YOU ARE READING

LEARN KOREAN (한국어) [GRAMMAR] #1

Losowe

This is book #1 for the Korean Language series. Try to understand all of the notes in this book before you proceed to the next one. Good luck ! This book contains Korean grammar. Try to understand it so that you can understand how to make a sentence...

#korean #koreanlanguage #language #언어 #한국어

덜 - LESS

200 3 0

by cminji07

by cminji07

The word "덜" can be used to have the opposite meaning of 더. That is, it can be used to mean "less." For example:

나는 남동생보다 덜 잘생겼어 - I'm less handsome than my brother
한국에서 대학교는 고등학교보다 덜 어려워요 - In Korea, University is not as hard as high school

These sentences are correct, and would be perfectly understood, but it is usually more natural and common to create the opposite sentence and use 더 instead. For example, I would much rather say the following sentences than the two sentences above:

남동생이 나보다 더 잘생겼어 - My brother is more handsome than me
한국에서 고등학교는 대학교보다 더 어려워요 - In Korea, high school is harder than university

One more quick thing – it is kind of funny/cute slang to pronounce 덜 as 들. I suggest you try it out sometime. Korean people often get a kick out of foreign people speaking in slang-like language. They usually can't get over the fact that we know Korean, let alone the fact that we know a bit of slang.