"I sing at the library."
Translation:저는 도서관에서 노래를 합니다.
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Does it matter if I put together the "노래를 합니다" to make "노래합니다"? Is there a gramatical difference?
I know it may be redundant but why is it wrong to say 노래를 노래합니다? If 노래를 합니다 is to do a song and 노래합니다 is to sing, wouldn't 노래를 노래합니다 mean something like to sing a song? I tried but the app said it's wrong :(
It's a little bit of coincidence that 노래합니다 ( do a song ) means exactly the same as it does in English. But that's not always the case.
It's true that 합니다 actually means "do". And that 노래합니다 means "do a song".
But you should know that...
"Do a song" in korean is different from "do a song" in English.
Here is an example: 한국어 합니다 means "do Korean" which means "speak korean"
But in English, "do english" doesn't mean "speak English"
Therefore, 합니다 ( do ) is added to a noun ( the object ) to create a verb to mean what we do with that object.
So it's not the same as in English. I don't know how else to explain it. I hope this helps you understand.
Also my question! I said 노래합니다, and it said it should be 노래 합니다 with a space.
에 usually means than the verb is directed toward a location (to go to school = 학교에 가다), whereas 에서 means that an action is taking place in/from that location (I sleep at home = 저는 집에서 잠을 잡니다). In this case, the speaker is actively doing something in the library, so 에서 is a better fit.
저는 도서관에서 도래합니다 Why is this not accepted??? What is the difference between " 도래합니다 " and " 도래를 합니다 "
If both 노래합니다 and 노래를 합니다 are correct, why does Duolingo count it as incorrect when I use the first version. It specifically wants the second way of saying it, implying that the first is grammatically incorrect. Not helpful.
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I seem to remember learning "to sing" as "노래를 부르다" ... basically you call out or sing out a song. That was 20yr+ ago so maybe the language has changed?
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That's how I learned it as well, but I might have been using dated resources. I wonder if 부르다 isn't used anymore, or if it's just omitted here.
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I wrote "저는 노래를 도서관에서 합니다" the first time and it was marked as wrong so I was wondering if that's the case with all 하다 verbs? Also, normally an object marked with 를 can be placed like that in a sentence, right?
