KOREAN

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Vocabulary

Nouns:

투자자 = investor

주식 = stocks

주식시장 = stock market

취재진 = crowds of reporters

입구 = entrance

교복 = school uniform

세수 = to clean one's face

인기 = popularity (usually combined 끌다)

여신 = goddess

별명 = nickname

기업 = enterprise

현실 = reality

폼 = posture

제사 = praying to ancestors on a holiday

Verbs:

떨어뜨리다 = to drop*

제안(하다) = proposal/propose

투자(하다) = invest(ment)

부정하다 = deny

배분하다 = distribute

취재하다 = to report a story

되짚다 = backtrack/retrace steps

되짚어보다 = reminisce about the past

깨닫다 = realize

망설이다 = hesitate

Passive Verbs:

떨어지다 = to be dropped*

Adjectives:

북적거리다 = crowded/packed

귀찮다 = annoying

Adverbs and Other Words:

고르게 = evenly/flatly

곰곰이 = to think hard about

훗날 = the distant future

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Words With *

Introduction

In the previous lesson, you learned about how to use ~아/어서 to create the meaning of "because" in Korean sentences. There are actually many ways you can create the meaning of 'because' in Korean - the most common of those being by connecting two clauses with ~아/어서.

In this lesson however, you will learn another very common way to say "because" in Korean, which is pretty much interchangeable with ~아/어서. Let's get started.

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Because/Therefore: ~기 때문에

Look up the word "때문" in the dictionary and the translation will be "reason" or something similar to that. This word technically can be used in sentences by itself to have the meaning "reason" but it is much more commonly used as the grammatical principle ~기 때문에. By connecting two clauses with ~기 때문에, you can create the same meaning as ~아/어서. For example, if I were to say:

저는 배고파서 밥을 먹고 싶어요 = I'm hungry, therefore, I want to eat (I want to eat because I am hungry)

You could also say:

저는 배고프기 때문에 밥을 먹고 싶어요 = I want to eat because I am hungry

The two are exactly the same. You can add ~기 때문에 to adjectives or verbs: