kor.evanchen.cc¶

These are notes I wrote to myself when trying to learn Korean grammar. I think it's more of a hey-look-at-some-cool-linguistics blog. It should not be used as an actual textbook.

Table of contents¶

• This chapter has some meta-comments (like a sales pitch for Korean grammar as a whole).

• First Principles covers the bare minimum necessary to form sentences such as "I saw a cat", "I am a cat", or "the cat is cute".

• Verb Basics covers the most common things you can do with a verb. This includes negation, passive voice, tense, and a tiny bit of joining two verbs together ("I eat and sleep").

• The remaining four chapters can be read in any order, roughly sorted by how much I use them.

  • Postpositions are particles you can add to nouns (and later noun phrases), such as plural particles, possessive particles, and words like "to", "from", "at", etc.
  • Modifiers let you make sentences like "I pet the cute cat", "crying babies are annoying", and more complex subclauses like "the girl I met is smart".
  • Joining is about joining two sentences together, such as in "I think, therefore I am".
  • Endings lets you put finishing touches on the final verb in a sentence, so you can turn a declaration into a question, an imperative, a suggestion, etc.