Expressing possessive relations
Possession requires two things. The possessor and the possessed. There are two ways to express this.

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Use of 있다/없다 to express possession
있다 refers to the existence of or the possession of an object or person.

Non-honorific: 있어요 - to have, to exist
Honorific: 계세요 - to exist, 있으세요 - to have
부모님은 하와이에 계세요. - My parents are in Hawaii
선생님, 시간이 있으세요? - Do you have a minute, professor?

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There are 19 consonants in Korean. The characters were designed to resemble the shape of the speech organs when the sound is made. The first five letters (ㅁㄴㅅㄱㅇ) are the base of all the other letters and are the five physical shapes ( Read more... )

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Korean vowels are combinations of three strokes. They were originally modeled after the cosmological philosophy of heaven (a dot which has evolved into a short dash), earth (ㅡ), and man (ㅣ).

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The conjunction 그리고

그리고 is a conjunction that means and. It is used at the start of a sentence to connect it to the previous one.

Examples
뉴욕 대학은 거요. 그리고 학생이 많아요.
학교 식당은 싸요. 그리고 커피가 맛있어요.

The discourse particle 은/는 (changing the topic.)

Since the 은/는 particle is used to mark the a topic, this principle is extended to shifting the topic from one thing to another. Discourse particles such as 은/는 or 도 can also be added after another particle such as 에. However, it cannot be added after the subject particle 이/가.

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Reference to the location of an object requires...
1) a location.
2) a locative particle (에)
3) a verb of existence (있어요)
When referring to the location of an object the locative particle 에 and the existential verb 있다/있어요 is used. Not ~이다/이에요.

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Subject Particles 이/가
The particle 이/가 indicates the attached word is the subject of the sentence, ie. what the predicate is about.

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