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Scared vs Scary
In English, the sentences "I am scared" and "I am scary" have almost opposite meanings. However, every translator I have seen translates them both the same way: "나는 무서워요"....
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How do you say 'Are you laughing?' in Korean + Verb Question
I'm a few weeks into learning Korean and I learned how to write statemnts and questions via (습니 까 & 습니다). We take verbs, drop the -다 and apply the correct formula. However, my textbook also showed ...
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What does …지군 하다 mean? When is it used?
What is ...지군 하다 ending used for?
For example, 이어지군 하는데 or 하였다.
자기 일터에 대한 많고많은 자랑을 하나둘 꼽아갈 때마다 종업원들의 이야기는 저도모르게 직장장에 대한 이야기로 이어지군 하였다.
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Do I use the 해라체 for personal notes?
I know that the 해라체 is used in diaries, books, newspapers and so forth, but is it also used for casual personal notes to myself? Like "water the flowers" or statements like "password is ...
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How is 뵙다 conjugated to 뵐게요?
뵐게요 means (I)'ll see (you), but I am struggling to see how to arrive in this form.
Applying the most general verb conjugation rule for 해요체 to 뵙다 (to humbly meet/see), I expect to get 뵙어요. But if we ...
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Do you add still use 네/당신 when using the conjugation 어때?
I am just a bit confused when using 어때, I have read in some blogs online that some of them no longer uses "your" or 네/당신 when using 어때.
Example:
Do I use 형은 어때 or 네 형은 어때? when I'm asking about my ...
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present tense of “deceive” in this sentence using “속았으며”
I'm taking this sentence and making it present tense, but the verb may be taking the passive form (피동사) here, so I'm unsure of the dictionary form since I don't know if it's passive.
Please don't ...
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Conjugation of 이시다
Could you please tell me if this is correct?
이다 --> 이시다
Present tense
야 / 이야 --> 셔 / 이셔
예요 / 이에요 --> 세요 / 이세요
인다 --> 이시다
입니다 --> 이십니다
Past tense
였어 --> 였셔
였어요 --> 였세요
였다 --> ...
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What is the difference between 네 and 네요 to express admiration?
I'm learning about the usage of 네 to the stem of the verb to express admiration, but I don't understand the difference between 네 and 네요.
What is the difference between them? Is 네요 more formal much ...
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What does 는 mean in 믿는다?
In the following sentence:
회사원이 연구를 믿는다.
I don't understand what 는 means here. At least I understand that the verb is 믿다 and the meaning is "The employee believes the research.".
But what does ...
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How to say “something is broken (in the past)”?
In Korean, to say "something is broken", you use the past form of the verb 고장나다.
텔레비전이 고장났어요.
But now I wonder how to say "something got broken", meaning the malfunction happened in the past. Is ...
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춤추다 conjugated to 춤을 춥니다 rather than 춤춥니다
The uninflected verb "to dance" is 춤추다, yet Duolingo has informed me that if I wish t say that "subject dances" (with a deferential ending) then the sentence will be "subject 춤을 춥니다"
Why is this ...
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Is “춥다” an irregular adjective?
I’m learning to conjugate into past tense in formal language (합쇼체). From what I’ve learned, if a stem ends in a consonant, you add “았습니다” or “있습니다” after it depending on the vowel before.
However, I’...
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What do the different forms of 있다 mean?
있다 means:
to be
to lie
to take place
In the text book I only learnt 있어요
While watching K-dramas, I saw SOOOO many forms that I've no idea what they mean:
있어: Is this because the 요 is dropped?
있는, ...
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Difference between 보고싶어 and 보고싶다
I know this question gets asked a lot but, I've yet to find an answer which really gives me an explanation. My understanding of korean grammar is a bit basic but here's what I know:
보고싶다 = Dictionary ...
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How to understand the -하다고 suffix?
I found myself completely unable to explain the -하다고 suffix to someone. For example,
행복하다고 느낍니까?
which means, "Do you feel that you're happy?"
Actually, no, there's a nuance there. I think ...
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What's the usage of 야 between a verb and past perfect marker “했었던”?
There is a Korean song that i get addicted to it these day, so i said way not try to get what it says, so i started to analyse it, and i had to say Korean is truly a hard one.
well here is where i ...
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How do i conjugate 공부하다?
I am learning Korean and am practicing verb conjugation.
I decided to write "I study a book".
Following the conjugation for "하다" verbs, i wrote:
나는 책을 공부해.
But when i checked a translation ...
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Future tense quoted sentences
The two different websites I have visited have introduced different versions of quoting future tense sentences. Here's my example sentence using the two versions:
곧 도착할거라고 했습니다 = He said he'll be ...
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알다 (to know) and its Many Forms and Usages
I would like to get to the bottom of something that's been bugging me for years: How Koreans think about 알다 and its conjugation when responding to someone telling them something.
Ex.)
Manager: 이 ...
