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- "접시에 햄버거가 있어요."
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No, I don't think "ground beef" is what's intended here, but the sandwich, and the sandwich needs an article (a, the) because it's countable.
thats not a correct sentence. thats like saying there is a snow on the plate
Well, technically it would be if ground beef was intended, but that seems to be a different word in Korean.
"There is hamburger on the plate" means "there is ground beef on the plate", whereas "there is a hamburger on the plate" means "there is a ground beef patty sandwich on the plate".
You may mean ground beef in speech that but it is still incorrect linguistically. Once it is hamburger (patty) it is a unit, in the same way you can never say add some more sand pile.
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”There is hamburger on the plate." -> "접시에 다진 고기가 있어요." for hamburger meat, 햄버그 for Hamburg steak (Hamburg is in Germany), or maybe 솔즈베리 스테이크 for Salisbury steak, the English version (Stone Henge is in Salisbury) . . .
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What word is considered for "there" in this sentence? The way I read it is-- on the plate hamburger is.
Yeah, I think they are just inferring "there", but the word is not actually in that sentence. I put "a hamburger is on the plate" and it accepted that.
There are so many grammatically correct answers that are possible that should have been accepted, but were not.
Hamburger is on a plate.
Hamburger is on the plate.
The hamburger is on a plate.
There is hamburger on a plate.
There is hamburger on the plate.
A hamburger is on the plate.
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Of these, the only ones that are correct are:
The hamburger is on a plate. A hamburger is on the plate.
The others do not include an article for the word "hamburger" - and in English, the word "hamburger" without an article means ground beef, not a hamburger sandwich. The hamburger sandwich meaning corresponds to 햄버거, not "hamburger" without an article.
