"가수는 재미없습니다."
Translation:The singer is not fun.
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Well, both Korean and Japanese language have their roots in Chinese, so you'll find a lot of words are similar!
No, they don't. Korean is a language isolate. It has just borrowed a lot of words from Chinese. Japanese is also a member of a completely separate langauge family. There is borrowing between the three languages (largely due to Chinese and Japanese imperialism and the close proximity of the countries), but none of those three languages share common roots. Neither Japanese nor Korean come from Chinese.
There is a long period in Korean history when Japan occupied Korea...the language probably picked up a lot of Japanese words then
I am wondering if the translation is correct. I taught english in Korea and students would often think that something that is "fun" is funny, which i believe is incorrect. When something is funny, doesnt it mean that it makes you laugh?
Could be the way the verb "funny" was created from the nominal stem "fun". You should have a look at the hanja roots for these to find out. I've found that with Korean once I stopped equating their grammar rules with English, it made the language easier.
This is a common mistake for English language learners. In many languages, fun and funny are the same word. I don't know about in Korean.
When I clicked on 가수는 it said singer then i clicked on 재미없습니디 that said is boring so i put in is boring but i ended up getting it wrong and seeing the actual correct sentence which was A singer is not fun so i clicked on the words again, thinking i read them wrong, but no, they still said the same thing so i got confused. Please fix that so people like me dont get the question wrong!!
i'm here just because it reminded me a Bangtantv episode: JH: Jimin you very not fun RM: Jimin, you got no jams, legendary
You should flag it as an alternate solution.
Now, if I put on my pedantic hat, if you asked me to translate "The singer is boring" I'd probably say "가수는 지루하다". I think the intent of the above translation is to point out that 없다 means to "not have" or to "not be" something. So the singer "is not" 재미. The signer is not fun.
재미없다 itself is a single word.
There is no subject particle because a topic particle is used instead. Because this sentence is so simple there is no distinguishable difference between using 가 or 는, but in more complex sentences, using one or the other would affect the nuance.
Can you please explain more about this? I still don't understand it too, why not 재미가? Because there is another question which answered 가수는 인기가 ..., using 가 particle
Isn't it The singer is not fun, since it is neun not eun? I would write in Korean but I don't have the keyboard:'(
Since 가수 ends with a vowel you would always use 는 and never 은.
Korean doesn't really have definite or indefinite articles, so there is no distinction between "a singer" and "the singer". It's all based on context.
In another question in the same lesson "A man is not popular" is translated as "남자는 인기가 없습니다." Here the adjective is just connected to the -nida verb. So when do I use a space between the adjective and the -nida form?
They're both the same. I believe it's to stress the subject, but someone can fact check me on that. I see it in the same way you can say it two ways in English too:
The man is not popular.
The man has no popularity.
They both mean the same thing, there's just slightly different emphasis on the subject.
가수는 재미 없습니다 I think that this sentence is really important to use it if you decide to go to korea ✌
Please explain me it I can't understand the words.... why they put "는" this word after " 가수" ... It's a lot of confusion
I think "는" means " the" it's basically there to imply that the sentence is talking about a specific singer... Not singers in general... Hope this helped :D
Please explain what symbols represent the verb "is" and the adjective "boring"? Thank you.
So I guess that last part can mean uncool, unpopular, not fun etc. So just adjectives of that I suppose. So simple :)
How do you distinguish fun from interesting? It said only fun was the answer.
So sometimes I see the 가/이 attached to the word before the 없습니다/있습니다. Is there a rule for when to add it on or not? Or does it change the meaning?
Possibly because you're missing articles ("a" or "the"). The English translation needs to make as much sense as the original Korean sentence
What is the difference between 재미 and 장난?? Is there kind of how to use it?
The audio does not rate the actual word wheb you need to say a word. It rates the pitch /wavelengths of sounds.
Its doesn't acknowledge the word you speak. It rates only sound pitch.. i said the wrong word with the same pitch and i get points, i said the right word with right pronunciation and i get it wrong. Minus one heart.
Waitttt where is boring i cant see u not type boringgg soo what can i doo reallh i hate this app wth ???
Waittt u not typed boring so what can i do wth mam reallg i hate this app
Korea is good they are very kind and they have lots of friendly korea is colonzed of japan But the passion of Koreans overcame the pain of colonization.
재미없습니다 can mean both "to not be fun" and "to not be interesting", so why is only "not fun" allowed here as answer?
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When this was used in other sentence it meant the man is cool but here its totally opposite why??
I just want be more good with my korean and i don't know if my korean are good or not so i don't know if i can speak or not i'm gabonese and i'am 14 years old and i just want to speak with another people and without duolingo and his some exercices my english should be like in french we said "du n'importe quoi" so thank you duolingo and fighting
From what I've heard so far i feel like this app has some grudge against singers. lol.
Isn't it supposed to be 'the singer is not fun (boring)' instead of 'a singer is not fun'? Since we are using 는
Okay, the confusion still remains after reading the comments. One time Duolingo says it means "fun/not fun" and the other time it's "interesting/uninteresting". Do they mean the same in Korean or not?