KOREAN

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Vocabulary

Nouns:

쌍둥이 = twins

보충 = supplement

백조 = swan

실내 = interior

정책 = policy

통화 = currency

문항 = question

단백질 = protein

지방 = fat

탄수화물 = carbohydrate

양 = amount

야간 = night

Verbs:

헤엄치다 = swim

해고하다 = fire (a person from a job)

통보하다 = notice/notification

통지하다 = notice/notification

꺼내다 = take out

건네다 = hand-over/pass to somebody

청결(하다) = clean (cleanliness)

해설하다 = explain/explanation

최선을 다하다 = the best one can do

데리러 오다/가다 = pick up

Adjectives:

의도적이다 = intentional/deliberate

꾸준하다 = unrelenting/tireless/steady

Adverbs and Other Words:

사전(에) = prior/beforehand/ahead of time

쌍 = pair (counter)

한가롭게 = leisurely

딱 = exactly/perfectly/precisely/just

무조건 = unconditionally

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Introduction

In this lesson, you will learn about adding ~았/었으면 좋겠다 to the end of sentences to have the meaning of "hope." In addition to this, you will learn about the word "바라다" and how this could also mean "hope" in Korean as well. Let's get started.

To hope: 바라다

Let's start off with the less common (and more difficult) of the two. The word "바라다" in Korean means "to hope," and can be used after a sentence (that one is hoping for) in the ~는 것 form. For example:

저는 저의 여자 친구가 저를 좋아하는 것을 원해요 = I want my girlfriend to like me

저는 저의 여자 친구가 저를 좋아하는 것을 바라요 = I hope my girlfriend likes me

Here's a confusing one: For some reason, 바라다 sort of acts as an irregular. I'm not sure how this evolved, but Korean people usually pronounce "바라 + 아" (which would happen if you are conjugating 바라다 into the high respect informal and low respect informal honorific conjugations) as "바래." Even though I think 바라요 would originally/historically be correct, people these days often right "바래" or "바래요" instead of "바라" and "바라요." For example:

저는 저의 여자 친구가 저를 좋아하는 것을 바래요 = I hope my girlfriend likes me

Another confusing thing is that 바라다 is often used with ~기(를) to make the preceding sentence into a noun instead of ~는 것. For example: