"저는 사과를 먹습니다."
Translation:I eat an apple.
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It's the object marker. You use 를 because 사과 ends in a vowel. For words that end in a consonant, you use 을.
(을/를) - is used when we're talking about the 'object' of the verb.
And ( 으로/로) is used for the ' instrument' used to perform the action.
Like if we're talking about ' eating food' then we'd use the 을/를, but if we're saying ' eating food with chopsticks', then chopsticks would have 으로/로
Is 들 plural? I know that women is 여자들 but I looked up hand and hands and it was 손 and 소유. Are there different was to pluralize in Korean?
1) 소유 means "ownership/possession". A sentence like, "I have the property in my hands." isn't talking about literal hands, but possessing the object.
2) 들 is often left out as unnecessary. People use it for emphasis as needed.
Technically/grammatically, "I'm eating an apple." should be "저는 사과를 먹고 있습니다." (as is using the present continuous form in Korean).
In real life, though, Koreans will say "저는 사과를 먹습니다." and mean that they're eating an apple currently.
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Duo really could have spread this lessen out a bit more. So far I have had 10 new verbs thrown at me all while trying to figure out (으)로, 와/과 and 하고 with 함께/같이, 에, 에서, 까지, topic markers, subject markers, and now object markers. I'm only on lesson three and so far each lesson has taken me an hour to get through ㅠㅠ and based on the tips I still haven't come across everything
