Learn how to discuss the weather
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| Hi, everyone! Welcome to the Korean Whiteboard Lesson. My name is K-Jin. |
| 안녕하세요, 케이진입니다. |
| (Annyeonghaseyo, keijin-ibnida.) |
| In this lesson, you will learn how to make small talk about the weather in Korean. |
| Let’s get started! |
| So, how can you conjugate this weather condition word with 죠 (jyo). It’s very simple, let’s look at this vocabulary and let’s conjugate it together. |
| First word we have is 덥다 (deop-da). |
| 덥다 (deop-da). |
| It means “hot.” |
| And how can you conjugate it? |
| Do you see this dialogue? It said 덥죠 (deop-jyo), right? |
| 덥죠 (deop-jyo) |
| So, all the Korean words here end with 다 (da). This is the dictionary form, so 덥다 (deop-da). |
| 덥다 (deop-da). |
| It ended with 다 (da) sound because it’s a dictionary form. But we now want to conjugate with 죠 (jyo), which is “Right?” or “Is it?” a tag question. Just remove 다 (da) at the end and say 죠 (jyo). So, this is called stem; stem of the verb or stem of the adjective. You just get the stem by removing 다 (da) at the end and just put 죠 (jyo) here, as in 덥죠 (deop-jyo). |
| 덥죠 (deop-jyo) |
| It means “It’s hot, right?” |
| “It’s hot, isn’t it?” |
| How about this? |
| 춥다 (chup-da) |
| 춥다 (chup-da) |
| It means “cold.” |
| Again, it ends with 다 (da) because it’s the dictionary form. Just remove 다 (da) and put 죠 (jyo) at the end. So, it means 춥죠 (chup-jyo). |
| 춥죠 (chup-jyo) |
| It means “It’s cold, isn’t it?” |
| “It’s cold, right?” |
| 춥죠 (chup-jyo) |
| How about this? |
| 선선하다 [seon-seon-ha-da] |
| 선선하다 [seon-seon-ha-da] |
| It means “cool.” |
| Okay, again, it ended with 다 (da), so remove 다 (da) and just put 죠 (jyo) at the end. |
| 선선하죠 (seon-seon-ha-jyo) |
| 선선하죠 (seon-seon-ha-jyo) |
| It means, “It’s cold, isn’t it?” |
| “It’s cold, right?” |
| 선선하죠 (seon-seon-ha-jyo) |
| By the way, do you know any other Korean word for “cool”? |
| Which is 시원한다 (siwonhan-da). |
| 시원한다 (siwonhan-da) |
| It also means “cool,” but the difference is 시원한다 (siwonhan-da) is more general, so you can use it for anything. Like beer, beer is cool, 시원한 맥주 (siwonhan maegju), or anything cool like cold water, you can use this word, 시원한다 (siwonhan-da). |
| But 선선하다 (seon-seon-ha-da), this means “cool” too, but it can be used for weather only. |
| 선선하다 (seon-seon-ha-da) |
| How about this? |
| 따뜻하다 (tta-tteut-ha-da) |
| 따뜻하다 (tta-tteut-ha-da) |
| So, remove 다 (da) at the end and just put 죠 (jyo) at the end. |
| 따뜻하죠 (tta-tteut-ha-jyo) |
| “It’s warm, right?” |
| 날씨가 좋다 (nal-ssi-ga jo-ta) |
| 날씨가 좋다 (nal-ssi-ga jo-ta) |
| It means “be good weather.” |
| So, if you break it down, 날씨 (nal-ssi) means the “weather,” 가 (ga) is particle, and 좋다 (jo-ta), 좋다 (jo-ta) it means “good.” So, it literally means “the weather is good,” the weather is good, right? The weather is good, isn’t it? You wanna say that “Right?” then you just put 죠 (jyo). Remove 다 (ta) and just put 죠 (jyo). |
| 날씨가 좋죠 (nal-ssi-ga jo-jyo) |
| 날씨가 좋죠 (nal-ssi-ga jo-jyo) |
| So, it means “The weather is good, isn’t it?” |
| “The weather is good, right?” |
| Or, “It’s a good weather, isn’t it?” |
| “It’s a good weather, right?” |
| So, you can now talk about the weather condition using this 죠 (jyo) as a small talk in Korea. |
| First, we have a dialogue between two neighbors who met in the elevator. |
| One of them commented: |
| 오늘 덥죠? (O-neul deop-jyo?) |
| And the other person says: |
| 네, 그렇네요. (Ne, geu-reon-ne-yo.) |
| Listen one more time. |
| 오늘 덥죠? (O-neul deop-jyo?) |
| 네, 그렇네요. (Ne, geu-reon-ne-yo.) |
| 오늘 덥죠? (O-neul deop-jyo?) “It’s hot today, right?” |
| 오늘 덥죠? (O-neul deop-jyo?) “It’s hot today, right?” |
| 네, 그렇네요. (Ne, geu-reon-ne-yo.) “Yes, it is.” |
| 네, 그렇네요. (Ne, geu-reon-ne-yo.) “Yes, it is.” |
| So, it’s a very, very common talk in Korea. It’s a conversation starter. Or after saying hello, you don’t know what to talk about, the weather is a perfect topic to talk about, right? |
| So, what if the weather is not hot? Then you need different phrases. So let’s look at more examples. |
| 오늘 춥죠? (O-neul chup-jyo?) |
| 오늘 춥죠? (O-neul chup-jyo?) “It’s cold today, right?” |
| 오늘 선선하죠? (O-neul seon-seon-ha-jyo?) |
| 오늘 선선하죠? (O-neul seon-seon-ha-jyo?) “It’s cool today, right?” |
| 오늘 따뜻하죠? (O-neul tta-tteut-ha-jyo?) |
| 오늘 따뜻하죠? (O-neul tta-tteut-ha-jyo?) “It’s warm today, right?” |
| 오늘 날씨가 좋죠? (O-neul nal-ssi-ga jo-jyo?) |
| 오늘 날씨가 좋죠? (O-neul nal-ssi-ga jo-jyo?) “It’s a good weather, right?” |
| So, do you see some pattern in the examples? |
| Yes, it follows this pattern, actually. |
| 오늘 (O-neul) and [WEATHER CONDITION] and 죠 (jyo)? |
| 오늘 (O-neul) [WEATHER CONDITION] 죠 (jyo)? |
| It means its weather condition today, right? |
| So, 늘 (O-neul) means “today” and you put the weather condition word here and put 죠 (jyo). 죠 (jyo) is like a tag question, so it’s like “Right?” or “Is it?” Is it? So, it’s a tag question, so you expect the other person to agree with you, just to continue the conversation. |
| 오늘 (O-neul)... 죠 (jyo)? |
| So, you need to conjugate this weather condition word with 죠 (jyo). |
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