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imaBALLER
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Simple Question.

Postby imaBALLER » April 23rd, 2010 12:21 am

난 집에 가자마자 샤워부터 해야겠다!

What is the function of 부터 in this sentence? Thanks!

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Postby imaBALLER » April 23rd, 2010 1:00 am

I have a second question as well.

In lower intermediate lesson 17 grammar notes it states that 감 comes from the chinese character 感 So I am wondering how it is used.

영화가 좀 너무 단순한 감이 있어. [단순하다]
(yeonghwa-ga jom neomu dansunhan gam-i isseo)
- This movie is somewhat too simple.

In this example sentence could it be written like this

영화가 좀 너무 단순한 感이 있어 or is it inappropriate to use the 한자 there?

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Postby manyakumi » April 23rd, 2010 4:26 am

부터 means "at first, first of all"

샤워부터 해야겠어.
I'd take a shower first of all.

imaBALLER wrote:영화가 좀 너무 단순한 감이 있어. [단순하다]
(yeonghwa-ga jom neomu dansunhan gam-i isseo)
- This movie is somewhat too simple.

감 is 'feeling' or 'intuition'.
So the sentence above really means,
"I have a feeling that this movie is somewhat too simple."

imaBALLER wrote:In this example sentence could it be written like this

영화가 좀 너무 단순한 感이 있어 or is it inappropriate to use the 한자 there?

You can use like that.
But no one else writes that way nowaday.

:-)

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Postby imaBALLER » April 23rd, 2010 8:45 am

Manyakumi,

Thanks again! You are one of the people who always seem to be helping me. Thanks :D

I don't want to necessarily write 感 but just be able to recognise it if I ever see it written.

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