Korean Verb with Consonant Base..

Sometimes its confusing when you tried to look for a certain word in the Korean dictionary to find the meaning because the word in the dictionary isn’t exactly the same with what you’re looking for. I for one had troubles understanding why most of the words are a bit different in dictionary compare to the ones I’ve used in sentences. (the spelling was different).

For example.

앉아  means ‘sleep’ when used in a sentence. (sentence form/infinitive form is ‘앉아’).

But when you try to find the word in the dictionary, you find ‘앉다’ instead of ’앉아’.

Another example.

입어(infinitive form) means ‘wears/put on’. In dictionary form  its ‘입다’.

This is because Korean dictionary list verbs in a special ‘dictionary form’ or citation form with one shape ending  ‘–다’.

So, what does this have to do with the entry title? ‘Korean Verb with Consonant Base’????

Well it is crucial to have the clear understanding of whether the Korean verb that you’re looking in the dictionary is a consonant base or a vowel base in order to change it from dictionary form into infinitive form and use it in a sentence later on.

We’re just going to look into Verb with consonant Base first.. I’ll explain the Vowel base in our next entry.

So lets begin!!

First you have to know.

-          Consonant-base verb is Korean verb with a ‘consonant’ (ㅂ,ㅈ,ㄷ,ㄱ,ㅅ,ㄴ,ㅁ etc.) ending.

-          Consonant-base verb typically have infinitive ending ‘-어’.

-        However if the last vowel of the consonant base is ‘오’ or ‘아’ then the infinitive ending is ‘-아’ instead of ‘-어’.

Confusing? Well, of course! Let’s look at the examples.

Hope that is clear. Well, next time well look at vowel base infinitives. Its more confusing than this one : ). Have fun with Hangul!!!

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Double Vowels..

안녕하세요 여러분!![annyeoghaseyo yeoreobun]... or in english that would be 'Hi everyone!!'.. When you are a k-drama or kpop addict like me, I'm sure you would know that phrase by now..

In my first entry in this blog I wrote about hangul letters or characters.. well, I mention the basci characters but I forgot to mention about DOUBLE VOWEL..yupp..Sorry guys.. I planned to write about it in the 2nd but I forgot..

Well anyway Whats Double Vowel??

You probably have stumble upon it and you dont know it.. if you've been following this blog.. Double vowels are combination of two vowels..

Well here are your double vowels...

ㅐ - ae
ㅒ - yae
ㅘ - wa
ㅖ - ye
ㅙ - wae
ㅚ - oe = as in when
ㅝ - wo = as in wash
ㅞ - we = as in way
ㅟ - wi = as in wheat
ㅢ - ui

Now you're probably wondering.. how do I type those characters when my keyboard looks like this...
Well that what I thought when I 1st came across these characters.. in this case you have to use the 'shift' key.. like to type ㅒ just hit the 'shift' + 'ㅐ' key...

and to type ㅘ just hit 'ㅗ' + 'ㅏ'... got it?.. i'm sure you do..

How to type hangul characters on PC

안녕하세요 .. if you have read my previous entry, you probably could read the word.. its hangul for, hi, hello, good morning, good evening etc.. greetings in general.. "annyeonghaseyo"..

it has been awhile since I last update this blog. its not like I'm busy or anything, its just that I've been LAZY..haha..too lazy to write anything.. I've too many things to tell about, to write about but its just that i'm too lazy to type it huhu...


Everytime i have these many ideas to write about, i kept on delaying it...keep on delaying the typing work hoho...

Well, cant keep delaying things from now on..or else I'll forget all these ideas i have to share with u guys...

Well, since I've been learning hangul.. I've installed hangul characters in my laptop so that I could also write in hangul.. so today I'd like to share with u guys on how to install these characters in ur PC so that u also can learn along with me how to write in hangul..hoho

Since My laptop is using Win7 OS, I'll only show how to install it in win7.. its pretty much the same with other win OS except for XP where you have to download Microsoft IME (i think).. you can get Microsoft IME from Windows website for free..

Just follow the instructions below....

1. Go to ur Control Panel..

2. Click on the 'Change keyboards or other input methods' ...

3. On the 'Keyboards & language tab' click on 'Change keyboards' button....

4. On the 'Installed service' section... click on the 'Add..' button and add the language that you want to add.... And after you finish.. click the 'apply' button...

5. Before you can start typing in using the language characters that u've installed, 1st you need to the language option on the right-bottom side of ur screen.. make sure you change it.. in my case I've to change it to Korean..but if u've installed japanese characters, then change it to japanese...sure you got that rite..

6. next you click on the button next to 'KO' (korean).. there are 2 options in that button: Microsoft IME and Keyboards.. you need to Microsoft IME...

7.Then click the button next to the previous button and change it to 'Hangul' characters...

Then Viola.... you can start typing in hangul like crazy....

Here's something that will help you out.. for typing in Hangul...

