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In this lesson, youโll learn how to talk about weather conditions in Korean. |
For example, "It's rainy." is |
๋น๊ฐ ์์. (Bi-ga wa-yo.) |
Yeon-a Yu is in rainy Seoul. |
Sheโs on a long-distance call with Yun-suk In, her former colleague, she asks about the current weather. |
Before you hear their conversation, let's preview some of its key components. |
๋ ์จ (nal-ssi) |
"weather" |
๋ ์จ (enunciated) |
๋ ์จ |
๋น (bi) |
"rain" |
๋น (enunciated) |
๋น |
Listen to the conversation, and focus on the response. |
Note: the speakers are using informal-polite Korean indicating a close relationship. |
Ready? |
๋ ์จ ์ด๋์? (Nal-ssi eo-ttae-yo?) |
๋น๊ฐ ์์. (Bi-ga wa-yo.) |
Once more with the English translation. |
๋ ์จ ์ด๋์? (Nal-ssi eo-ttae-yo?) |
"Howโs the weather?" |
๋น๊ฐ ์์. (Bi-ga wa-yo.) |
"It's raining." |
Let's break down the conversation. |
Do you remember how Yun-suk asks, |
"Howโs the weather?" |
๋ ์จ ์ด๋์? (Nal-ssi eo-ttae-yo?) |
First is ๋ ์จ(nal-ssi), "weather." ๋ ์จ (enunciated). ๋ ์จ. |
Next is ์ด๋์ (eo-ttae-yo), "how is" as in "how is the weather." ์ด๋์ (enunciated). ์ด๋์. |
This starts with ์ด๋ (eo-ttae), "how is." ์ด๋ (eo-ttae). |
์ด๋ (eo-ttae) is from the verb ์ด๋ป๋ค (eo-tteo-ta), meaning "be how" or "be like what." ์ด๋ป๋ค (eo-tteo-ta) |
Note: ์ด๋ป๋ค is a shortened form of ์ด๋ ํ๋ค (eo-tteo-ha-da). Both mean "be how" or "be like what." |
Next is ์(yo), the polite sentence ending. ์. |
Together, ์ด๋์(eo-ttae-yo), "how is" ์ด๋์ (enunciated). ์ด๋์. |
All together, ๋ ์จ ์ด๋์? (Nal-ssi eo-ttae-yo?) Literally "weather how is?" but it translates as "Howโs the weather?" |
๋ ์จ ์ด๋์? (Nal-ssi eo-ttae-yo?) |
Note: this is the shortened version of ๋ ์จ๊ฐ ์ด๋์? (Nal-ssi-ga eo-ttae-yo?) |
Yun-suk In omits the subject-marking particle ๊ฐ(ga). |
๋ ์จ ์ด๋์? (Nal-ssi eo-ttae-yo?) |
In spoken Korean, speakers tend to omit particles when itโs clear which particle would be used. |
Letโs take a closer look at the response. |
Do you remember how Yeon-a says, |
"Itโs raining." |
๋น๊ฐ ์์. (Bi-ga wa-yo.) |
First is ๋น (bi), "rain." ๋น (enunciated).๋น. |
Next is ๊ฐ (ga), the subject-marking particle. ๊ฐ (enunciated). ๊ฐ. |
It marks "rain" as the subject of the sentence. |
Note, ๊ฐ (ga) follows words that end with a vowel, such as ๋น(bi). |
Next is ์์ (wa-yo), "is coming," as in the rain is coming down. ์์ (enunciated). ์์. |
์ (wa) is from the verb ์ค๋ค (o-da), meaning "to come." ์ค๋ค(o-da). |
After this is ์ (yo) the polite sentence ending. ์ (enunciated). ์. |
Together, ์์ (wa-yo) translates as "is coming," as in the rain is coming down. ์์. |
All together, itโs ๋น๊ฐ ์์. (Bi-ga wa-yo.) This literally means "rain is coming," but it translates as "Itโs raining." |
๋น๊ฐ ์์. (Bi-ga wa-yo.) |
The pattern is |
{noun} {subject-marking particle } ์์. ({noun} {subject-marking particle } wa-yo.) |
{noun} {subject-marking particle } is coming (down). |
To use this pattern, simply replace the {noun} placeholder with a suitable weather noun, one that falls from the sky, such as rain. Then mark the subject with the corresponding subject-marking particle. |
