KOREAN

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Vocabulary

Nouns:

부전공 = minor (in university)

형식 = form/formality/format

진로 =path that somebody/something takes

과정 = process

축제 = festival/carnival

목록 = list/inventory

상점 = store

시야 = vision/field of vision

개수 = the number of

도구 = tools

응접실 = living room

햇빛 = sun light

모형 = model/mockup/miniature

은박지 = tinfoil

Verbs:

놀라게 하다 = to surprise

발견하다 = discover

이수하다 = finish a course of study

도달하다 = arrive/reach

싣다 = to load

둘러보다 = look around

들여다보다 = look into

내다보다 = look out of/look into the future

노크하다 = knock

성취하다 = accomplish(ment)

싸다 = wrap up

맞히다 = guess correctly

선글라스를 끼다 = put on sunglasses

Passive Verbs:

싸이다 = to be wrapped up

Adjectives:

날씬하다 = slim/slender (for a woman)

Adverbs and Other Words:

더욱(더욱) = more and more

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Introduction

In this lesson, you will learn how to say "I make" or "I let" somebody to do something. Just like with a lot of other Korean grammatical principles, this one doesn't make sense at first to English speakers, simply because the construction is so different from English grammar. As always, I will break it down for you step by step. Lets get started.

To make/To let...: ~게 하다

Before we begin, note that "make" has many meanings in English. In this lesson, we are not talking about the definition of "make" as in "to make a cake" (만들다). Instead, we are talking about the definition of the word "make" in the following sentence:

I make my mom happy

Note here that this definition of "make" has nothing to do with actually making an object. Rather, it is about influencing/telling somebody what to do. More examples of this definition in English:

I made him study

I want to make my friend go

I will make him sleep

It sounds weird, but the grammatical principle used to say "make" (in this definition) is also used to mean "to let" in English. For example:

I let him study