1st post... Introduction to Hangul characters..

A few days ago after writing an entry on my personal blog, I saw this picture as I was surfing Icanhascheezburger.com. And then I started to laugh as I was imagining this three cats just staring at me saying things like,

"Hey you, yeah YOU!!.. you should use some color fonts when typing an entry"..

"Yeah, your entry font just as boring as us three"..

"tho atleast the three of us are cute eh?"...

LOL

So from now on, I'll try my best to make full use of those color tabs above in the editing menu..hoho

Well, anyway like I said in my personal (other) blog.. I've been learning Hangul!!

What is Hangul, you may ask... Hangul is is the native alphabet of the Korean language, as distinguished from the logographic Sino-Korean hanja system. It was created in the mid-fifteenth century, and is now the official script of ...bla bla bla...[read the rest on wiki... ILuvWikipedia]... Basically Hangul is the alphabet of Korean language...

Okay, why I'm learning hangul all of a sudden??.. am I going somewhere??South Korea?? Busan?? Jeju Island?? Lotte World???... the answer is no, no, no.. I'm not going anywhere.. I'm not going to Korea anytime soon.. [but planning to of course hehe].. I'm learning just bcoz I'm curious.. Sometimes curiosity can lead you to many new things in life..

And since I love korean drama & movie so much.. I'd like to watch all k-dramas/movie without even bother to read the subtitle 1st.. just fully concertrate on the dramas & the actions..and also I'm starting to enjoy korean music even more now.. even my phone sms tone is Big bang's Farewell.... hoho.. Remind me to change that later to SNSD's Echo echo echo.... ^_^

So to keep an on-line track of what I learn,I'll put up on this blog on what I've learn so far. Lets together learn 한글 (Hangul)!!. Maybe in the future I will be listing all these refence books and do some sort of a review. But for now I'll just remind myself to remember this basic things...

We'll start with the alphabets....

I've tried remembering each character's style of writing and its sound. the sound is in between "\ \".. its not that hard really to remember those characters. if you've notice for the vowels there are simple and iotized vowels. What is iotized??

well, lets just put it this way..

ㅏ a is a simple vowel whileㅑ ya is its iotated vowels...
ㅓ eo is a simple vowel while ㅕ yeo is its iotated vowel..and etc

Got it? you just add a little stroke to the character and a 'y' sound for the iotated vowels from the simple vowels...

Below pics shows the correct way of writting each characters..its like chinese characters you know, you have a certain way of writing it.. there are other characters besides the vowels and the consonants but I'll just show these first..

"u" or "oo"

"ng" [

the ng sound in doing]

"s"

"r" or "l" [the r sound in road
the l sound in love, girl]

"p' or f" [ the p sound in pop]


"o"


"n"


"m"


"g' or k' "



"eu"



"h"



"g or k"





"eo"



"d or t"

" d' "

"chi"

"b or p"

"ch or j"

Vowels in the korean languages may be attached to the left, right or beneath each other in order to form a word, the following are examples of their use : -

가 = ka 거 = keo 겨 = kyeo
갸 = kya 기 = ki 고 = ko
바 = pa 버 = peo 부 = pu
뵤 = pyo 지 = chi 저 = cheo
즈 = chu 조 = cho 마 = ma
머 = meo 무 = mo 나 = na
너 = neo 이 = i 야 = ya
디 = ti 고 = ko 댜 = tya
요 = yo 오 = o 도 = to
드 = tu 두 = too 그 = ku

When constructing a word, you must add a mixture of consonants and vowels, beginning with the consonant at the beginning of the word. In some cases, there is no need to use a consonant at the beginning in which case ㅇ (null character) is used. eg 이 = i 야 = ya.

A syllable that consists of a consonant and a "vertical vowel" is written with the consonant on the left and the vowel on the right
ㄴ + ㅏ = 나
n + a = na

A syllable that consists of a consonant and a "horizontal vowel" is written with the consonant on top and the vowel underneath:
ㅁ + ㅗ = 모
m + o = mo

If a syllable has a consonant, vowel, and consonant, the final consonant, called patch'im (meaning "supporting floor" in Korean) goes to the bottom -- or floor -- of that syllable.
ㅁ + ㅏ + ㄴ = 만
m + a + n = man

Okay lets try build a word from those characters....

han guel sarang..simply means I love hangul.. : )

Lets build something more interesting!!!

Sooyoung & Yuri... the two trickster in So Nyuh Shi Dae (SNSD)...Luv how both of them always teams up to trick Tiffany on Hangul..

수 + 영 = 수 영
Soo + Yeong = Soo Young

유 + 리= 유 리
Yu + Ri = YuRi

hehe okay maybe that was not as interesting to some..but at least it was interesting to me as a SNSD fan lol.

Okay people...to conclude today learning hangul session..let enjoy the show... how Sooyoung & Yuri trick Tiffany... ;) enjoi