๊ฐ (ga) follows words that end in a vowel, such as ๋น (bi). |
์ด (i) follows words that end in a vowel, such as ๋ (nun), "snow." |
In this lesson, you'll learn adjectives related to the weather that you can use with this pattern. |
Imagine it's snowing. ๋ (nun), "snow." ๋ (enunciated). ๋. |
Remember, when the subject ends in a consonant, use the subject-marking particle ์ด(i). |
Say |
"It's snowing." |
Ready? |
๋์ด ์์. (Nun-i wa-yo.) |
"It's snowing." |
๋์ด ์์. (Nun-i wa-yo.) |
Not all weather conditions can be described with this pattern, so you'll need other patterns, such as: |
{corresponding stem of adjective or verb describing the weather} a polite sentence ending. |
For example, |
๋ง์์. (Mal-ga-yo.) Itโs sunny. ๋ง์์. |
๋ง์์ is from the adjective ๋ง๋ค (mak-tta), meaning "to be clear." ๋ง๋ค (mak-tta). |
Conjugation note for the informal-polite form: the final vowel in the stem determines the conjugation pattern. |
if the final vowel of an adjective or verb stem is ใ
(o) or ใ
(a), then ์ (a) follows the stem, as in ๋ง์์. |
Note: ํ๋ค (ha-da), "to do," one of the most common verbs in Korean, is the exception to this rule. It has the final vowel ใ
(a), but it conjugates as ํด์(hae-yo). |
If the final vowel in a stem is anything else, then ์ด (eo) follows the stem. |
For example, ๋จน๋ค (meok-da) meaning "to eat." ๋จน๋ค (meok-da) |
The final vowel in the stem isnโt ใ
(a) or ใ
(o), so ์ด (eo) follows the stem ๋จน (meok), as in ๋จน์ด์ (meog-eo-yo). "I eat." |
Note: if the stem ends in a vowel, such as in the following case, a contraction will occur. For example, |
ํ๋ ค์ (heu-ryeo-yo), "Itโs cloudy." ํ๋ ค์. |
ํ๋ ค์. is from the adjective ํ๋ฆฌ๋ค (heu-ri-da), meaning "To be cloudy." ํ๋ฆฌ๋ค. |
The final vowel in the stem, ํ๋ฆฌ (heu-ri), is not ใ
(a) or ใ
(o), so ์ด(eo) follows the stem: ํ๋ฆฌ+์ด+์. |
Now, as the stem, ํ๋ฆฌ, ends in a vowel, ๋ฆฌ contracts with ์ด to form ๋ ค (ryeo). |
So, ํ๋ฆฌ+์ด+์ becomes ํ๋ ค์, "Itโs cloudy." ํ๋ ค์. |
In Korean, there are many of these contractions. |
Again, the pattern is |
{noun} + {subject-marking particle } ์์. ({noun} {subject-marking particle } wa-yo.) |
{noun} + {subject-marking particle } is coming (down). |
Letโs look at some more examples. |
Listen and repeat or speak along with the native speakers. |
๋น๊ฐ ์์. (Bi-ga wa-yo.) |
"It's raining." |
๋น๊ฐ ์์. (Bi-ga wa-yo.) |
๋์ด ์์. (Nun-i wa-yo.) |
"It's snowing." |
๋์ด ์์. (Nun-i wa-yo.) |
๋ง์์. (Mal-ga-yo.) |
"It's sunny." |
๋ง์์. (Mal-ga-yo.) |
ํ๋ ค์. (Heu-ryeo-yo.) |
"It's cloudy." |
ํ๋ ค์. (Heu-ryeo-yo.) |
์์ธ์ ๋น๊ฐ ์์. (Seo-ur-e bi-ga wa-yo.) |
"It's raining in Seoul." |
์์ธ์ ๋น๊ฐ ์์. (Seo-ur-e bi-ga wa-yo.) |
Did you notice how the last speaker added ์์ธ์ (Seo-ur-e)? |
์์ธ์ ๋น๊ฐ ์์. (Seo-ur-e bi-ga wa-yo.) |
"It's raining in Seoul." |
The phrase ์์ธ์ (Seo-ur-e) sets Seoul as a place for talking about the weather. |
When it's not yet clear which area you are talking about, you can add the following information: |
{location}์(e) + one of the patterns introduced before. |
Let's review the key vocabulary. |
๋ (nun). |
"Snow." |
๋ (enunciated). ๋. |
