keannu
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- Dec 27, 2010
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- Student or Learner
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- Korean
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- South Korea
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- South Korea
These all make sense,
A chair is soft/The chair is soft/Chairs are soft
But why doesn't "Chair is soft" make sense?
For Koreans, Japanese, Chinese who use nouns without indefinite articles, this is a really challenging issue. They can't understand why article-less nouns don't make sense while they use them all the time.
I once asked an American about this and he said "It's because it sounds like a barbarians' language", and my temporary conclusion is it sounds like a concept not an actual thing, but Koreans/Japanese/Chinese say article-less nouns without considering concept or an actual thing.
I need your comprehensible explanation. Thank you in advance.
A chair is soft/The chair is soft/Chairs are soft
But why doesn't "Chair is soft" make sense?
For Koreans, Japanese, Chinese who use nouns without indefinite articles, this is a really challenging issue. They can't understand why article-less nouns don't make sense while they use them all the time.
I once asked an American about this and he said "It's because it sounds like a barbarians' language", and my temporary conclusion is it sounds like a concept not an actual thing, but Koreans/Japanese/Chinese say article-less nouns without considering concept or an actual thing.
I need your comprehensible explanation. Thank you in advance.