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- "책이 비쌉니다."
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Answered "book is expensive" for a quick answer, and they marked me wrong.....
When 이 is added to a noun, it becomes specific. In this case, 책이 is talking about a specific book.
Hence, "The book is expensive"
So you cannot say "book is expensive" because of the 이.
Is it that living things have 가 at the end and nonliving things have 이 at the end of these kinds ofvsentences or what
No, 이 and 가 can be used for both living and non-living things. Here's the difference:
이 is used when the subject ends with a consonant character.
For example: 물건 (thing) ends with a consonant ( "ㄴ" ) so we add 이 to it. Therefore: it becomes 물건이
가 is used when the subject ends with a vowel character.
Example: 차 ( tea ) ends with a vowel ( "ㅏ" ) so we add 가 to it. Therefore it becomes 차가
No, it depends only of padchim. If there is padchim ~이, if no ~가 책 > 책이 친구 > 친구가
No- i think that 이 is some kind of particle and so it 가 -- there is a really good Talk To Me In Korean lesson om topic and subject marking particles, i reccomend it!! (TTMIK level 1, lesson 9)
Yeah, 이 and 가 are subject marking particles - its basically: Words ending in a consonant-이 Words ending with a vowel- 가 Hope that helps
Why does expensive have the word cheap in it? this Just really confuses me... • ㅅ•
Think of it this way;
쌉니다 means cheap, right? And 비쌉니다 means expensive.
Just think of it as: 비 means "not". ( even though 비 doesn't really mean "not" )
So then;
비쌉니다 = not-cheap = expensive.
Don't know why they have non-English words as choices in the answer. What is "gae?"
