"Yes, schools are places."
Translation:예, 학교는 장소입니다.
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는/은 are topic markers and 가/이 are subject markers. I think that the topic of a sentence or conversation is what it is about as a whole, where the subject is what only the very following statement is about. Feel free to correct me if I am wrong.
So, is it similar to Japanese, right? Kore wa hon desu. (는)- this is a book And Kore Ga hon desu. (가) - THIS is a book.
I don’t think that's quite the right usage of は vs が. Generally, は is used when the subject is already known/has already appeared in the context, whereas が is used if some characteristic or feature has been already stated but the subject hasn't been said yet. https://www.duolingo.com/comment/6268821/Japanese-particles-%E3%81%8C-vs-%E3%81%AF
It would seem so. Here's a video about は/が https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrjHT8FAuWY&list=PLP6jQzrtQ718EBgJyqIum7rXtyOL7ksDn&index=27&t=0s
If someone knows a video explaining 가(이)/는(은), please share ^^
So 가/이 is similar to saying it as a pure fact (factual statement) while 는/은 can be used in a comparison sense
i listened to a lesson from ttmik and they basically described it using the sentence, "고양이는 저쪽에있다." (the cat is over there.) basically saying that because they marked 고양이 with the topic particle, 는, it was in relation to the conversation they were having at the present moment or to initiate a conversation. if they had marked 고양이 with the subject particle, 가, though it would have been understood as just an observation and nothing to do with the conversation at hand.
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들 is only used when plural isn't possible to guess, and when it is used, it's usually only for people, and never for general statements.
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If you want to answer to "what is the school?", you can say "학교는 장소입니다." And to "which is the place, the school or the cat?", you can say "학교가 장소입니다." The nuiance is important if you want to get your Korean better.
Duolingo needs to decided either to use 예 or 네. They both mean yes, but just stick with one of those variations because I'm tired of it telling me I have a typo.
Without the context of multiple sentences or a paragraph, there is no way to really know if 은/는 or 이/가 are correct. Don't worry about the difference if only given a single sentence. As I learned the difference, 이/가 applied the first time a noun is used, and then 은/는 afterward.
The "is" term, "입니다," makes CERTAIN things formal. 네 is informal (as you said), so you would say, "예, 학교는 장소입니다."
Why is there not subject marker i/ga for this. i thought subjects are generally used for nouns so to say it is a place rather than something else?
Because 이다 is agglutinative. When saying X is Y, you say X은 Y입니다. No particles, but the 입니다 sticks to Y.
When saying X is not Y, you do need a particle. X은 Y가 아닙니다.
Since "schools" is plural, why do we not add the plural suffix 들 ? Why is it not 예, 학교들 장소입니다 ?
For some reason it said I had a typo. I wrote:
네, 학교는 장소야.
And it said I had a typo, so it should be
네, 학교는 장소이야.
Doesn't 이야 just become 야 after a vowel?
Sooo I put in "예, 학교들는 장소들입니다." but it says the correct answer should be "예, 학교들 장소들입니다." (It just took out the 는 and labeled it as a spelling mistake) So I was wondering if mine would be correct, or if there's a reason not to have both the 들 's and the 는 in the same sentence?
