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Irregular “ㄹ” verb

April 25th, 2007

Irregular “ㄹ” verb

The advantage of this one is that the “ㄹ” just drops off. The disadvantage is that it’s tough to know when to keep it, and when to drop it. For irregular “ㄹ” verbs, the “ㄹ” drops when it come[s] before ㄴ, ㅂ, and ㅅ. Here is some practice for you:

No change before vowels:

어디 살아요?

But when you put it before ㄴ, like V는데, then there goes that ㄹ:

신촌에 사는데, 너무 시끄러워요. [I’m living in Sinchon, it’s very noisy.]

Same when it comes before a ㅅ, like when you add polite ending V(으) 세요:

혼자 사세요? [Do you live alone?]

Revere, Stephen 2005. Survival Korean, 224

http://www.learnkoreanlanguage.com/Irregular-Verbs.html

http://www.learnkoreanlanguage.com/Korean-Verbs.html

https://www.student.math.uwaterloo.ca/~awhyi/structures.htm

General Notes

·Adverbs do not conjugate… ever
·Verbs do not conjugate between pl and sing
·Time modifier go first
·-에는 ==> the place is the topic 도서관에는 책이 많습니다 (There are many books in the library)
·Verbs are either action or descriptive (copula)
·Copula verbs in positive do not necessarily require a subj marker
·When someone says 오십시오 (come), you say 예, 갑니다 (yes, i am going)
·시간이 있습니까? NOTE: this takes subj mark, not obj like usual
·셔 => [시요]
·오늘/어제/내일 take (으)ㄴ, not 에 as particle
·것이에요 => 거에요
·기분이 좋아요 => feeling is good, do NOT use행복
·A는 B와 같다 => A = B

Irregular verbs:

·ㅂ-irregular: 어렵다, 쉽다, 덥다, 춥다, 가깝다, 고맙다 cf. 좁다

·ㄷ-irregular: 묻다 ‘to ask’, 걷다, 듣다, cf. 받다, 묻다 ‘to bury’

·ㄹ-irregular: 멀다, 길다, 알다, 살다, 놀다

·으-irregular: 예쁘다, 크다, 바쁘다, 나쁘다

http://www.indiana.edu/~korean/K102/G7_8gr.html

한국 노래를 많이 아세요? Do you know a lot of Korean songs?
네, 좀 알아요. Yes, I know some.

부모님은 어디 사세요? Where do your parents live?
서울에 사세요. They live in Seoul.

집이 여기서 멉니까? Is your house far from here?
네, 좀 멀어요. Yes, it is a little far.

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