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So I came across this article on Soompi. And considering the amount of k-dramas i’ve passively watched. It’s time to get a grip on the most used vocab!

Part Two: HERE

CUE THE FLASHCARDS!  

and a bonus!

BT21 어디에 있어요? [eo-di-e-iss-eo-yo?]

If you want to know the location of something, or you’ve lost something eg. All the BT21 characters. And want to know where they are, you can ask ‘where is *insert pronoun/noun*?”

In Korean the word for WHERE or WHICH PLACE is:

어디에 [eo-di] 

And the location particle “TO” is: 

에 [e] 

Okay! Let’s try asking where different members of BT21 are, and using some location words in reply. 

1.  Q: Koya 어디에 있아요? [where is Koya?]

A: 탁자 위에 있어요 [On top of the table] 

2.  Q: Chimmy 어디에 있아요? [where is Chimmy?]

A: 탁자 아래에 있어요 [Under the table]

3.  Q: TATA 어디에 있아요? [where is TATA?]

A: 탁자 옆에 있어요 [Next to the table]

4.  Q: RJ 어디에 있아요? [where is RJ?]

A: 탁자 뒤에 있어요 [Behind the table]

5.  Q: Cooky 어디에 있아요? [where is Cooky?]

A: 탁자 앞에 있어요 [In front of the table]

With the location word “where/which place” you can also make other sentences! By placing “어디에” in front of the verb you want to do. 

Like:

Where do you want to go? 어디에 가고 싶어요? 

or 

Where do you want to eat?  어디에 먹어 싶어요?

Let’s just start this post with a gif of mr. clever bean Tae raising his hand. 

Yes it is you! I CHOOSE YOU TAEHYUNG. 

Say in a hypothetical situation, you were married to lovely Mr. Kim. And you were chilling out in your family home, with Yeontan 2.0 yapping around your feet. You hear the door rattling, and get a little scared, 

“Who is it?” you call out. 

and whoever is there replies with 

“저예요!” 

oh phew. it’s just taehyung. trying to open the front door. 

So its pretty straightforward! 

Unlike the syntax of an english sentence where we say 

“it is me!” Korean is all a bit Yoda-esque and its just flipped around so they say “Me, it is!” Which applies to any situation where you want to point at a noun and say what it is. 

And simple rule for knowing whether to use ye-yo or i-e-yo

just think: if the word ends in a vowel don’t use i-e-yo. 

because “i” is already a vowel, and putting two vowels next to each other is just nah. 

Cool? Cool. 

And the last thing, simply by asking any variance of this structure by raising your voice to make it sound like a question, guess what?

It becomes a question! How good. So good. 

*oh and if someone is annoying the heck outta you

뭐 means what. so you can chuck a 예 요 on the end 

Whether it’s flippantly waving off a shitty ex, or almost boyfriend, its good form to be able to say goodbye in any language. 

Which is why today we’ll be learning how to say goodbye in Korean.  Being the interesting language that is it. Korean has different ways of saying goodbye, depending on who’s doing the leaving. 

Pretty interesting hey? 

So if you’re leaving you’re pretty much saying 

“okay bye. you stay i’m leaving now!”

and if you’re the one staying, waving goodbye to that boy, friend or puppy and you’re seeing them leave you’re saying

What in Jimin’s Cheeks are modifiers?! Yep. I had no idea either, and my face was similar to that of Jimin’s mochi confusion as seen in the visuals above.

But they’re actually pretty simple. On their own, words like This thing. That thing and The item. are simply pronouns (and we’ll get back to how to say them as just pronouns later on in this post)

So if you friend asks you “which one do you want?”

and you reply “This thing” 

You are just speaking in pronouns. A word that comes before a noun, and doesn’t include the mention of the noun (or what you’re speaking about). 

Now that confusion is cleared up (was I the only one who was confused? hm. probably). Anyway now that MY confusion is cleared up, lettuce continue into the post. 

Get it? 이, 저 and 그 work as modifiers, to modify the location of the verbs they are referring to! 

Back to the pronouns: A fun skit. 

But if we just want to use them as pronouns, we can’t just use them as they are. 

it’d be like someone asking you, “oh which one?’ 

and you reply “this.” 

and they’re thinking “This WHAT? This...tree? This...floor...This thing right in front of me? This worm? This ASFSDLKJFSLDKJFSF!!??!” 

and you’re like “no. this...thing. This item” *points to item*

and they’re like “OH great, see how much that clarifies when you USE YOUR PRONOUNS, AND GESTICULATION PROPERLY” 

So yeah the addition of “거" (which simply means “thing” to the end of the modifiers makes them usable pronouns. That you can whip out in isolation, without having to know the names of the nouns you’re pointing to. 

Herro! As we all know I am a drop-dead beginner in Korean. But a lovely person has messaged me, informing that there were some mistakes my mess of a post  in Lesson 8 (which I have fixed) 

Mostly in reference to the “Dialogue about Twin Jin and JK” at the end of the post. 

And i’ll share them here! they might be good tips that will help some of you out as well 

^see disappointed namjoon: like why are you messing up my language dude?

1. 그거  cannot be used for people either it’s like calling them “this” - u can say 그 사람 or 그 남자 etc.

2. you have to decide whether you are speaking formal or informal Korean (진짜요 is the correct word here) 

so please don’t respond to someone with 짅짜, even if like me you’ve heard it on k-media and want to whip it out. It’s informal language. And paired with the language in the lesson is like mixing informal with formal. 

So tack on a “요” at the end to make it formal “짅짜요" and we all g. 

3. 맞아요 sounds completely unnatural in your example. No need to use it.