Learning Korean through conversation: Basic question
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Learning Korean through conversation: Basic question
์๋ ํ์ธ์! Hello, this is Hoorimi from BDB KOREAN. In this blog you will learn how to ask basic questions using new vocabulary and grammar. Let's start!
1. DIALOGUE
Conversation 1
๊ฐ: ์๋
ํ์ธ์.ย ์ ์ด๋ฆ์ ์ง์์์. ์ด๋ฆ์ด ๋ญ์์?ย
= Hello. My name is Jisoo. What is your name?
๋: ๋ฐ๊ฐ์์! ์ ๋ ๋๋ฉ๋์นด์์.ย
= Nice to meet you. I am Domenica.
๊ฐ: ํน์ ๋ช ์ด์ด์์?
= How old are you?
๋: ์ ๋ย 25์ด์ด์์. ์ง์์จ๋์?
= I am 25. And you?
๊ฐ: ์ ๋ง์? ์ ๋ 25์ด์ด์์. ๊ทธ๋ผ ์์ผ์ด ์ธ์ ์์?ย
= Really? I am 25 too. So, when is your birthday ?
๋: 2์ 13์ผ์ด์์.
= It is February 13th.
๊ฐ: ์ ๋ย 3์ 10์ผ์ด์์. ๊ทธ๋ผ ๋๋ฉ๋์นด๊ฐ ์ธ๋์์*!
= Mine is March 10th. So, you are older than me*.
๋: ์๋์์. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ๊ทธ๋ฅ ๋ฐ๋งํด์*!ย
= No, Let's use banmal*.
๊ฐ: ํํ, ์๊ฒ ์ด์!ย
= Haha, okay!
*์ธ๋ย : older sister
When we are both a women, and you're older than me, I can call you like that.
*๋ฐ๋งย : casual expression
Reflection exercises are available in the Apply dialog.
**if you want to read more conversation dialogues, click here.
Conversation 2
๊ฐ: ๊ทธ๋ผ ๋๋ฉ๋์นด์จ๋ ์ด๋์ ์ด์์?ย
= So, Dominica, where do you live?
๋: ์ ๋ ํ๋์ ์ด์์.ย
= I live in Hongdae.
๊ฐ: ์ ๋ ํฉ์ ์ ์ด์์. ๊ฐ๊น์์! ๋๋ฉ๋์นด์จ๋ ์ธ์ ย ํ๊ตญ์ ์์ด์?ย
= I live in Hapjeong. It's close! Domenica, when did you come to Korea?
๋: ์ ๋ย 2023๋
1์์ ์์ด์.ย
= I came in January 2023.
๊ฐ: ์ฐ์, ๋๋ฌด ์ข์์!ย ย ย ย
= Wow, that's cool!ย ย ย
๋: ์ง์์จ๋ ๋๊ตฌ๋ ๊ฐ์ด ์ด์์?ย
= Who do you live with, Jisoo?ย
๊ฐ: ๋ค, ์ ๋ ๊ฐ์กฑ์ด๋ ๊ฐ์ด ์ด์์.ย
= I live with my family.
๋: ๊ฐ์กฑ์ด ๋ช ๋ช
์ด์์?
= How many people are there in your family?
๊ฐ: 5๋ช
์ด์์. ์๋ง, ์๋น , ์ค๋น , ์ฌ๋์์ด ์์ด์.
= There are 5 people. I have mom, dad, brother and sister.
๋: ์, ์ ๋ง ๋ง์์! ์ ๋ ํผ์ ์ด์์.
= Wow, there are so many! I live alone.
๊ฐ: ๊ทธ๋ผ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ์์ฃผ ๋ง๋์! ์ ํ๋ฒํธ๊ฐ ๋ญ์์? = Then, let's meet often! What is your phone number?ย ย
๋: ์ข์์! ์ ๋ฒํธ๋ 010-3310-1789์์.
= Great! My number is 010-3310-1789.
๊ฐ: ์ ์ฅํ์ด์. ๋์ค์ ์ฐ๋ฝํ ๊ฒ์! = I saved it. I will contact you later!
**if you want to read more conversation dialogues, click here.
2. GRAMMAR
1. ASKING QUESTIONS
๋ญ = use to make "what" questions
Form:
๋ญ + verb
Examples: ๋ญ ํ์ด์? = What did you do?
์ด๊ฑฐ ๋ญ์์? = What is this? ๋ญ ๋จน์๋์? = What do you want to eat?
์ธ์ = use to make "when" questions
Form:
์ธ์ + verb
Examples: ์ธ์ ํ์ด์? = When did you do it? ์ธ์ ์ผ์ด๋์? = When do you get up?
์ํ๋ฅผ ์ธ์ ๋ณผ ๊ฑฐ์์? = When are we going to watch the movie?
์ด๋ย = use to make "where" questions
Form:
์ด๋ + verb
Examples: ์ด๋ ๊ฐ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์? = Where do you want to go?
์ด๋ ๊ฐ์ธ์? = Where are you going?
์ญ์ด ์ด๋์ ์์ด์? = Where is the station?
