"I go home and sleep."
Translation:저는 집에 가서 잠을 자요.
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Notice how "go home" and "sleep" can't be done at the same time so we use the causative conjuction -서 to basically mean "and then", just as the tips and notes for this skill points out.
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Thank you for bringing this up. My take:
▪CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
"-고", and/also. Conjunction used to join concurrent, independent actions/states. Their occurence can happen in an arbitrary order with the same outcome.
저는 집에 가고 잠을 자요. I go home and sleep, in no particular order. (I go home and I also sleep)
▪SEQUENTIAL (STEP-BY-STEP) ORDER
"-[고 나]서" (not, -아/-어서), [and] then/next. It indicates completion of one action before the next one can take place.
저는 집에 가서 잠을 자요. = I go home, then I go to sleep.
저는 집에 가고 나서 잠을 자요. = I go home and then I go to sleep.
▪PURPOSEFUL ORDER
"(으)면서", in order to/so that. 면서 (usually meaning 'while' describing two simultaneous actions) can be used as a form of sequential order to express a purpose.
저는 집에 가면서 잠을 자요. = I go home in order to sleep.
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Is there a rule that says that if you have two verbs(go & sleep) in the sentence that they both need to go towards the end together like in this sentence?
The 아서/어서 ending connects one verb to something else. Another translation for the sentence would he "I go home so I [can] sleep.". 아서/어서 describes a reasoning or consequence of an action.
자다 is to sleep and is perfectly fine on its own... 잠을 is also like slumbed of sleeping hopw this kinda helps
Wouldn't this mean "since I go home I sleep" or "I go home, so I sleep" ?
I know this question is already 3 months old, but since it's an interesting one, I want to answer anyways. My Korean teacher said that the 서 particle is used in connection with the sentence part before, which basically means if you do the first thing to be able to do the second, 서 is the right word to use. Otherwise, it would be 고 (as you probably already learned). Knowing this, this sentence would probably get translated as "I go home to sleep."
"저는 집에 가서 잠을 자요."
저 - polite form of "I" (casual form would be "나")
는 - topic particle - the sentence is about you, which is why you use this one.
집 - means house, but I connection with a person (저, I in this case), it means that person's home)
에 - place/time particle, in this case it's the place particle for the verb 가다, to go and marks the place WHERE you go.
가 - conjugated form of 가다, to go
서 - 아서/어서 after verbs is used to connect it to another part of the sentence. Common, easy to remember translation is "so", but it's also used, like in this case, to say what you did to be able to do the next thing. It gives the sentence the meaning of "I go home to sleep.".
줌을 자요. - conjugated form of 줌을 자다, to sleep. This is the long form though and normally you would just use 자다, which also means to sleep.
~서 between two verbs (here attached to the verb 'to go/가다" in 가서) is used to show two linked actions happening one after the other (not at the same time, for that ~고 is used) so it's similar to 'and then'
Wasn't there an example where this same sentence was translated as 저는 자러 집에 가요? I was just marked wrong for using this form.