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- "Yes, bread is food."
"Yes, bread is food."
Translation:예, 빵은 음식입니다.
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What's the difference between 은 and 이?? I know that one is a subject marking particle and the other is a topic marking particle...But how do we know when to use it?
People can correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure 은/는 is more general while 이/가 is more specific. In this sentence, "예, 빵은 음식입니다." It's saying that bread in general is food, but if you were to say "예, 빵이 음식입니다." you would be saying that a specific piece/loaf of bread is food. I also think that in certain context 은/는 can be used to kind of compare things.
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Kind of. According to the duolingo tips 은/는 is a topic marker (shows what the speaker is talking about) while 이/가 is a subject marker (shows who is doing the action)
This video explains it very well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCxLNRLntc0 The title of the video is "One-Stop Guide to Korean Particles - 은/는/이/가 (Subject & Topic Markers)"
I will tell you the pronounciation because I have been hearing these fo a long time. "은"Is pronounced as ûn and"이" is pronounced as Ee
https://www.italki.com/question/57162?hl=ko According to this, "예" is just a little more formal, but they're basically synonyms
I'm pretty sure 은/는 is more general while 이/가 is more specific. In this sentence, "예, 빵은 음식입니다." It's saying that bread in general is food, but if you were to say "예, 빵이 음식입니다." you would be saying that a specific piece/loaf of bread is food. I also think that in certain context 은/는 can be used to kind of compare things.
Im sorry but may i ask why we added "은" at the end of "빵". I forgot what it stands for
Yes I also confused, examples earlier, said 빵 + 이, I don’t know when we use 이 atau 은, help please?
은/는 is added to the topic of the sentence. So if i'd say: I eat. The korean sentence would be: 저는 먹어요
I think that you could do that, grammatically, but it would sound less natural than using the topic marker -- but I'm not sure!
I wrote 빵은 음시가 임니다 and it got counted as incorrect... could someone explain my mistake to me?
Well firstly food is 음식 "eum-sig" , not 음시가 "eum-si-ga", secondly you said 임니다 not 입니다 which arent the same.
OKAY so this is a glitch, that's exactly what I typed yet it said I was wrong wHaT?
I spelt wrongly, but they still mark me right. technical error sometimes
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It is the counterpart to 는. The topic markers 은/는 both mark noun clauses as the topic of the conversation. You use the former when the noun ends in a consonant and the latter when the noun ends in a vowel.
I used a particle marker but it told me I had a typo and that there was no particle marker for bread. Is this correct because that confuses me
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You do not use particles for the subject complement of the copula 이다. Instead, you simply append the copula to the complement.
Thus it is 음식입니다 as opposed to 음식이 입니다.
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Because those are two different verbs. 있어요 is the polite form of 있다 while 입니다 is the formal form of 이다.
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The three main ones (in increasing formality) are 응 (often used as a conversationaly affirmative "yes i'm following"), 네, and 예.
Returning after a long absence. Now I know why I quit. To sudden a jump from alphabet to complex sentences, with out learning vocabulary. Lessons with more than 20 new words at once.
Can Duolingo please add "pronounciation" of the sentences too... Though I get it..how to write but how to speak properly is still a problem that I am facing.
