chingureul mannal ttae sajineul jjigeoyo.

object particle

Breakdown of chingureul mannal ttae sajineul jjigeoyo.

• 친구: friend
• 만나다: to meet
• 사진: picture

Questions & Answers about chingureul mannal ttae sajineul jjigeoyo.

What does the grammatical ending ~을 때 mean, and why is 만날 때 used here?

~을 때 (or ~ㄹ 때) means “when (doing) …” or “at the time of ….” You attach it to a verb stem to form a time clause.

• If the stem ends in a vowel, add ㄹ 때.
• If it ends in a consonant, add 을 때.
  For 만나다 (“to meet”), drop -다, you get 만나, then add ㄹ 때 → 만날 때 = “when (I) meet …”

Why is it 만날 때 (present/future form) and not 만났을 때 (past form), since meeting happens before taking the photo?

Using 만날 때 expresses either a habitual action or two things happening simultaneously: “I take pictures when I meet a friend.” If you want to stress that the meeting was completed first and the photo-taking happened afterward, you could say 만났을 때 사진을 찍었어요 (“When I had met [them], I took pictures”).

Why is 친구 followed by 를 in 친구를 만날 때 instead of the subject particle 가?

The verb 만나다 is transitive—it needs a direct object (who/what you meet). 친구 is that object, so it takes the object particle 를. Using 친구가 would mark “friend” as the subject, which doesn’t fit here.

Who is the subject of the sentence if no subject is written?