KOREAN

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Vocabulary

Nouns:

소방서 = fire station

무릎 = knee

얼음 = ice

흡연 = smoking

종아리 = calf

사무 = desk/office work

관리비 = management fees

치료 = treatment/cure

치료비 = medical fees

보관료 = storage fees

땅값 = land prices

원룸 = one room apartment (studio)

입장료 = entrance fees

등록금 = tuition/registration fee

교통비 = transportation fees

화장 = makeup

소방 = firefighting

초등학교 = elementary school

첫차 = first bus

가격표 = price tag

여우 = fox

Verbs:

이사하다 = moving (moving houses)

귀국하다 = return to your home country

아껴 쓰다 = to save something

터지다 = explode

기대다 = lean against

얻다 = gain

임신하다 = to get pregnant

Adjectives:

일방적이다 = one sided

짜다 = salty

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

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Introduction

In this lesson, you will learn how to use ~같이 보이다 to say that something/somebody looks like something. For example, "You look like a monkey!" The same pattern can be used to say that something smells/tastes like something. For example, "You smell like a monkey!" or "You taste like a monkey!" In addition, you will learn how to use ~아/어 보이다 to say that somebody looks like an adjective - for example "You look happy!"

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To Look Like: ~ 같이 보이다

One of the most common words in Korean is 보다 which means "to see." In Lesson 14, you learned the difference between passive and active verbs in Korean (and English). The word 보이다 is actually the passive form of 보다 and is used to indicate that something can or cannot be seen. For example:

TV가 안 보여 = I can't see the TV (literally - the TV cannot be seen)

여기서 산이 안 보여 = I can't see the mountains from here (literally - the mountains cannot be seen from here)

Aside from this application, you can use the word 보이다 in sentences to create the meaning of "... look like..." I'll show you how to build the sentences first, and then describe the meaning:

The first thing you need is a noun: 원숭이 (monkey)

Then place 같이 (the adverb form of 같다) after the noun

Then place the passive verb 보이다 after 같이.

One more time:

(noun) + 같이 보이다

원숭이 같이 보이다

Writing a sentence like that means "to look like a monkey." Throw in a subject and you have a full sentence: 너는 원숭이 같이 보여 = You look like a monkey

Other examples:

저의 남자친구는 교수님 같이 보여요 = My boyfriend looks like a professor

너는 고등학생 같이 보여 = You look like a high school student

Notice a few things: First, there is no particle attached to the word before 같이. As I said, 보이다 is a passive verb, so if any particle would be attached to it, it would either be 이/가 or 에. Nonetheless, neither of those are placed on the 'object' of that sentence . Secondly, essentially any noun can be placed before ~같이 보이다 - even nouns being described with ~는 것. For example:

그가 공연에 가고 싶지 않을 것 같이 보여 = He looks like he doesn't want to go to the performance

경기를 이긴 것 같이 보여 = You look like you won the game

So, you can use this grammatical principle to talk about when something looks like something (a noun). But what about when something tastes like something? Smells like something?

To Smell/Taste Like: 맛/냄새

The word 맛 is a noun which means "taste." You often see this word as "맛있다," which means "delicious," but literally translates to "to have taste." The word "냄새" is a noun which means "smell." In the previous section you learned how to say:

"___ looks like ____."

In this section, you will learn how to say

"___ tastes like ____." and

"___ smells like ____."

The grammar within these principles is similar, but not identical to what you were learning previously. What you need to do is place a noun (that has a taste or smell) before 맛 or 냄새, followed by "같다." For example:

____ 맛 같다 = tastes like ____

____ 냄새 같다 = smells like ____

For example:

김치 맛 같아 = Tastes like Kimchi

김치 찌깨 냄새 같아 = It smells like Kimchi Jjigae

Throw in a subject and you've got a full sentence:

이 떡은 쓰레기 맛 같아 = This 떡 tastes like garbage

Pretty simple, but I thought you should know because I always wanted to know how to say these sentences when I was learning Korean.

To Look (Adjective): ~어/아 보이다

At the start of this lesson, you learned how to express that something looks like a noun. However, there are many times when you would want to say somebody "looks (adjective)." For example:

You look happy

You look sad

You look strong

In order to do this, you need to add ~아/어 to an adjective, and then place 보이다 after it. For example:

행복해 보이다 = to look happy

슬퍼 보이다 = to look sad

강해 보이다 = to look strong

Some examples:

왜 그렇게 행복해 보여요? = Why do you look so happy?

저의 여자친구는 어제 너무 슬퍼 보였어요 = My girlfriend looked really sad yesterday

Very easy, but very common grammatical principle that you should take some time to memorize.

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