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- "여자들은 이상합니다."
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Really look for the "들" connected with the word. It is like the __s when it is plural in many western languages. Hope this helps. :)
That moment when you write the answer and it says you are correct.
lol I knew I'd find so many comments on this particular phrase before even checking if I was correct hehe
Could it also mean, "The women are strange” - rather than women in general or all women?
It is a general statement because of the 는. If it was 여자들가, then it would be a specific plural of women.
That doesn't make sense. If there was one, then there would not be the concept of gender, and then there would be no discrimination.
So men are popular but women are strange.. Wao Duolingo *claps sarcastically
The plural particle is just 들. It can be followed by another particle. 이/가 implies subject and 은/는 implies topic.
It's more common for them to mean as you've written, but depending on context "여자들은" could mean either women or the women and the same for "여자들이".
Consider the sentence "The woman has a dog."
You could write "여자가 개가 있어요." and it's fine grammatically, since we're talking about one woman.
But most Koreans I know would use "여자는 개가 있어요.", since it's a little easier to see who/what the sentence is focusing on.
Why whenever a search for the meaning of 이상 I get "more than" as the result?
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이상 is of Chinese origin (meaning literally "more than") and is not the same as the 이상 in 이상하다. When looking up verbs it is better to look up the dictionary form (with 하다) than just the first part (without 하다).
The tips in an earlier lesson taught us that 들 isn't used for generic statements, i.e. it would only be for "the women." If we are talking about women in general then we'd leave off the 들, so it would look the same if we were talking about women in general or one woman. Was that incorrect?
woman are strange and this or that... what a biased and oversexist app is that ?
