English has 8 parts of speech. Korean has 9. Learning parts of speech is crucial to becoming fluent in Korean. So, Today I’m going to introduce you to all nine parts of speech.
1. Noun 명사 [Myeong-sa]
2. Pronoun 대명사 [Dae-myeong-sa]
3. Numeral, quantity indicator 수사 [su-sa]
4. Verb 동사 [dong-sa]
5. Adjective 형용사 [hyeong-yong-sa]
Adjectives shows the quality or state of something.
6. Determiner, pre-noun 관형사 [gwan-hyeong-sa]
Determiners are a word used in front of a substantive(nouns, pronouns, and numerals) and modifies it. Compared to other Korean parts of speech, there are only a few determiners.
7. Adverb 부사 [Bu-sa]
While Determiners modify only Substantives*(체언 [cheeon]. nouns, pronouns, and numerals) Adverbs modify everything. They mostly modify verbs and adjectives, but they can modify determiners, adverbs, and even sentences.
8.★Post positional particle 조사 [Jo-sa]
*What’s a Post positional article?: Post positional particles are attached behind a noun, pronoun, numeral, and adverbs… They usually stick together with words that are independent. They indicate grammatical relationships or make it more specific in meaning. (particles each have different jobs) Some particles make the word it stuck to a subject (Like -은/는 or 이/가) Or some particles make the word an object (Like 을/를) There are so many particles! It’s very confusing and hard, so study extra hard on Post positional particles.
9.Exclamation, interjection 감탄사 [gam-tan-sa]
These are all nine parts of speech in Korean! To advance to harder grammar, you MUST remember all these nine parts of speech.
I will explain in detail about each part in later grammar lessons! I hope this lesson was helpful
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Each conversation in my textbook has a section of “new words” that are divided by parts of speech. Now I can write the parts of speech in Korean!
