NOUNS
명사 (名詞) Myeongsa, "nouns," do not have grammatical gender and though they can be made plural by adding the suffix 들 (deul) to the end of the word, in general the suffix is not used when the plurality of the noun is clear from context.
For example:
The English sentence "there are three apples"
becomes = 사과가 세 개 있습니다 ( sagwaga se gae isssumnida)
which translates to: apple three(things) exist
Instead of using the plural marker for "apples", the Korean sentence keeps the word 사과 (sagwa) "apple" in its unmarked form because the number of apples is already clear, hence making the subject plural is already redundant.
PREDICATES
It normally refers to the part that explains or says something about the subject. In the sentence "Ed closed the door" the predicate is "closed the door".
STEMS
Korean verbs and adjectives are made of stems and endings. The stems of verbs and adjectives do not stand alone, and they are always conjugated by various or inflectional endings. These endings carry various grammatical information and roles such as tense, aspect, speech levels, and so forth.
When you look for the meaning of certain verbs and/or adjectives in your dictionary or textbook word lists, you are most likely to encounter verbs and adjectives with "다 (da)" as their endings such as 예쁘다 (yeppeuda), "to be pretty" or 읽다 (dokso) means "to read."
In Korean, verbs and adjectives resemble one another in how they inflect and how they function in the sentence. However, verbs normally signify actions and processes. On the other hand, adjectives typically indicate states or qualities such as size, weight, quality, quantity, shape, appearance, perception, and emotion.
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