#4-20

안녕하세요! Welcome to today’s lessons. We’ll go through four lessons today. Lesson 17 is about word contractions, lesson 18 is about the superlative, lesson 19 is about less/not completely and lesson 20 is about key sentences! 

Lesson 17

As we know, Korean uses topic markers (은/는) and subject markers (이/가). However, the 빨리빨리 culture can also be found in writing, as they prefer to shorten their sentences and save 0.1 seconds! ㅋㅋㅋ Please note, contracting sentences makes them informal. 

Topic marker contraction:

저는 becomes 전 (formal)

나는 becomes 난 (informal)

이것은 (formal) becomes 이거는 (informal) becomes 이건 (informal)

세울에는 becomes 세울엔

에제는 becomes 에젠 

etc. etc.

Subject marker contraction:

이것이 (formal) becomes 이게 (informal)

저것이 (formal) becomes 저게 (informal)

Lesson 18

In this lesson we’re making the superlative using 제일 and 가장. The difference between these two is that 제일 is Sino-Korean and 가장 is Native-Korean. You can switch between these two without a problem, it doesn’t matter which one you use. 제일 is used more commonly in spoken Korean than 가장.

Examples:

예쁘다 = to be pretty

제일 예뻐요. = (subject) is the prettiest/the most beautiful.

제일 예쁜 여자 = the prettiest girl/the most beautiful girl 

Lesson 19

If you know that 더 means more, then you’ll easily remember the word for less! 덜! 덜 is placed before the verb.

Examples:

덜 쓰다 = to use (something) less

덜 춥다 = to be less cold

덜 비싸다 = to be less expensive

덜 can also mean “not completely yet”. 덜 basically means “less”, but it can also mean “not fully” or “not completely yet”. The opposite of this is 다, which means “all” or “completely”.

Examples:

그 맥주 다 마셨어요?= Did you drink all of that beer?

아니요. 다 안 마셨어요. 덜 마셨어요. = No, I did not drink all of it. I have not finished it yet.

Lesson 20

Here are some key sentences you should learn! Easy peasy lesson!

Key sentence (1) 오늘부터 한국어를 더 열심히 공부할 거예요. = Starting from today, I am going to study Korean harder.

Key sentence (2) 아마 내일부터 일요일까지 비가 내릴 거예요. = It will probably rain from tomorrow until Sunday.

Key sentence (3) 내일 시간이 있으면, 같이 커피 마실래요? = If you have time tomorrow, will you drink coffee together (with me)?