"가방이 있는 아이"
Translation:A child with a bag
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This grammar is pretty tricky when you first learn it. You could think of it as "the bag having baby" but that's not good for long-term understanding. The more you practice it, the more it'll click. It's almost like how adjectives are put before nouns. Spicy chicken = 매운 닭고기. You use the 는/은 or -ㄴ and then the noun. Now if you describe more...The chicken with no head = 머리가 없는 닭이.
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Of course, but it changes the meaning.
There's a difference between 'The chicken hasn't got a head' (your sentence) and 'headless chicken' - the second one is a subject/object and yours is a sentence with a VERB.
Example:
재미있다 (to be fun - verb) --> 재미있는 (fun, adjective)
Same with the '머리가 없는 닭이' and '닭이는 머리가 없어요.'
Absent context it is arbitrary, so both should be accepted. Report it if it trips you up. I did on 1/5/18.
I think they are two separate things. It's not like the child has a bag...but that there's a child, and a bad
가방이 있는 아이 (A child with a bag)
Not to be confused with:
가방에 있는 아이/가방에 이내 아이 (A child in a bag) lol
Considering we get tigers making pizzas, dragons eating babies, and chickens riding horses.... a baby in a bag wouldn't even be the weirdest thing to learn on Duolingo lol
More accurately, think of 가방 있는 as a compound adjective modifying 아이, so it would be, the bag having boy, or to make it less confusing, the boy having a bag, or the boy who has a bag, etc. etc.
i'm a bit confused with "있는", can this 'with' only be used with an object? you wouldn't say person A is "with (있는)" person B, i suppose. 있는 would mean possessive in a sense of 'belonging to', right? [am i even making any sense? sorry..]
I believe you are confused with a similar sounding word/grammar: 가방에 이내 아이 or 가방에 있는 아이
I am confused as the way the topic marker is used here, especially if I have to conjugate a longer sentence for example "A child with a bag runs".
How would you conjugate a sentence like this? I have asked a native who replied using two subject markers, therefore I got confused and I couldn't understand the reason behind two subject markers.
Thanks in advance!
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It's the first time seeing the sentence, I took a guess to what it meant - "The child is in the bag."
The hints should say that the last word comes first, but it doesn't. Everyone new to Korean will get this wrong on the first try.
Me finding my bag that the child have: Did you see my bag? Did you see my bag?
Because in English, when you have a countable noun that is singular in number, like "bag", it has to be preceded by an article, either "the" if it's a specific bag you've been talking about, or "a/an" if it's any one bag.
Accepted for me on 2019 july 20. I hope it's grammatically equal to the given Korean, not a concession to "close enough in meaning".
Can it be "a bag having child"? I feel like that's more literal while still having the same meaning
That is the meaning in Korean (you are thinking in Korean). However, in order to translate it to English you need to rethink the sentence in English. Nobody in their right mind would say "a bag having child".
...Because that's not how it's supposed to sound or work. It's supposed to be, "A child with a bag." Not "A bag with a child." It sounds like a kidnapping.
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Lol for the 없는 version i was using a template in my head (A xless B), so when i saw 있는 i thought the opposite (A xful B). But it doesn't really work, A bagful child doesn't really make sense here, it might work for words like joy or pride...
I also think this sentence means " A child that has a bag". Could anyone who knows it perfectly help me please ,,
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it IS wrong
가방이 = bag (could be either subject or object)
있는 = having
가방이 있는 = having a bag
가방이 있는 아이 = child having a bag / child with a bag
아이가 가방을 있어요 = The child has a bag.
They're also different because 아이가 가방을 있어요 is a whole sentence, while 가방이 있는 아이 is a subject (아이) developed with an adjective (가방이 있는).
