The document analyzes a conversation between Chanho and Joseph in Korean. It provides translations and explanations of common Korean greetings like "Annyeonghashimnikka" meaning "Are you at peace?" and responses like "Ye" meaning "Yes". It also analyzes the basic structure of a Korean sentence using the example "Jeoneun jibe gabnida" meaning "I go home" and explains the roles of subjects, topics, locations and verb conjugations.
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Analysis
1. Analysis
The conversation began with 찬호 asking this:
찬호: 안녕하십니까, 조세프 씨?
Here, we learn our first bit of Korean.
"안녕하십니까?" is a common formal greeting
in Korean. It literally means "Are you at peace?".
"씨" is a title which means "Mr".
2. 조세프: 예. 안녕하십니까, 찬호 씨?
"예" means "yes".
Typically, the response to "안녕하십니까?" is
"예", but it is not necessary to respond that way.
찬호: 만나서 반갑습니다.
"만나서 반갑습니다" means "Nice to meet
you." This can also be shortened to
"반갑습니다„
"만나서" means "because we've met".
3. 조세프: 저도요. 저는 집에 갑니다.
Here, we learn some important things about
making a Korean sentence. "저" means "I," and
"저도요" means "Me too". Then Joseph says:
"저는 집에 갑니다." This means "I go home."
찬호: 예.안녕히 가십시오.
조세프: 안녕히 계십시오.
Both say goodbye to each other, but in Korean
you differentiate between who is staying and
who is leaving.
4. Sentence Analysis:
저 는 집 에 갑니다
I (topic) house (location) go
As mentioned above, 저 means "I". In Korean,
"는" marks the primary topic of a sentence.
Joseph is talking primarily about himself, so he
says "저는".
So, if Joseph wanted to talk primarily about his
house (집) instead of himself, he would say
"집은".
5. "에" is in a similar class of elements (called
"particles"), but it marks the location, such as
"to school (학교에), to the bathroom
(화장실에)," and so forth.
Finally, we see the verb, "갑니다." Now, if you
were to look up "go" in a Korean dictionary, it
would probably say "가다." This is the verb's
unconjugated dictionary or "base" form. "가" is
the actual root of the verb.
The standard, polite statement conjugation in
Korean is {rooz + ㅂ/습니다}