일 삼월이에요… Yup its 1st day of the month of March and how time flies. I am at lesson 19 of my Continuing Korean book. It’s very fulfilling to read on this book as it clears so many questions i used to have in mind.
For the past days I have been reading about modifiers. As you know, sentences are made complex by clauses joined together. So this lesson is important in expressing longer sentences in Korean.
When I just started, I have always been reminded of the order of words in a Korean sentence. Well unlike English which is rather not so particular in the order though usually follows subject-verb-object pattern, in Korean the verb is always at the end. Reading this lesson makes me realized who different the order of the word is as in the comparison below:
|
English Order |
Korean Order |
| Red flowersFlowers that are red | Red flowers |
| A nice, large bed
A bed that is nice and large |
Large-and-nice bed |
| The pasta I am eating | I-am-eating-it pasta |
| The lady who is eating pasta | Is-eating-pasta lady |
Now this solves the mystery of a usually weird on-line translation application. With sentence order totally different from English and even on the order of words in a modifier clause, its but noraml to get an abnormal on-line translation.
It Started with Hangul 
Hey Jane (^-^)/
일 삼월이예요 -> 삼월 일일이에요.
– March(삼월) 1(일) day(일) i e yo
Today is a national holliday in Korea. It is the anniversary of the Independence Movement of March lst, 1919.
More infos r here http://www.lifeinkorea.com/calendar/holidays.cfm
wow, their construction is kinda hard. ~