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AFAIK numbers and counters are usually used in four ways which are following:
-X, number, counter (아이 두 명)
-num, cntr의, X (두 명의 아이)
-num, X (두 이아)
-X, num (아이 둘) (notice the 둘 instead of 두)
They can be used rather interchangeably, however, the first one seems to be more popular than the rest. Also the second one is supposedly used mainly in writing.
In North Korean orthography, there is no space in front of the counter. Therefore: 아이 두명 and 두명의 아이.
But the sentence differ from all of this ways... It's just "두 아이". So where is the counter 명?
두 아이의 사이 means "between 2 children". 사이 means gap between something. 두 아이 is 2 children. 의 is "of". So, it literally means gap of 2 children.
It indicates posession. In this case, the space (사이) "owned" by the two children. I guess a literal translation would be "between the two children's space".
사이 means like "middle" so 의 here means the middle that belongs to the children, so "in the middle of the children"
Right -> your right
Left -> your left
Between -> your "between". Of course in English we don't say "your between". :-)
What Duolingo (and most materials designed for beginners, for that matter) calls prepositions are actually nouns. For example, think of 아이의 옆 as "in front OF the children." The logic works for all Korean "prepositions," though it doesn't really hold for English. Does that make sense to you?
It's calling them prepositions because in korean that's what they are. In english it's different as you said
It isn't necessary, as the number if children is expressed, and the plural marker 들 is more often used for emphasis that there really were a lot of something.
I would say it like this, "두 장난감이 아이들의 사이에 있다"... Not sure if it is entirely correct though
In another question that features "between" the sentence is "장난감이 의자하고 책상 사이에 있어요".
Is there a reason why there is no "의" after "책상" as there is after "아이" here? Would both sentences be correct with or without the "의" or is there a reason why it's omitted in one case and not in the other?
the 이 in 장난감이 is a subject marker, so 'toy' is the subject of the sentence. In your sentence, 'There is' acts as the subject.
I think this is one of the times when word order does matter. If the sentence was "두 아이의 사이에 장난감이 있습니다" that would mean "There is a toy between two children."
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I wrote The toy is between the both children. It seems to be a better english then the 2 children
Babies ares children no? 아이 for small child so baby and 아이여자 or 아이남자 for big child so child?
아이남자 and 아이여자 have the same meaning as 아이, but just specifies the gender. Baby is 아이
