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๊ทธ๋ ๋ค
๊ทธ๋ ๋ค is usually used as an adjective or adverb.
As an adjective, itโs ๊ทธ๋ฐ, which means ยซย that sort of/that kind of/that type ofย ยป An example is ์ ๋ ๊ทธ๋ฐ ์ฌ๋์ ๋ฏฟ์ง ์์์ ยซย I donโt trust those kinds of people/that type of personย ยป
As an adverb, itโs ๊ทธ๋ ๊ฒ, which means ยซย like thatย ยป An example is ์ ๋ ๊ทธ๋ ๊ฒ ์๊ฐํ์ง ์์์ ยซย I donโt think like thatย ยป
์ด๋ ๋ค
์ด๋ ๋ค can also be an adjective or adverb. It also means ยซย like thisย ยป
As an adjective, itโs ์ด๋ฐ, which means ยซย this sort of/this kind of/this type ofย ยป An example is ์ด๋ฐ ์ฐจ๋ ๋๋ฌด ์ปค์ ยซย This type of car is too bigย ยป
As an adverb, itโs ์ด๋ ๊ฒ, which means ยซย like thisย ยป An example is ์ ์ด๋ ๊ฒ ์ผ์ฐ ๊ฐ์? ยซย Why are you going to early (like this)?ย ยป
*Note, the words ยซย like thisย ยป in English arenโt really needed in a sentence. This is something that you just pick up after a while when learning Korean. When Korean people ask a ยซย whyย ยป question, they often stress the phrase ยซย whyย ยป by usingย ์ด๋ ๊ฒ*
์ ๋ ๋ค
์ ๋ ๋ค can be used just like ๊ทธ๋ ๋ค and ์ด๋ ๋ค, you just have to keep in mind the differences in the meaning of ์ด, ๊ทธ, and ์ .
Example as an adjective are ์ ๋ ์ ๋ฐ ์ฐจ๋ฅผ ์ฌ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์ ยซย I want to buy that type of carย ยป
Example as an adverb is ์๋น ๋ ์ ์ ๋ ๊ฒ ๋งํ๊ณ ์์ด์? ยซย Why is dad talking like that?ย ยป
์ด๋ ๋ค, ๊ทธ๋ ๋ค and ์ ๋ ๋ค can also be used as the predicating word/end of a sentence (these are usually only seen in simple sentences asking/indicating if something is ยซย like thisย ยป or ยซย like thatย ยป).
Examples are:
์ด ํ๊ต๋ ๊ทธ๋ ์ง ์์ต๋๊น? ยซย Is this school no like that as well?ย ยป
๋ค, ๊ทธ๋ ์ต๋๋ค ยซย Yes, that is correct/that is the way it isย ยป
The most common way youโll see these ad a beginner is like this:
์ ์ด๋?
์ ๊ทธ๋?
์ ์ ๋?
When adding โ~์ด/์โ (or one of its derivatives), the โใ โ is dropped and the โใ โ turns into โใ โ
Saying ยซย Why are you like this/like that?ย ยป is Korean is very common in conversation. It could be compared to the English ยซย Whatโs wrong?ย ยป or ยซย Whatโs the matter?ย ยป
๊ทธ๋ ๋ค is used very often as Koreans will use it as an agreement to something. Example:
Person A: ์ ๊ฐ ์ง๊ธ ๊ฐ์. ยซย Iโm going to go nowย ยป
Person B: ๊ทธ๋์! ยซย Sure! (Like that is fine!)ย ยป
Similarly, it can also be used to show shock or disbelief, but not an in actuality way, but in more of a ยซย Oh, Iโm interested in the conversationย ยป type of way. Itโs like the English phrase ยซย really?!ย ยป
Example:
Person A: ์ ๋ ์ง๋ ์ฃผ์ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ ์์์ด์. ยซย Last week I went to the United States.ย ยป
Person B: ๊ทธ๋์? ์ด๋์ ๊ฐ์ด์? ยซย Really?! Where did you go?ย ยป
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