Learn about the days of the week
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| Hi, everyone! My name is K-Jin. |
| 안녕하세요, 케이진입니다. (Annyeonghaseyo, K-Jin-imnida.) |
| Welcome to another Korean Whiteboard Lesson! |
| In this lesson, we will learn how to say the days of the week in Korean. Please pay attention to how they're pronounced. |
| Let's get started! |
| Let's look at the vocabulary. First, we have... |
| 월요일 (wor-yo-il) |
| 월요일 (wor-yo-il) |
| [slowly] 월요일 (wor-yo-il) |
| 월요일 (wor-yo-il) |
| It means "Monday." |
| And next, we have… |
| 화요일 (hwa-yo-il) |
| [Slowly] 화요일 (hwa-yo-il) |
| 화요일 (hwa-yo-il) |
| It means "Tuesday." |
| As you can see here, 요일 (yo-il) is repeated, so you just need to memorize the first word. |
| Next, we have… |
| 수요일 (su-yo-il) |
| [Slowly] 수요일 (su-yo-il) |
| 수요일 (su-yo-il) |
| And it's "Wednesday" |
| Next, we have… |
| 목요일 (mog-yo-il) |
| [Slowly] 목요일 (mog-yo-il) |
| 목요일 (mog-yo-il) |
| It's "Thursday" |
| And we have… |
| 금요일 (geum-yo-il) |
| [Slowly] 금요일 (geum-yo-il) |
| 금요일 (geum-yo-il) |
| It's "Friday" |
| And now we have… |
| 토요일 (to-yo-il) |
| [Slowly] 토요일 (to-yo-il) |
| 토요일 (to-yo-il) |
| It means "Saturday" |
| And lastly, we have |
| 일요일 (ir-yo-il) |
| [Slowly] 일요일 (ir-yo-il) |
| 일요일 (ir-yo-il) |
| It means "Sunday" |
| So here are the seven words for you today. |
| 월요일 (wor-yo-il) |
| 화요일 (hwa-yo-il) |
| 수요일 (su-yo-il) |
| 목요일 (mog-yo-il) |
| 금요일 (geum-yo-il) |
| 토요일 (to-yo-il) |
| And lastly, we have 일요일 (ir-yo-il) |
| Let's look at the dialogue. Try to pay special attention to the day of the week. Find what day of the week it is and see where it's used in the sentence. |
| A: 오늘은 무슨 요일이에요? (O-neur-eun mu-seun yo-ir-i-e-yo?) |
| "What day of the week is it today?" |
| 오늘은 무슨 요일이에요? (O-neur-eun mu-seun yo-ir-i-e-yo?) |
| 오늘 (o-neur) means "today," and 은 (eun) is the topic-marking particle. |
| So 오늘은 (o-neur-eun) is like "as for today." |
| 무슨 (mu-seun) is like "what" in English. "What?" |
| 요일 (yo-il), "day of the week." |
| So, 무슨 요일 (mu-seun yo-il) means "what day of the week." |
| And 이에요 (i-e-yo) is kind of like "is" or "to be." |
| So in English, it's "What day of the week is it today?" or "What day of the week is today?" |
| 오늘은 무슨 요일이에요? (O-neur-eun mu-seun yo-ir-i-e-yo?) |
| Let's see the answer. |
| B: 오늘은 수요일이에요. (O-neur-eun su-yo-ir-i-e-yo.) |
| "Today is Wednesday." |
| 오늘은 (o-neur-eun), as you've just learned, means "as for today." |
| 수요일 (su-yo-il), this is a target vocabulary, right? |
| We have this, 수요일 (su-yo-il) means "Wednesday." |
| And 이에요 (i-e-yo) means "is," so it's like "Today is Wednesday." |
| 오늘은 수요일이에요. (O-neur-eun su-yo-ir-i-e-yo.) |
| A: 오늘은 무슨 요일이에요? (O-neur-eun mu-seun yo-ir-i-e-yo?) |
| B: 오늘은 수요일이에요. (O-neur-eun su-yo-ir-i-e-yo.) |
| Now, let's look at some speaking example. |
| 오늘은 월요일이에요. (O-neur-eun wor-yo-ir-i-e-yo.) |
| 오늘은 월요일이에요. (O-neur-eun wor-yo-ir-i-e-yo.) |
| 오늘은 (o-neur-eun), "as for today." |
| [slowly] 월요일 (wor-yo-il), "Monday." |
| 이에요 (i-e-yo), "is." |
| "Today is Monday." |
| 오늘은 월요일이에요. (O-neur-eun wor-yo-ir-i-e-yo.) |
| Next, we have… |
| 오늘은 금요일이에요. (O-neur-eun geum-yo-ir-i-e-yo.) |
| 오늘은 금요일이에요. (O-neur-eun geum-yo-ir-i-e-yo.) |
| 오늘은 (o-neur-eun), "as for today." |
| 금요일 (geum-yo-il), "Friday." |
| 이에요 (i-e-yo), "is." |
| "Today is Friday." |
| 오늘은 금요일이에요. (O-neur-eun geum-yo-ir-i-e-yo.) |
| Now let's look at the sentence pattern. This pattern will be the structure that all of our dialogues will follow… |
| 오늘은 [DAY OF THE WEEK]이에요. |
| (O-neur-eun [DAY OF THE WEEK]-i-e-yo.) |
| As I just mentioned, 오늘은 (o-neur-eun) means "as for today." |
| And [DAY OF THE WEEK] in Korean, such as 월요일 (wor-yo-il), "Monday," or "Friday," 금요일 (geum-yo-il). And say 이에요 (i-e-yo) at the end; it means like "to be" or "is." |
| So in English, it's like "Today is [DAY OF THE WEEK]" in Korean. |
| So for example, |
| 오늘은 화요일이에요. (O-neur-eun hwa-yo-ir-i-e-yo.) |
| It means "Today is Tuesday." |
| So try to use this sentence pattern, it's very useful. |
| 요일 (yo-il) means the day of the week in Korean, and it's the same ending used for every day of the week. To say the days of the week, we add 요일 (yo-il) after 월(wol), 화(hwa), 수(su), 목(mok), 금(geum), 토(to), and 일(il). Like in many other languages, these words all come from astronomy. |
| So if you know the days of the week in Korean, you can easily memorize the names of the planets, the moon, and the sun, by adding 성(seong) at the end mostly. |
| 달 (dal) is the "moon." The pronunciation of the Chinese character is 월(wol). |
| 화성(hwa-seong) means "mars." |
| 수성(su-seong) means "mercury." |
| 목성(mok-seong) means "jupiter." |
| 금성(geum-seong) means "venus." |
| 토성(to-seong) means "saturn." |
| 해 (hae) is the "sun." The pronunciation of the Chinese character is 일(il). |
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