N.B.: You don't need to have learnt the Korean writing system to understand this page. All the korean examples are given precisely as examples with the accurate translations.

Korean is a SOV (Subject-Object-Verb) language, unlike English and most other European languages, which are SVO (Subject-Verb-Object) languages. What does that mean exactly?

Let’s take a very classic example, the following sentence:
The cat eats the mouse.
Here, "The cat" is the subject, ""eats" is the verb and ""the mouse" is the object.

In Korean this sentence will be:

(s.p.: subject particle; o.p.: object particle)

The originality of Korean comes from the presence of particles, which we study in detail in our lessons. They determine the subject and the object relative to the verb, thus providing a much greater freedom in grammar.

For example, the subject may be omitted.

This can lead to confusion when determining the subject. The solution is to rely on the context: