"저는 여자에게 선물을 줍니다."
Translation:I give the woman a present.
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I wrote "I give a woman the present" which sounds a bit naughty but still got it right
The translation of this sentence is not appropriate. 에게 is To .
저는 여자에게 선물을 줍니다. I give a present to the/a woman .
It is appropriate. We could do it either way in English, but is your translation also accepted as correct, because it should be.
I think that another character or word may be added for progressive tense.
Question…Is 줍니다 different than 보냅니다, as in by mailing it or just handing it to them? I was just confusing 'gives' and 'sends' multiple times
lol. I said gift instead present (which are practically the same) and still got it wrong XD
Report it as also correct, but only if the rest of your sentence was identical to the one at the top of the page.
It's generally Subject, Object, Verb. The particles tell you what the word's role is in the sentence. But i agree, it's quite opposite from English at times
would it be okay to say "I give a present to the woman"? because 에게 means" to"?
In English “I give a present to the woman.” = “I give the woman a present.” regardless of the other language, so if one is accepted the other should also be accepted as correct.
Before I wrote "I give a present to the woman" and it was marked as wrong, why is that???
I typed, "I sent a present to a woman" what else do you expect? Of course, I got it wrong. I am learning korean language when I haven't even mastered the English language yet
Well, "sent" is past tense when the present tense would have been "send", but it is also the wrong verb which has to do with knowing which Korean verb means which English verb. click on the Korean verb for a hint. You can send a present by mail, but when you give it you are handing to the person.
When I click on the verb on the main website through my browser, I get this page: https://www.duolingo.com/dictionary/Korean/%EC%A4%8D%EB%8B%88%EB%8B%A4/477347f6de489198cab7c9fd5178bc6f
I kept trying to put "I give a present to the woman" but the words never added up. It made me question if I was translating it right.
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im not sure but what i understood is 줍니다 = gives as in giving something to someone by person/ hand to hand 보냅니다 = send as in sending something to someone
How can I distinguish if the verb is in present progressive or simple present then?
At this stage almost all verbs are in simple present....there is a separate lesson for tenses
Just wondering: there are no definite/indefinite modes for nouns in Korean?
Korean does not have specific particles or words for indefinite articles "a" or "an". If you want to say you are talking about a specific person etc, you can use "그" (that) as a standalone modifier word right before a noun to represent the English "the".
Otherwise the conversation without that will sometimes give you clues to know if the most natural translation into English works best with ”the or "a/an".
I'm always considering: Literal translations do not always work from one language into another.
I'm always considering that "what" is not always "왜" , "to" is not always "에게".
Report whichever is not accepted as correct, but verify that everything else is exactly correct.
Why is " I gave the woman a present wrong? How does one identify tense?
Another character would be added to show that it happened in the past, I think.
I think it's better if it's "i give a present to the woman" but idk english isn't my native language
"I" is always capitalized in English. It is not necessarily better. In English “I give a present to the woman.” = “I give the woman a present.” regardless of the other language, so if one is accepted the other should also be accepted as correct.
In which language? I believe they are both correct though different word order is used in each language.
There could be a different error, so please copy and paste your entire answer.
Good! That would be wrong. The preposition "to" is possible, but no preposition is required before the indirect object when it comes before the direct object. With the verb "get" or "buy", then you could use the preposition "for", but not with the verb "give".
Is it only me, or they say 줍니다 like "tsuMnida" instead of expected something between "tsuBnida"/"tsuPnida"?
Its not just you! Duolingo so far, at least for me, hasn't taught consonant sound change rules. Theres quite a lot of them.
In this case, the rule you are seeing is when ㅂ is bottom consonant and you have ㅁ or ㄴ next in fhe following block, the ㅂ will become like an ㅁ. Example: 줍니다 sounds like 줌니다!
For your sanity look up sound change rules! It helped me a ton. Good luck and happy learning!
Funny how 선물 means "hand thing".
선 = hand
물 = kind if thing
In Mongolia we call presents as hand thing as well.
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I wrote i gave the woman a present, shouldn't it be taken? As kotean doesn't have a tense so gave and give bith should work, isn't it?
In english a gift is synonymous to present, should n't it be accepted?
Yes, if everything else is exactly correct, then report it as also correct.
Could someone explain me the to, by, a and my? Pls Cause i thought that my was 저의 and now its
Whenever i have to speak the sentence I dont have too much trouble with pronouncing it but I always sound choppy and stilted... any tips?
께 is used only for someone of higher rank.
한테 is more for spoken language.
에게 is more for written but people also use it while speaking.
‘에게’is used more in written Korean but it is also used in spoken Korean. Whereas, ‘한테’ is more often used in spoken Korean. ‘께’ is the honorific form of ‘에게’ and ‘한테’. It is used to honor the preceding noun.
https://koreanly.com/%EC%97%90%EA%B2%8C-%ED%95%9C%ED%85%8C-%EA%BB%98-grammar/
https://koreanly.com/%EC%97%90%EA%B2%8C-%ED%95%9C%ED%85%8C-%EA%BB%98-grammar/
‘Noun- 에게/한테/께’ indicates the preceding nouns is affected by an action. ‘에게/한테/께’ attach with the noun which should be people or animals. It is a particle and it indicates the preceding noun is affected by an action.