"그녀의 머리카락은 검어요."

Translation: Her hair is black.

[ling.ko]

"그녀는 머리카락이 검어요." and "She has black hair." would be a better sentence set.

[MarcoMata624763]

Wouldn't that be something along the lines of "그녀는 검은 머리카락이 있어요"? Or are these the same? Or am I completely off?

[tessabanessa]

Hey great question. In Korean, adjectives all come in descriptive verb form. So while your sentence is also correct, the original sentence is more natural. By adding the 은 ending of a descriptive verb you are turning the verb into an adjective, but for simple sentences it's usually more natural to use the descriptive verb as opposed to an adjective with 있다/이다.

[ANeFv]

Anyone know what 카락 translates? I've only ever seen 머리 alone used for head and hair

[ling.ko]

카락 etymologically originated from '가락', which means a thin and long material like threads. '머리' means 'head', but it can mean 'hair', too. '머리카락' means 'hair' only.

[LiKenun]

The pattern is intuitive if you think about slender extensions of your body all as a kind of 가락:

• 손가락: fingers
• 발가락: toes

[KookieBTSARMY101]

Thank you so much your comment really helped:)

[zeairr]

A similar word/part is used in the words for finger (손카락) and toe (발가락). I was always under the impression that 가락 and 카락 refer to extremities.

[imma_potato123]

내 머리카락이 너무 길어♡

[shawdusk]

I also translated to "She has black hair" and was wrong, though I'm sure there may be a reason for this.

[Cassandra983]

In this sentence, "black" is part of the verb. Her hair is black.

[Fauziaaang]

_머리_에 뿔이 솟아 
But I love it
넌 내 왕관이 되지
두근두근 두근대는 감각

[IG.wanda_1995]

But rosé don't like black hair, i think so. ;)