You can already build sentences. Now you meet the part of Korean that no textbook translation survives: the little words that get attached to nouns.
Many languages mark who does what with word order, or with prepositions and endings. Korean puts a small word after the noun — a particle — so the order can move and the meaning stays.
| Korean | Sound | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 개가 사람을 물었어요 | gaega sarameul mureosseoyo | The dog bit the man |
| 사람을 개가 물었어요 | sarameul gaega mureosseoyo | The dog bit the man |