Korean:Adjectives

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As Korean adjectives (형용사, 形容詞) conjugate similarly to verbs, some English texts call them "descriptive verbs" or "stative verbs", but they are distinctly separate from verbs (동사).

English does not have an identical grammatical category, so the English translation of Korean adjectives may misleadingly suggest that they are verbs.

Making The Distinction Between Verb And Adjective

An adjective is a word that describes something. Words such as 'to be cold' 'to be clean', and 'to be busy' are all adjectives, because they describe something. Adjectives usually begin with 'to be' in English.

Other words, such as 'to run', 'to swim', and 'to write', are all true verbs. They are actions.

Yet, they both take the same 아요 / 어요 / 해요 endings. We use them almost exactly alike.

How to move an adjective before the noun

To do this you need to drop the 다 from the dictionary form and add 은/는 to it. Let's take the adjective 좋다(good) for example.


Examples:

사진. joheun sajin. Good photo.


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