Level 1 Lesson 9 / topic,subject marking particles / 은, 는, 이, 가
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This lesson will introduce the topic marking particles and the subject marking particles in the Korean language. The topic marking particles and the subject marking particles play a very important role in Korean so it’s very important that you learn them well. But even some advanced-level speakers of the language can make mistakes regarding these particles, so please don’t worry even if you don’t get them right away. You will eventually be able to use them naturally after some practice. Today’s lesson is our first introduction to the particles. Make sure you read the PDF file as well. Thank you! Please feel free to ask any questions in the comment!
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Level 1 Lesson 9 / topic,subject marking particles / 은, 는, 이, 가










Discussion( leave a comment )
i love answering the questions in the work book and being correct. it really motivates me to want to learn more of this fun language!!!
So is this mean ‘eun/neun’ is only refer to that thing and ‘i/ga’ still have to compare to other thing?
Very confuse,so is this mean eun/neun is only refer to the thing and i/ga still need to compare to other?
very confuse but will try my best to understand it
Thanks for all your lessons. I really enjoy them!
But I have something about level 1 lesson 9 to clarify. In the PDF page 5:
“뭐가 좋아요? Here the word 가 [ga] emphasize what the subject of the verb “to be / 좋아요” is.”
I am confused, I thought 가 should emphasize the ” 뭐 ” ?
Thank you!
I am still confused about this ><, so does that mean its better off not using eun/neun? and is it wrong if we don't use i/ga?
Reccomendations: If you guys still don’t get it, just listen to the next lesson (isseoyo n eopsseoyo) cuz they’ll review it, and hopefully you could understand it more easier.
whaaa! this is probably the hardest lesson so far. since in my language we don’t really have this type of particles it’s kind of hard for me to completely understand when and how to use them. i’m still a bit confused about it but i will definitely come back to this later on.
thank you for these lessons :)
Hi, I’m a new learner. I’m a bit confused about topic and subject marking particles T_T … I’ve already listened to it rly carefully and read through the pdf file many times but still cannot get it. T_T I don’t know when to use eun/neun and when to use i/ga?
Kyeong-eun jinjja yeppeuda! :) This lesson was really confusing but I’m yet to go through the pdf. thoroughly. :)
First of all thank you for teaching us so well and free!
I’m not understood very well this lesson, it was more difficult because I only speak some English and sometimes I don’t understand many things, would be great if they could continue translating into Spanish classes, I’m sure there are many people who would be very useful
Thanks again (:
안녕하세요!
How do you say in korean?
Subject Particles. 제목 입자
Object Particles 개체 입자
Topic Particles. 주제 입자
I found this ones but i dont know if they are correct?
감사합니다! ^___^
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