2. SINO-KOREAN NUMBERS
Use:
price
numbers (bus, phone)
temperature ๋
full date ๋ , ์, ์ผ
minutes ๋ถ, seconds ์ด
age ์ธ / (*age ์ด is used with native number)
months
anything over 100
์ผ = 1 | ์ก = 6 |
์ด = 2 | ์น = 7 |
์ผ = 3 | ํ = 8 |
์ฌ = 4 | ๊ตฌ = 9 |
์ค = 5 | ์ญ 10 |
์ญ์น = 17 (10+7)
ํ์ญ์ค = 85 (8+10+5)
๋ฐฑ = 100
์ฒ = 1.000
๋ง = 10.000
์ญ๋ง = 100.000
๋ฐฑ๋ง = 1.000.000
์ฒ๋ง = 10.000.000
์ต = 100.000.000
์ญ์ต = 1.000.000.000
3. COUNTERS
๋ช / ๋ฒ = counting marker
๋ช | a counter for people |
๋ฒ | a counter for behaviors/actions/numbering |
Form: object that we count + number + counting marker
Examples:
์ฌ๋ ํ ๋ช = One person
์ฌ๋ ์ธ ๋ช = Three person
๋ด์ผ ์น๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ๋ ๋ช ๋ง๋ ๊ฑฐ์์. = I'm going to meet 2 friends tomorrow.
๋์์ด ๋ค์ฏ ๋ช ์์ด์. = I have five 5 siblings.
๊ทธ ์ํ๋ฅผ ์ฌ์ฏ ๋ฒ ๋ดค์ด์. = I've watched this movie 6 times.
์ด์ ์ปคํผ๋ฅผ ํ ๋ฒ ๋ง์ จ์ด์. = I had a cup of coffee yesterday.
์ ๋ 125 ๋ฒ ๋ฒ์ค๋ฅผ ํ์. = I take bus number 125.
3. PRACTICE MORE
Applied conversation / ๋ฐ๋ง
๊ฐ: ํน์ ์ด๋ฆ์ด ๋ญ์์?ย
๋: ์ ๋ ์๋ฆฌ์์.ย
๊ฐ: ๋ฐ๊ฐ์์ ์๋ฆฌ์จ! ์ ๋ ์ง์ฒ ์ด์์.
ย ย ย ย ย ํน์ ๋์ด๊ฐ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋์ธ์?
๋: ์ ๋ 22์ด์ด์. 02๋ ์์ด์์.ย
๊ฐ: ์! ์ ๋ ๋๊ฐ์ด์์. ํน์ ์์ผ์ ์ธ์ ์์?
๋: 5์์ด์.
๊ฐ: ๋๋ฐ! ์ ๋์์. ์, ๊ทธ๋ผ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ๋ฐ๋งย ์จ์!ย
๋: ์ข์์!ย
ย ย ย ย ย ์ง์ฒ ์ด๋ ์ด๋์ ์ด์?
๊ฐ: ๋๋ ๊ฐ๋จ์ ์ด์. ๋๋?
๋: ๋๋ ์์ด๋์ ์ด์.ย
๊ฐ: ์ฐ์! ๊ทธ๋ผ ๊ฐ๊น๋ค. ์ฃผ๋ง์ ๋ง๋ ๊น?
๋: ๊ทธ๋ ์ข์.ย
๊ฐ: ์ ํ๋ฒํธ๊ฐ ๋ญ์ผ?ย
๋: ๋ด ๋ฒํธ๋ 010-2345-1234์ผ.ย
๊ฐ: ์ค์ผ์ด, ์ ์ฅํ์ด! ์นดํก๋ ์น์ถํ ๊ฒ.ย
*์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋์ธ์? - What is your~?
ex) ์ด๋ฆ์ด ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋์ธ์? = ์ด๋ฆ์ด ๋ญ์์? = what is your name.
๋์ด๊ฐ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋์ธ์? = ๋ช ์ด์ด์์? = how old are you?(what is your age).
*02๋ ์์ด์์. Recently, Koreans have been asking "How old are you?" as "What year are you born?" because "Korean age" has recently been eliminated, and Koreans ask when they were born for clarity.
4. VOCABULARY
๋ญ = What
์ธ์ = When
์ด๋ = Where
๋๊ตฌ = Who
์ด๋ป๊ฒ = How
๋ช ์ด์ด์์? = How old are you?
๋ช ๋ช = How many people
๋ = Year
์ = Month
์ผ = Day
์์ผ = Birthday
์ ๋ง = Really (Casual) / Indeed (Formal)
๊ทธ๋ฅ = As it is
๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ฉด (shorter version - ๊ทธ๋ผ) = Then
ํน์ = By any chance
์น๊ตฌ = Friend
์ด๋ค = Live
๊ฐ๊น๋ค = Close, Nearby
์ค๋ค = Come
๋๋ฌด = Too, So
์ข๋ค = Good, Fine
๊ฐ์กฑ = Family
์๋ง = Mom
์๋น = Dad
์ค๋น = Brother
์ฌ๋์ = Sister (Younger)
๋ง๋ค = Many, A lot of
์์ฃผ = Often
๋ง๋๋ค = Meet, See
์ ํ๋ฒํธ = Phone number
์ฐ๋ฝ = Contact
๋๊ฐ = same age
์นดํก = korean texting application
์น์ถ = abbreviation of '์น๊ตฌ์ถ๊ฐ'. that means "add friend".
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