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- "남자가 길에서 섭니다."
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Both 길에서 and 길에 are acceptable? I know that the first means from the and the second from (roughly) but in the past question it translated 학생들이 길에 섭니다 as "The students stand in the street"
길에 , would be used to convey location--as to say the students are standing (and doing nothing else) in the street. 길에서 would be used if they are kneeling or sitting and then stand up. The duolingo app does a lousy job of explaining this concept.
If you were in Korea and used either, people would understand you.
길에서 would make more sense if you were to say that they were jumping in the street. The marker 에서 is used with verbs describing action.
I hope that this helps.
The man in the streets stands up. = 길에 있는 남자가 섭니다.
It's not exactly the same, even if it describes the same thing.
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I prefer that to, "The man stands up in the street." I mean how did the man get in the street without standing up till he got there, and whatever for? Google translate gives, "The man is on the road." Surely that's what it really means, that he's just standing around on the street . . .
Same, not sure if there's a semantic difference or if the set answers are just missing this one
'섭니다' is inappropriate but you can use '서있다' to express continuous present
이/가 is the subject marking particle and is used to define the subject of the sentence. It is used instead of the object marking particle (을/를) because the verb is being performed by the subject. You use the object marking particle to define what the verb is acting on. For example... "The man eats kimchi" would be "남자가 김치를 먹습니다". Kimchi is the object being eaten (or acted upon by the verb), the person eating it is the subject.
Korean particles are hard. There are:
는/은 이/가 을/를 과/와
and there are so many more.
What part of "길에서" translates to "street" and what indicates "in the?"
길 = street. 에서 = is the particle for indicate "in the".. i think. Sorry, i don't speak English ;-;
길 = street. 에서 = is the particle for indicate "in the".. i think. Sorry, i don't speak English ;-;
the 에서 means from, so it makes sense to use it if someone else is doing an action somewhere?
"에서 means from"
Not exactly. It has other meanings as well. It's also used to convey that you go to the location to do the action mentioned in the verb.
For example: 학교에서 일해요. Means that I work at the school, but implies that I go there first. It doesn't mean "from" in that case.
Can someone please tell me when you pronounce "ㄹ" as a "R" and when as a "L"
Yashika782579 I was told the sound it makes is similar to both the "R" and "L" sound
I said the man stands in the road and got it wrong .. is road and street 2 different words in korean?
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https://www.duolingo.com/skill/ko/regular-verbs/tips-and-notes
- With verbs of motion: ~에/에서 = "to"/"from"
- With stationary verbs: ~에/에서 = "where the sentence takes place"/"where the action takes place"
And then falls back down cause he took too long standing up and got run over by a truck.... lol...? Maybe.....? Or too dark? *shrug too bad
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The verb is 서다.
- Formal: 섭니다
- Polite: 서요
- Casual: 서
- Written: 선다
Edit: Corrected a typo on the polite and casual conjugations.
"The man stand" is improper English, which is why it wasn't accepted.
If you change "stand" to "stands", then it would be grammatically correct.
