that mean that the sentence means "A man is popular/the man is popular"? So could I replace "는" with "들", would I put them together? Or is "남자들는 인기가 있습니다 not grammatically correct?
almost same hanja(kanji) form, (人氣, 인기)
the letter 氣(기) are simplified in Japanese to 気
It says "Men are popular" but it doesn't have the plural part to it. "Man is popular" would be correct, right?
*인기가:celebrity
*인기가오:Popular
*인기가요:popular music
*인기:popularity I took help from Google translate correct me if I'm wrong.
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What is the difference: 있습니다 and 입니다 ? And for negative ( to not be ) I also noticeted there were 2
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있다 and 이다 can both be translated as "to be," but 있다 is an intransitive "to be" meaning "to exist," while 이다 is a transitive "to be" meaning "to be something."
There is no "a" or "the" in korean. So the english meaning of the korean sentence depends on the context. But it's hard to determine the context from a sample sentence.
Why is it telling me that it's men when it's 남자는 not 남자들?? Shouldn't it be "the man is popular"?
I think 아닙니다 means "is not" and 없습니다 means "doesn't have". In this case in Korean popularity is something you have so the latter is used.
How are we supposed to know if its plural or not when it doesn't use "dur"??
Can this be little bit slower ,as I am not able to understand with is said
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If you're famous you're popular, but if you're popular you're not necessarily famous
Famous is many people know about you or something you do or have, but people like or dislike you.
Popular is people like you. You may not be famous. But opnion is people like you.
A person can be both, famous and popular.
A person can be famous, and not popular, not liked.
Famous means that you are well known by a lot of people, popular means that on a small scale people get attracted to that kind of person. If you use popular with a person that doesn't mean they are famous.
What does "nikiga" mean exactly? Does it literally mean "is"? (sorry I don't have the Korean keyboard, it's the word in the middle)
inki (not niki) means popularity. Ga is a particle that indicates that inki is the subject of the verb isseumnida, which means "there is". Inki ga isseumnida means literally "there is popularity"
Why a subject marker comes after the object (the thing that is belonged or not)? I mean:
학생은 매력이 없습니다 : The student has no charm (charm means 매력)
남자는 인기가 있습니다 : Men have popularity (popularity means 인기)
Well, it is more like: As regards the pupil (學生은 is topic) charm (魅力이 is subject) does not exist.
인기 = "popularity"
So, 인기가 있습니다 translates to "is popular" (or more literally "has popularity").
인기 is the noun for popularity. The 가 is there to mark it's relation to the verb 있습니다.
The sentence can be translated more literally as "the man has popularity" but it's more natural to say "the man is popular" in English.
The sentence pattern here is
X은/는 Y이/가 있습니다 = "X has Y".
You should use 는 instead of 가 because 는/은 are used to show the topic of the conversation while 이/가 are used to to show a person who is doing an action. In the sentence there is no verb to indicate an action, there is only an adjective describing the topic which is the man.
your sentence is wrong because to mark the plural it is necessary to add 들 to 남자: 남자들 ---> men
Plural markers are not necessary in written Korean and rarely used in spoken Korean. It's primary function is to place emphasis on the plurality of the noun. Korean is a highly contextual language, so the plurality of a noun is determined by the context of the conversation.
남자는 is for singular right, so it man, if men is popular it should be 남자들는 인기가 있슴니다 the answer is wrong !!
The plurality particle 들 is optional: it is often dropped in almost every case. It is only used to place emphasis on the plurality of a noun.
남자 can indicate both a single man or a group of men. The distinction between the two is made from the context of the conversation.
Well, the sino-korean word 의미 (意味) has the meaning meaning (^‿^), for example of words or deeds, so you could use it if you translated your question into Korean.
Well, 人氣 ( 인기) means popularity. For coolness there is 멋, literally zest, dandyism, derived from 맛 taste.