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- "I eat that in the bathroom."
"I eat that in the bathroom."
Translation:저는 화장실에서 그것을 먹습니다.
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Yo.... i tried putting it into the sentence without looking at the given words and... when i found the words in my head and got it right i just..... ifeel proud of myself... omg... like am i finally understanding the korean language
They input correct answers manually, and because they haven't introduced "어요" until this exercise, they assume we would write "먹습니다". You should report this question and mark your answer as "should be accepted."
Could one say, "화장실에서 저는 그것을 먹습니다"? Outside of the SOV syntax, how do the other parts of speech play into a sentence?
It depends on what you want to emphasize. "화장실에서 저는 그것을 먹습니다" puts extra strong emphasis onto the fact that the bathroom is where you eat that.
에서 at the end of word means -from- right? why in this sentence it translates like -in-?
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You should really read this. Duolingo Regular Verbs
Similar to ~으로, ~에/에서 can have another meaning when not used with a verb of motion.
Both ~에/에서 in this case mean in or at.
~에서 where an action takes place
~에 where something static is happening
So in this particular case,
저는 화장실에서 그것을 먹습니다.
화장실 – bathroom
에서 – in, at
에서 – from (with a verb of motion)
Eating is an action, not something static and isn't a verb of motion so 에서 must be used. And it means in, not from.
화장실에서 – in the bathroom.
... and the receptionist thinks: "Yet another who learned korean with Duolingo, sigh"...
I was really confused but by chance my answer was correct. I'm so lucky right
Where exactly is the best place to put the location, in the sentence? The beginning, or before the verb, or after 저는?
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Whatever you want to emphasize most, you can put first in the sentence. Someone can correct me if I'm erong, but as long as the verb is last, you are good. That's the way I learned it.
I think the one you want to emphasize more should be nearer to the end (before the verb of course :p)
그것 means 'that' while 을 is an object marker, to indicate the object which in this case here is 'that'
Why is wrong to say "저는 그것을 화장실에 먹습니다"? All I did was swapping "그것을" and "화장실에".
Why does where something happens have to appear before the verb? Is that a rule?
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From what I understand, the Korean sentence structure always has the verb at the end of the sentence so everything else would come before it.