๋ง๋ค(mak-tta), |
"To be clear." |
๋ง๋ค (enunciated). ๋ง๋ค. |
๋ง์์. (Mal-ga-yo.). |
"Itโs sunny." |
๋ง์์. (Mal-ga-yo.) |
ํ๋ฆฌ๋ค(heu-ri-da). |
"To be cloudy." |
ํ๋ฆฌ๋ค (enunciated). ํ๋ฆฌ๋ค. |
ํ๋ ค์. (Heu-ryeo-yo.) |
"Itโs cloudy." |
ํ๋ ค์ (enunciated). ํ๋ ค์. |
Let's review. |
Respond to the prompts by speaking aloud. Then repeat after the native speakers, focusing on pronunciation. |
Ready? |
Do you remember how to say "rain?" |
๋น. (bi.) |
๋น. (bi.) |
And the subject-marking particle that follows words ending in vowels? |
๊ฐ. (ga) |
๊ฐ. (ga) |
Do you remember how Yeon-a Yu says, |
"Itโs raining." |
๋น๊ฐ ์์. (Bi-ga wa-yo.) |
๋น๊ฐ ์์. (Bi-ga wa-yo.) |
Do you remember how to say "weather?" |
๋ ์จ (nal-ssi) |
๋ ์จ (nal-ssi) |
Do you remember how Yun-suk In asks, |
"How is the weather?" |
๋ ์จ ์ด๋์? (Nal-ssi eo-ttae-yo?) |
๋ ์จ ์ด๋์? (Nal-ssi eo-ttae-yo?) |
Do you remember the word meaning "to be clear?" |
๋ง๋ค. (mak-tta.) |
๋ง๋ค. (mak-tta.) |
And the informal-polite spoken way to say |
"Itโs clear." |
๋ง์์. (Mal-ga-yo.) |
๋ง์์. (Mal-ga-yo.) |
Do you remember how to say "snow?" |
๋. (nun.) |
๋. (nun.) |
Let's practice. |
Imagine youโre Yeon-a Yu, and itโs raining. |
Respond to the question. |
Ready? |
๋ ์จ ์ด๋์? (Nal-ssi eo-ttae-yo?) |
๋น๊ฐ ์์. (Bi-ga wa-yo.) |
Listen again and repeat. |
๋น๊ฐ ์์. (Bi-ga wa-yo.) |
๋น๊ฐ ์์. (Bi-ga wa-yo.) |
Letโs try another. |
Imagine youโre Yun-suk, and itโs sunny. |
Ready? |
๋ ์จ ์ด๋์? (Nal-ssi eo-ttae-yo?) |
๋ง์์. (Mal-ga-yo.) |
Listen again and repeat. |
๋ง์์. (Mal-ga-yo.) |
๋ง์์. (Mal-ga-yo.) |
Letโs try one more. |
Imagine youโre Min-gyu Mun, and itโs snowing. |
Ready? |
๋ ์จ ์ด๋์? (Nal-ssi eo-ttae-yo?) |
๋์ด ์์. (Nun-i wa-yo.) |
Listen again and repeat. |
๋์ด ์์. (Nun-i wa-yo.) |
๋์ด ์์. (Nun-i wa-yo.) |
In this lesson, you learned how to talk about weather in Korean. This plays an essential role in the larger skill of talking about the weather. Letโs review. |
Do you remember how to say "today?" |
์ค๋ (o-neul) |
์ค๋ (o-neul) |
Do you remember how to say, |
"Itโs hot today, isnโt it?" |
์ค๋ ๋ฅ์ฃ ? (O-neul deop-jyo?) |
์ค๋ ๋ฅ์ฃ ? (O-neul deop-jyo?) |
Imagine you're Jack Jones, and it's cold outside. |
Do you remember how to say "cold, right?" in Korean? |
์ถฅ์ฃ ? (Chup-jyo?) |
์ถฅ์ฃ ? (Chup-jyo?) |
Now, tell your friend that it's cold. |
์ค๋ ์ถฅ์ฃ ? (O-neul chup-jyo?) |
๋ค, ๊ทธ๋ ๋ค์. (Ne, geu-reon-ne-yo.) |
Listen again and repeat. |
์ค๋ ์ถฅ์ฃ ? (O-neul chup-jyo?) |
์ค๋ ์ถฅ์ฃ ? (O-neul chup-jyo?) |
On a different occasion you're traveling in Gangwon-do and talking with your friend on the phone. Your friend asks how the weather is, and it's snowy. |
Do you remember how to say "snow" in Korean? |
๋ (nun) |
๋ (nun) |
Respond to your friend and say it's snowing. |
๋ ์จ ์ด๋์? (Nal-ssi eo-ttae-yo?) |
๋์ด ์์. (Nun-i wa-yo.) |
Listen again and repeat. |
๋์ด ์์. (Nun-i wa-yo.) |
๋์ด ์์. (Nun-i wa-yo.) |
Well done! This is the end of the lesson and the Can Talk About the Weather unit of this course. |
Remember, these Can Do lessons are about learning practical language skills. |
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