"저는 친구에게 편지를 보냅니다."
Translation:I send a letter to my friend.
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Definitely. The articles in this course could really use some fine tuning.
Of course "my" is not an article and will probably be covered more later.
To be fair, almost all other locations use articles excpet home and a few others like school. I go to the mall. The articles will improve with time.
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yes, she is right...some of these examples are quite odd but i believe it is all so we can better learn how to use them even in odd scenarios... :)
The translation says "MY" friend so why they didn't say 저의 친구에게 Instead of 친구에게?
It would sound a bit awkward to have 저 twice in one sentence, because it's already established that the speaker is the one sending it so it's assumed that it's the speaker's friend. If it was someone else's friend then you would specify with (other person's name)의 친구. Hope this helped lol
but this's a formal sentence so we should use "저의" instead of "내" . i mean 저 is formal, 나 informal.
Yup, 제 is the abbreviation of 저의 and it is more commonly used in conversation
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It's all about context; Koreans use context to get their meaning across. You can't think of it as direct from English translations.
There isnt a specific word order coming in korean sentences in between the subject and verb
My mom said that the first word (in chinese) means toilet paper and the second one means paper scraps xd idk if its correct but its funny
This is true for 手紙 too: Japanese てがみ is a "letter", but ㄕㄡˇㄓˇ is "toilet paper".
What other words would the dative particle 에게 (giving/sending to someone) apply to? It is only in instances of "to give" or "to send"?
So, this came up in the next question .... 여자아이는 남자에게서 개를 받습니다 which I guess means it's used with receiving as well.
Shoudn't it be " I send a letter to a friend?"
Because "I send a letter to my friend" should be 저는 내친구에게 편지를 보냅니다
I sort of know there is no A/An in korean but threre are words used to indicate possession like my=나으
Pls correct me if I am wrong.
저는 implies that I'm talking about me "in my case, I send a letter to a friend ", you assume is my friend
I have a doubt, the sentence should be * i sent a letter to my friend .* Plz anyone clear it as it sounds very odd to me .....
Perhaps because Duolingo has not taught the past tense yet. I believe that there is a character added to indicate when this is past.
He used the present tense as long as I remember if he wanted to say I sent he'd probably use The past one which I believe is 보냈어요 am not sure from the past verb
에 after 친구 is clear its like the place that you are sending a letter to ok. but what about that 게 whats the goal from it?
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에 is a place locator, so you are saying in your friend or of your friend. When you are discussing people you dont use 에, you use 에게 to indicate that the following verb is acting on that subject. For example, I could say I wrote a letter in Jeju에. But if I want to say I gave the letter to a friend in Jeju. It would be: "In Jeju에, I gave the letter to my friend에게." 에게 shows that the person you 'gave something to' is your friend.
the meaning given for 친구에게 is "a friend" not "my friend," but the app insists on "my friend" as the answer. "A friend" seems to fit the sense better.
My answer should have been accepted. If it was to my friend then there should have been 제 before 친구에게
The translation would be "I send a letter to a friend" because you never put "my" in the sentence yet you made the wrong translation
Why for I they sometimes use 저는 and other times 제가? What does it depend on? For example in the sentence: 저는 한국어를 가르칩니다 (I teach Korean)
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Because you are doing the verb towards the friend "e-ge" signifies that the verb the subject is doing is affecting the 2nd subject +e-ge
No, there would be another character added to show that it happened in the past. This sentence is in present tense. Please delete the copy of your comment below.
