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If there existed an eighth Snow White's dwarf gone missing, and he worked as a programmer, what would he be called like?
I've been discussing this topic with a friend of mine. Most of them in my native language (Italian) end with olo, for instance Sleepy becomes Pisolo, Grumpy becomes Brontolo and so on, kind of like ...
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Is 그래 a contracted form of 그렇다?
I came across occurrences of 그래 and 그렇 while reading a French Assimil-collection textbook (whose approach is progressive assimilation, rather than thorough grammatical explanations from the very ...
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What does 부르노니 mean?
So I started watching 백설 공주와 일곱 난쟁이 and the Evil Queen says to the magic mirror:
캄캄한 어둠과 바람 속에서 내 너를 부르노니 나와 대답하여라.
I'm trying to figure out exactly what is happening with '부르노니'. I understand that ...
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Meaning of Korean phrases structure suffixes
Do korean structure suffixes have any meaning alone or they only have meaning when used with verbs, adjectives, etc?
For example V+곤 하다. Does "곤 하다" have any meaning alone as an expression? ...
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오늘따라 - what is 따라 derived from?
As I understand 오늘따라 means roughly "especially today", but it's hard to find the source of 따라. I assumed it was a suffix derived from 따르다 (to follow), but I can't see how "especially&...
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Three instances of the 은 particle in a row
I'm having a hard time trying to guess the meaning of the third 은 in this sentence:
남산은 놉은 산은 아니지만 참 아름답습니다.
I know that this sentence means "Namsan is not a tall mountain, but it's really ...
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Valid usage of -"십니다"?
I came across this sentence in a textbook.
김선생님은 차 타고 서울로 가십니다. Meaning "Mr. Kim goes to Seoul by car".
My doubt concerns the suffix -shimnida. Previously I came across the interrogative -...
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Usage of -이자 and -인 as suffix for nouns
I am using Google Translate to say the following sentence in Korean:
Hello! I am Brian, a 2nd year computer science college student and a newcomer to Seoul.
And this sentence came out:
안녕하세요! ...
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What does 줬는데요 mean?
What does 줬는데요 mean?
What's the root word for 줬는데요?
For example in this sentence from the vlive video
유니콘 인형도 있어요. 제가 이름도 붙여줬는데요.
I have a unicorn doll. I gave a name to it.
이름도 붙여줬는데요 here means ...
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How should 미남이시라구요 be split?
The root word in 미남이시라구요 is 미남 (Noun) to mean a handsome man and the full translation for the sentence "changes the noun to adjective" to mean you're handsome or is it just a short form of the ...
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When must I / may I use the plural -들 on nouns / pronouns?
Unlike English, the plural suffix -들 is not always used even when the word indicates more than one of something:
포도 먹자! (Not "let's eat a grape" but "let's eat some grapes!"
In general, it seems ...
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Usage of the plural -들 on adverbs and verbs
I've noticed that the plural form -들 is sometimes used in surprising places, i.e. following adverbs and verbs. For example:
어서들 와! (Come quickly [to more than one person])
잘들 했다. (Everyone did ...
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