"나는 개"

Translation: Flying dog

[muniz95]

So "naneun" can be either "I" or "flying", and defined by the context?

[Ash-Fred]

"I am a dog." would be "나는 개입니다."

[MiKomprenasVin]

So, 나는 나는개입니다 would be "I am a flying dog? The first 나는 can be omitted given context, no?

This seems ambiguous, though I'm sure it's fine in practice.

[Hamza715817]

So why is there a sentence 나는 나는 남자? Without the 입니다 part

[wintertriangles]

날다 is one of those irregular verbs that lose the bottom consonant for certain situations. 나는 비행기 = flying plane. Without the rest of the sentence it's kinda weird but in terms of a sentence fragment it makes a lot more sentence to say "flying dog" than "I dog."

[Ash-Fred]

Excellent explanation, but every verb whose stem ends in ㄹ does the same conjugation as 날다, so technically is not considered irregular.

[LiKenun]

It’s regularly irregular. :)

[safibta]

Translation of "I am a dog" would need a word for "am" which is 입니다.

[Miteruzo]

Native Korean speakers omit 이다 often.

[WolfgangMakoto]

As Miteruzo has correctly pointed out, Koreans often omit the copula. I even assume, most Koreans would translate this as "I am a dog".

[Brett565243]

나는 comes from the Korean verb 날다 which is to fly. 나는 comes from 나 with the marker 는 on it. So yea it's tricky.

[Avril529121]

Everyone who has seen Hwarang will know who this is about lol

[sugalba]

Best comment.

[Bangexlpinkever]

That was '개 새'

[doodling.potata]

lol i crieddd best comment

[Yoshi.5]

omg-

[Lifegoeson134340]

Ahh yes 개새!

[KanKanMikan]

[Jeon_Grace]

Lmao

[Yoshi.5]

LMAO

[jlo797]

Lol

[Ruhi.Kulye]

my gay ass thought that duolingo was finally coming out

[YpnjGkKy]

First translation i thought when i read naneun gae:

"I'm gae"

[eerdogan]

Would 날린 개 mean the same thing? What is the difference between 날다 and 날리다?

[Ash-Fred]

"to fly" and "to make (object) fly".

[SowmyaSam]

Thanks man, you help a lot with all of these lessons, i wanted to let you know .

[AlanVzquez9]

날다 is 'to fly' and 날리다 is 'to send flying'

[zzing7]

하늘을 나는 새
The bird flying in the sky
(the bird flies itself)

소년이 하늘로 날린 연
The kite flying in the sky by the boy
바람에 날린 연
The kite blown by the wind
(someone or something make the kite fly)

[doodling.potata]

naneun gae. me: dUo iM biSexuAl

[Yoshi.5]

Felt that

[Yummyricecake]

아, 그 개가 너무 귀엽다...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SdU-GWoKXE

[HighSnaire]

So 나다 is to fly?

[sxndaygirl]

날다

[wrG33]

You never omit입니다when you mean나는 개입니다?
In Japanese, it usually happens.

[WolfgangMakoto]

In Korean it happens too. It's just that duolingo wants to play by the strictest rules here ;)

[JeonJungko106028]

Okay so, No.1- I heard Naneun Gay which means I'm gay!
No. 2- How can a dog fly?

[jlo797]

When it has wings... Lmao

[SowmyaSam]

I was having probably the worst day possible but this made me smile cause Nanu is me in my native language and I'm not out yet adskjsd

[JKJiminVBTS]

Wow talented dog...

[jlo797]

Hahah

[DarKalligraph]

Well this is slightly confusing, but that's okay..

[wamacapanj]

There needs to be a particle for this to be correct English, A flying dog. The flying dog

[Yoshi.5]

There's a lot of things up with this sentence...

[DouglasJulien]

Would "a flying dog' no also be acceptable?

[knees02]

It shouls be acceptable

[Galaxiaa__]

So basically 나는 is I and flying

[viswarkarman]

Should be 나는 원숭이. I'll get you my pretty!

[Bilos14]

Remember, this lesson is about modifiers. In this case, 나는 modifies 개. Flying dog.... as silly as it sounds. I guess if you were reading a children's story you might actually see a flying dog.

[JaviAgui2]

In the drama 화랑 there's a character calles 개새 (dog-bird) and it is usually translated as flying dog

[jaisaige]

Krypto is that you?

[WolfgangMakoto]

There's actually a manga with the name 나는 개, I'm a dog, and a Korean children's book named 내 이름은 개. While when producing Korean you should definitely use the copula (이다), understanding this sentence as 'I'm a dog', is arguably more logical than 'the flying dog'

[Abderrahma700695]

Umm excuse me what!!

[atc482]

Airbud made it to Duolingo Korean ya'll

[brocolli_holli]

Why did my brain translate it as im gay ༎ຶ‿༎ຶ

[gemoy05]

ㅠ_ㅜ

[IshikaTane3]

papago translates this as "I'm a dog"

[melaniekan9]

WAIT, I knew that "naneun" is "I" but when I clicked on the word, it didn't show "fly" so I wrote "I'm a dog" and it's false TT

[Jassa09]

not me tryna translate this as "i dog"

[Romi.araba]

i am a dog.

[yangi28]

Why didn't they put flying in the word meaning... it just has i am