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Should/Have To/Must Posted by Ginny on Apr 20, 2010
~어/아야 되다 can be used to express should/must/have : 도와야 돼요 = I have to/should/must help (verb is 돕다 = to help. This is a irregular ㅂ ending verb so it’ll change to 도와. 되다 will change to 돼요.) You can also use ~어/아야 하다 to express should/must/have : 우리 서둘러야 해요 = We must/should/have to hurry (우리 =…
Spring Festivities in South Korea Posted by Ginny on Apr 17, 2010
The Cornus Fruit Festival in 인천 is a beautiful festival that highlights cornus fruit trees. The trees tend to bloom in the spring and from far away, it looks as though the area is covered in a sea of gold leaves. Some of the trees are actually hundreds of years old. Tourists are allowed to walk…
Don’t Want To/Don’t like to/Hate… Posted by Ginny on Apr 14, 2010
In the previous post, we talked about expressing our desires. In this post, we’ll be talking about the opposite. 울고 싶지 않아요 = I don’t want to cry. As you can see in the example above, the grammatical construction for “don’t want to…” is ~고 싶지 않아요. The verb “to cry” is 울다, so to…
Expressing Desire Posted by Ginny on Apr 11, 2010
When expressing desire in the first person, use the construction ~고 싶다. 김치를 먹고 싶어요 = I want to eat kimchee. (김치 = kimchee. 를 = object marking particle. 먹고 싶어요 = want to eat) In the third person, use the construction ~고 싶어하다. 민지는 여행가고 싶어해요 = Minji wants to travel. (민지 = Minji. 는 =…
Egg Based Dishes Posted by Ginny on Apr 8, 2010
Did you have some eggs lying around the house that you didn’t use for Easter? Instead of wasting the eggs by throwing them out, why not make some tasty dishes using the eggs! To make 계란 말이 mix some eggs with salt. Then pour the mixture over a heated and greased pan. Throw in some…
Potential Vs. Knowing How to Do Something Posted by Ginny on Apr 5, 2010
To state that you can do something or have the potential to so something, use the ~(으) ㄹ 수 있다 construction : 집을 지을 수 있어요 = I can build a house (집 = house. 을 = object marking particle. 지을 수 있어요 = can build) (짓다 = to build) Compare the above sentence with…
ㅎ Ending Words Posted by Ginny on Apr 2, 2010
A lot of color words have the ㅎ ending. For example, 빨갛다 (red) falls in this category. There are other words that are not color words that have a ㅎ ending. 그렇다 (to be in that way, to be like that) is another example In the standard polite present tense form 그렇다 will be 그래요. Drop…