Japanese & Korean “5 essential verbs” part 1

こんにちは ＆　안녕하세요!

Hello everyone!

Greeting from Japan!


The topic you are learning today is “Japanese & Korean 5 essential verbs” which expand your conversation and also make you travel easier.


This is very important for the languages learner, so at first I will teach you only 5 verbs here, and this lesson lasts part1 to part…more and more.



However, keep in mind.
You should use what you learn many times and then you can master it.

So please not to work with this blog and hope you do your further study.



Let’s move on to the main topic!

Japanese and Korean 5 essential verbs

する / 하다

Here is one of the most useful verbs that you must remember as long as you study Japanese and Korean.

It is “Do”.

Let’s look at Dictionary form of “Do” in Japanese and Korean.



する(su-lu)

하다(ha-da)



The first important thing is that,
in Japanese and Korean, verbs are normally put at the end of sentences.
And, the form of verbs don’t change by pronoun (first-, second- and third-person, singular or plural, and gender).



There are of cource past tense or future tense, passive…etc in Japanese and Korean too, but here I will tell you the normal present tense of verbs with some Examples.



In Japanese “Do” is “する(sulu)” and in Korean it is “하다 (hada)”.
But those are dictionary form, and you need to change it to a different form depending on sentences.

Let’s look at some examples.




~Japanese~
わたしはにほんごをべんきょうします。(watashiwa-nihongoo-benkyou-shimasu)
わたしはスキーをします。(watashiwa-sukiio-shimasu)

~Korean~
나는 일본어를 공부해요. (nanun-ilubonolul-gongbu-heyo)
나는 스키를해요. (nanun-sukilulu-heyo)





As you see, “する” changes to “します” and “하다” changes to “해요” for the sentences.
You can make many verbs’ simple form by using this rule.

For instance,



○○する→○○します
べんきょうをする→べんきょうします
スキーをする→スキーをします
ゲームをする→ゲームをします


○○하다→○○해요
공부를하다→공부해요
스키를하다→스를해요
게임를하다→게임를해요


べんきょう / 공부 = a study
スキー / 스키 = skiing
ゲーム / 게임 = game
を / 를 = Japanese / Korean particle comes always after the direct object in a sentence

You can put nouns to make more verbs like those examples.


Plus, します / 해요 is used in a formal situation, so it is very useful not to be rude at the first time!



This is very important verbs most of times when you read / write/ speak/ listen.


Let’s move to next verb!

たべる / 먹다

Next verb is “to eat”.

Let’s look at the dictionary form of them.




たべる（ta-be-lu）

먹다 (mok-da)





You usually need to change them into an other form when you use it.

Let’s look at how to change and use it with some examples.




たべる→たべます
にくをたべる→にくをたべます
ごはんをたべる→ごはんをたべます


먹다→먹어요
고기를 먹다→고기를 먹어요
밥을 먹다→밥을 먹어요


にく / 고기 = meat
ごはん / 밥 = rice / meal




As you see the examples, you also put the object right before たべます / 먹어요.


As you might know, Japanese and Korean verb comes right after object, so you need to get used to this order.


Therefore, make some sentences and try to be used to it!

みる / 보다

Let’s learn a bit more.

Next verb is “to watch”, “to see” or “to look”




みる (mi-lu)

보다 (bo-da)




Those are dictionary form so let’s look at the simple form with some Eamples.




○○をみる→○○をみます
テレビをみる→テレビをみます
サッカーをみる→サッカーをみます
そとをみる→そとをみます


○○를 보다→○○를 봐요
티비를 보다→티비를 봐요
축구를 보다→축구를 봐요
밖을 보다→밖을 봐요

テレビ / 티비 = TV
サッカー / 축구 = soccer
そと / 밖 = outside



It might be easier to know how to use them if you remember not only “みます / 봐요” but also the sentences.

Also, I suggest you to write some dialy in Japanese and Korean even if it is short.
It makes your progression very fast.

きく / 듣다

You like music?

Next one is “to listen”.



きく (ki-ku)

듣다 (dud-da)



Let’s look at the example sentences to know how to use and change to simple form.




○○をきく→○○をききます
おんがくをきく→おんがくをききます
はなしをきく→はなしをききます


○○를 듣다→○○를 들어요
음악을 듣다→음악을 들어요
이야기를 듣다→이야기를 들어요


おんがく / 음악 = music
はなし / 이야기 = story



Next verb is the last session of today, so let’s do a bit more!

ねる / 자다

The last verb that I teach you today is “to sleep”.

Let’s see in Japanese and Korean.



ねる (ne-lu)

자다 (ja-da)



When you want to sleep and tell your friend on chat or face to face, you can say just



もうねます。 (mou-nemasu)

이제자요. (ije-jayo)



もう / 이제 means “It’s about time to~”, so when you say “It’s about time to sleep”or “I will sleep now.”, you can just say もうねます。 (mou-nemasu) / 이제자요. (ije-jayo).


When you go to bed while chatting with people from Japanese or Korean, please try to use it!

Summary

How was today’s lesson?

I hope you learned something new here.

I taught some essential verbs, but its form is very changeable depending on a sentence or situation, who you are talking with.

Japanese and Korean are quite difficult languages, but you can make some communications even with some useful vocabularies.

Having fun while learning is very important, so please don’t push yourself too hard and have fun learning a new language!



Thank you for coming to my blog.

I will see you in the next lesson!:)

Bye!

おつかれ & 안녕~!!