KOREAN

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ntroduction

This lesson is focused entirely on difficult vocabulary; where I will teach you about some words that need to be explained before we can move on to more complex grammar. Specifically, you will learn how to to use: 자기/자신, 훨씬, 관하다/관련하다, 주위, 일단, 전혀/별로, words dealing with weight, and words ending in ~거리다. Let's get started.

First, lets look at the vocabulary I want you to know:

흔들다 = shake

흔들거리다 = wave hands

두리번거리다 = look around

머뭇거리다= to hesitate

자기 = oneself

자신 = oneself

아직 = still/yet

여전히 = still

별로 = not very (only negative sentences)

전혀 = not at all (only negative sentences)

훨씬 = much more

관하다 = about (에 대해)

관련하다 = related to/regarding

주위 = around the circumference

일단 = once (once I study...)

몸무게 = body weight

살 = body weight

무게 = weight

찌다 = to gain weight

빠지다 = to lose weight

For help memorizing these words, try using our Memrise tool.

Let's look at each word (or groups of words) individually.

~거리다

You will often see "~거리다" at the end of a word. Sometimes, you will see ~거리다 at the end of a word that can also end another way. For example, 흔들다 means "to shake/swing/wave." But you could also say 흔들거리다. What is the difference between the two?

When a word ends in ~거리다, it means that whatever is being done, is being done repeatedly. So:

흔들다 = to shake

흔들거리다 = to continually shake

Note that you can't just add ~거리다 to every word to give it the meaning of 'being repeated.' Only certain words can use this ending, and you should consider words ending in ~거리다 as a separate word, not just a normal word with a special ending.

In addition, some words only end in ~거리다 - that is - other than their ~거리다 form, there is no other way that they can be used. For example:

머뭇거리다 = to continually hesitate

두리번거리다 = to continually look around.

While the two examples above are words, "머뭇다" and "두리번다" are not words.

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자기 and 자신

Two more very important - and very difficult words are 자기 and 자신. Let's start with 자기 first. I will try to explain this word the best I can, but it will help for you to look in the dictionary for a lot of examples.

Whenever you say a sentence and you are talking about somebody in the third person, you can use 자기 to refer to that person the second time in the sentence. That sentence I just wrote is crazy hard to understand, but it makes sense. I will show you what I mean with some examples.