…it’s called consonant assimilation and it makes it easier to pronounce the words.
that’s how my teacher at kyunghee explained it to me.
Like Cheongnyangni Station 청량리역
THE rieul assimilates to the Nieng to make the pronunciation easier, because otherwise the sentence would be choppy and scientifically/linguistically humans are programmed to make things as easy as possible when trying to pronounce things.
Plus, the korean language is slowly getting lazier with their grammer and pronunciation rules, especially with the reuse of loanwords (even though the gov’t has been trying to change this)
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I found a mistake in the sentence: “Your cookie is in the kitchen.” — 과일은 부억에 있어.
The word for kitchen is not 부억 but actually 부엌. You really shouldn’t use Google Translate. It always has errors when it translates from Korean-English or visa versa.^^
Admin Notes: That might actually be my mistake. Either way, thank you for the correction!
Just read through the “Grammar Point 에/에서” notes that you posted, and wanted to leave some comments for you.
영수는 학교에서 벌서 갔어요.
In this case, you would use “에” and not “에서“. Also, the word for already should be written as “벌써” . So, the correct sentence should look like this:
영수는 학교에 벌써 갔어요.
Lastly, 바다가에서 should be written as “바다갓에서”
-Cynthia
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