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July 18, Surprise
I have been waiting my whole life to learn this verb tense. An entire tense to express surprise. Also useful for insulting people (wow, you used to be handsome). Korean grammar is incredibly different from English: verbs come last and pronouns are a luxury. Adjectives are actually verbs and the equivalent of “to have” doesn’t have a direct object in Korean, just a main and sub subject. There are two counting systems that are not interchangeable but used together. Every number of items requires its own counter word (3 bottles of beer, 2 glasses of water, 5 animal-counter of animals, 4 persons of people, 1 line of sushi, 10 sheets…