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- "I give my friend a present."
"I give my friend a present."
Translation:제가 친구에게 선물을 줍니다.
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I believe ots because the friend is the msin subject of the sentence... maybe?
I looked it up and You're basically right i think just not in a literal sense. Like if you were writing a paragraph about yourself you use 저는 but after that sentence you can just refer to yourself as 제가 because it's no longer important to point out the you are talking about you. So i think this sentence is just introducing that idea and showing the your focus is on the friend here.
I'm not a native speaker i just Google these things lol
I made some typos and you can't edit your messages in the app so i apologize for that! I hope you get the gist.
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Friend can't be the subject--at least not in the English. And unless the Korean is a passive construction, it doesn't seem to be a subject there, either.
In English "I" is the subject in the sentence, and subjects in Korean end in either "이" or "가" (which in this case is 가 because the 제 ends in a vowel), so it would have to be the form that uses the 가. If the sentence was focusing on specifying that it was "I" who gave the present, then it would be 저는 I think.
Is it wrong if I switch 'my friend' and 'a present' in the (Korean) sentence? Or did it mark me wrong mistakenly?
Subject and object can switch places but I believe that the verbs are mostly at the end. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.
I think its because the sentence is telling you that you gave your present a friend. "친구에게" is before the verb "줍니다" meaning that you gave your friend and "선물을" is after "제가" meaning the present is yours. Thats the way I understand it
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I had also a big confuse about that but, I start seeing the way that the present is the thing that should be given and not the friend so the present must be agglutinated to the verb and not the friend
Instead of: 제가 친구에게 선물을 줍니다. "I give A friend a present." Shouldn't it be ? : 제가 저의 친구에게 선물을 줍니다. "I give MY friend a present."
Because the focus in this sentence is on the friend, not "I", 져가 is used instead of 저는 (I'm not a native speaker tho)
I don't understand why the 선물 needs the 을 at the end of it. Can someone explain what it means and why I need it?
None of them. It's implied by the context of the sentence, not stated explicitly.
No, it's fine as long as you're using the particles, but Duolingo has a preferred order. Just report it and mark the "my answer should be accepted" box. ^^
Should I definitely say 선물을? Do natives say just 선물? Because I thought they did.
The noun is 선물, the particle 을/를 marks the direct object in a sentence. In this case, it's used to mark the gift as being given. English relies entirely on word order to determine which word plays which role in a sentence, but Korean (among many other languages) uses special markers to point it out explicitly. 는/은 is the conversation topic 가/이 is the sentence subject 를/을 is the direct object of a transitive verb In Korean there are also other suffixes (words stuck onto the ends of other words) that function like English prepositions (on, in, to, at, and so on); they're called postpositions, because they come after the word they modify.
When speaking to one another in person they often drop particles but when writing it particles are important.
How do i know to correctly structure my sentences. In English, its "I give my friend a present" but in Korean, its " I my friend a present give". Help meeeee
Seems like you figired it out perfectly fine yourself without help: English is a Subject-Verb-Object (SVO) language, Korean is SOV.
It's not a silly question. Actually, by virtue of the ~가 particle, 제가 is the subject and means "I." "My" is not written out; it's understood that the friend is "my friend" because the subject is "I." Literally: 제("I")가(subject) 친구("friend")에게(to) 선물("present")을(object) 줍("give")니다(declarative, respect form).
You've probably figured this by now, but -ege means to and -egeseo means from. Moreover they're both formal ways of "to" and "from" (as opposed to -e and -eseo, which are more casual).
Is there a correct order for direct/indirect objects? Like, could 친구에게 and 산물을 be switched, or is the order set?
I think "저는 선물을 제 친구에게 줘요" should be also be correct but it says my solution is wrong
Where English uses word order or prepositions, Korean uses this affixes. You do not give your friend away, but a present, and the recipient, to whom you give the present is your friend. This to whom is expressed by 에게.
