와, 과

Korean

Particle

1. and
   • 책과 연필 - pencil and book
2. with
   • 우유와 딸기 - milk and strawberries
   • 고족과 가티 가세요? - Are you going with your family? Note that you is omitted. This is like the English expression, "Do you want to come with?" (meaning with me or with us)

The grammatical markers 와 and 과 are postpositions which indicate a connection between nouns.

If the modified word ends in a consonant, append 과, but if it ends in a vowel, append 와. This looks like a complete violation of the CVCV rule, unless one thinks of 와 as wa.

ends with	append	example
consonant	과	책 + 과 = 책과
vowel	와	우유 + 와 = 우유와