"I have a friend's tea."
Translation:저는 친구의 차가 있습니다.
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how do you all know how to say this?? duolingo never had any lesson on sentence structure or possessive pronouns or anything
They don't really have lessons, but if you pay attention to the structures of the sentences they do give you to translate, you'll start to notice a pattern. When I first started learning Korean I thought the sentence structure was going to be one of the things I'd have the most trouble with because it's so different from English, but it's really just observation and intuition, at least for me.
I hope this help
자는= i + topic marker (는). Another topic marker is 은 the only difference is tha wea use it when the word ends with a consonant, eg: 빵은
친구의= friend + (의) a possession marking particle. Is like the ['s] in English.
자가= Tea + (가) subjet marker, another subjet marker is 이 we will use it when a word ends with a consonant (eg. 빵기) and we use the 가 when the word ends with a vowel.
있습니다= It means there is/ to existed/ to be located. It is a verb that indicate existence. (It can also mean 'to have')
Everyone go to howtostudykorean.com to learn grammer and whatnot.. i did and i have a better understanding of the korean language. Also use the memrise app with it to help ^^
The tips and notes on the Duolingo site are helpful too. You can find them here. https://duome.eu/tips/en/ko
English sentence structure is SVO: Subject Verb Object. Korean sentence structure is SOV: Subject Object Verb. So, when looking at the English sentence you can see which part is subject, verb, and/or object based on the order of the words. You can then rearrange the words in the korean sentence structure order when translating your sentence. This is just what i learned but im open to critique. I hope this is helpful :)
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at first i didnt notice the "tea" so i only put 저는 친구의 있습니다 instead of 저는 친구의 차가 있습니다 and it said its correct
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In my opinion, this app is great to practice listening to the diction, learning new vocab, etc. I think this app is also more beneficial if used simultaneously with other learning sources like Coursera, Skill Share, and websites like TalkToMeInKorean and HowtoStudyKorean (who offer more detailed information...more theory based which you would have to pay for...but the last website does have free lessons PDFs you can access) Now, I've never really checked out Duolingo's website. So, I'll definitely check it out.
Happy learning guys!!! 안녕