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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.
I know what you said "남자는 한곡에서 인기가 있습니다" but it's such an awkward sentance I don't think you do. No hate. But also everything you just said was singular. Men = 남자늘이
this video will help you understand 은/는, 이/가.(start 2:26) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hKEnxVwkCYA
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?
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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.
Korean sentence grammar is S-O-V. The sentence 남자는 인기가 있습니다 is S-O-V. If there is no object, then you use 남자가. An example would be 남자가 있습니다. That's how I understand it. Someone please correct me if I am wrong. Just a beginner here.
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...
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.
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 are some adjectives unseparated, like 멋있습니다, but others are separated like in this example?
It says "Men are popular" but it doesn't have the plural part to it. "Man is popular" would be correct, right?
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?
Your sentence seems correct, but for one detail: 男子들은, because the plural particle ends in a consonant. As I try to understand, the plural is only expressed if really necessary, and in general sentences like this "a man is / the man is / the men are / men are" are all possible translations.
If you're famous you're popular, but if you're popular you're not necessarily famous
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.
almost same hanja(kanji) form, (人氣, 인기)
the letter 氣(기) are simplified in Japanese to 気
Is there someone who talk in bahasa here?? I need to learn thia in bahasa please
Why is it telling me that it's men when it's 남자는 not 남자들?? Shouldn't it be "the man is popular"?
I feel like the difference between "men are popular" and "men are cool" is too complex to be distinguished between at this early of a level
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)
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.
