KOREAN

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Vocabulary

Nouns:

장기 = long term

민주주의 = democracy

식신 = somebody who eats a lot

물고기 = fish

길이 = length

밧줄 = rope

주인공 = main character/hero

소설가 = novelist

불만족 = dissatisfaction

자동차 = car/automobile

물살 = water current

시식 = free food from stores (tasting)

입력 = input

출력 = output

현금 = cash

현금인출기 = ATM

Verbs:

돌아서다 = turn around

늘이다 = to make longer

가리키다 = point (literally)/indicate

상상(하다) = imagination (imagine)

심다 = plant (a plant)/instill (knowledge)

뿌리다 = sprinkle

위로하다 = console (주다/받다)

Adjectives:

동일하다 = same/identical to

조그맣다 = little/tiny

월등하다 = vast difference in degree/exceptional

Adverbs and Other Words:

정각에 = on the hour

몹시 = heavily/badly/really bad

점차 = gradually/slowly

지금껏 = until now

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Introduction

In this lesson, you will learn something that hasn't been presented at all up to this point. Here, you will learn how to quote people (including yourself) when making sentences. After learning this, you will understand how important it is to know how to quote people in speech, as you will realize how often it comes up. Anyways, here we go, lets learn how to quote.

Quoting with Verbs: ~ㄴ/는다고

Quoting in Korean is counter-intuitive for an English speaker. With some Korean knowledge most people would assume that quoting would be done using the ~는 것 principle. For example, if I was going to say:

I knew (that) he went to the park

I could use the ~는 것 principle to create this sentence in Korean:

나는 그가 공원에 간 것을 알았다 = I knew (that) he went to the park

If I changed the word "knew" to "said," one would think that I could write this:

나는 그가 공원에 간 것을 말했다

However, this is not how quoting is done in Korean. The ordering of the quoted sentences is still the same as ~는 것 sentences, but ~는 것 is not used. So, lets take out ~는 것 in that sentence:

나는 그가 공원에 가???? 말했다

In quoted sentences, the actual "quoted" part gets conjugated into the plain form. Remember, the basic conjugation form for verbs is: