Learn how to use the sentence pattern "... because..."
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| INTRODUCTION |
| Dana: Hi, everyone. I'm Dana. |
| Jaehwi: And I'm Jaehwi. |
| Dana: And welcome to Must-Know Korean Sentence Structures, Season 1, Lesson 39. Explaining a Reason or Cause. |
| Dana: In this lesson, you'll learn how to use a sentence pattern for explaining the cause or reason for an action or condition. |
| PATTERN |
| Dana: For example, |
| Dana: "I'm tired because of work." |
| Jaehwi: 일 때문에 피곤해요. (il ttaemune pigonhaeyo.) |
| Jaehwi: [slow] 일 때문에 피곤해요. (il ttaemune pigonhaeyo.) |
| Dana: The pattern for explaining the cause or reason for an action or condition has 3 elements. First, “work.” |
| Jaehwi: 일 (il). |
| Dana: Second, “because of.” |
| Jaehwi: 때문에 (ttaemune). |
| Dana: Third, adjective, “tired,” plus sentence ending... |
| Jaehwi: 요 (yo). |
| Jaehwi: 피곤해요. (pigonhaeyo). |
| Dana: All together, we have... "I'm tired because of work." |
| Jaehwi: 일 때문에 피곤해요. (il ttaemune pigonhaeyo.) [slow] 일 때문에 피곤해요. (il ttaemune pigonhaeyo.) [normal] 일 때문에 피곤해요. (il ttaemune pigonhaeyo.) |
| Dana: The phrase… |
| Jaehwi: A 때문에 (ttaemune) B |
| Dana: is used to explain the cause or reason for an action. The cause (A), usually a noun, is followed by… |
| Jaehwi: 때문에 (ttaemune) |
| Dana: “because of,” followed by the action (B), adjective plus polite suffix… |
| Jaehwi: 요 (yo). |
| Dana: If you want to place an entire clause in front of |
| Jaehwi: 때문에 (ttaemune), |
| Dana: you need to switch it into a noun, and you would add... |
| Jaehwi: 기(gi) |
| Dana: to the stem of the word preceding… |
| Jaehwi: 때문에 (ttaemune). ~기 때문에 (gittaemune) |
| Jaehwi: 일 때문에 피곤해요. (il ttaemune pigonhaeyo.) |
| Dana: So remember, |
| Jaehwi, 때문에 (ttaemune) |
| Dana: is used to explain the reason for an action/condition. |
| Dana: Here is another example meaning, "I am busy because of my girlfriend." First, “girlfriend.” |
| Jaehwi: 여자친구 (yeojachingu). |
| Dana: Second, “because of.” |
| Jaehwi: 때문에 (ttaemune). |
| Dana: Third, adjective “busy,” plus sentence ending… |
| Jaehwi: 요 (yo). |
| Jaehwi: 바빠요. (bappayo). |
| Dana: All together we have... |
| Jaehwi: 여자친구 때문에 바빠요. (yeojachingu ttaemune bappayo) [slow] 여자친구 때문에 바빠요. (yeojachingu ttaemune bappayo) [normal] 여자친구 때문에 바빠요. (yeojachingu ttaemune bappayo) |
| Dana: "I am busy because of my girlfriend" |
| [pause] |
| Jaehwi: 여자친구 때문에 바빠요. (yeojachingu ttaemune bappayo) |
| Dana: How do you say - "I go to the hospital because of my sick baby." To give you a hint, "sick baby" is... |
| Jaehwi: 아픈 아기 (apeun agi). [slow] 아픈 아기 (apeun agi). [normal] 아픈 아기 (apeun agi). |
| Dana: "I go to the hospital because of my sick baby." |
| [pause] |
| Jaehwi: 아픈 아기 때문에 병원에 가요. (apeun agi ttaemune byeongwone gayo) [slow] 아픈 아기 때문에 병원에 가요. (apeun agi ttaemune byeongwone gayo) [normal] 아픈 아기 때문에 병원에 가요. (apeun agi ttaemune byeongwone gayo) |
| [pause] |
| Jaehwi: 아픈 아기 때문에 병원에 가요. (apeun agi ttaemune byeongwone gayo) |
| REVIEW |
| Dana: Let's review the sentences from this lesson. I'll tell you the English equivalent of the phrase and you say it in Korean. Here we go. |
| Dana: "I'm tired because of work." |
| [pause] |
| Jaehwi: 일 때문에 피곤해요. (il ttaemune pigonhaeyo.) |
| [pause] |
| Jaehwi: 일 때문에 피곤해요. (il ttaemune pigonhaeyo.) |
| Dana: "I am busy because of my girlfriend" |
| [pause] |
| Jaehwi: 여자친구 때문에 바빠요. (yeojachingu ttaemune bappayo) |
| [pause] |
| Jaehwi: 여자친구 때문에 바빠요. (yeojachingu ttaemune bappayo) |
| Dana: "I go to the hospital because of my sick baby." |
| [pause] |
| Jaehwi: 아픈 아기 때문에 병원에 가요. (apeun agi ttaemune byeongwone gayo) |
| [pause] |
| Jaehwi: 아픈 아기 때문에 병원에 가요. (apeun agi ttaemune byeongwone gayo) |
Outro |
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| Dana: Okay. That's all for this lesson. You learned a pattern for explaining the cause or reason for an action or condition, as in... |
| Jaehwi: 일 때문에 피곤해요. (il ttaemune pigonhaeyo.) |
| Dana: meaning "I'm tired because of work." |
| Dana: You can find more vocab or phrases that go with this sentence pattern in the lesson notes. So please be sure to check them out on KoreanClass101.com. Thanks, everyone, and see you next time! |
| Jaehwi: 그럼 다음 시간에 만나요! (Geureom daeum sigane mannayo!). |
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| Line by Line Audio, Additional Lines |
| 4. 그녀 때문에 화나요. |
| 5. 그녀 때문에 안 화나요. |
| 6. 그녀 때문에 화나요? |
Comments
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Hi Alejandra,
Thanks for posting. '~기 때문에' is used to explain the reason for an action or a state, and can be loosely translated to 'because'.
Example:
너 때문에 행복해. (I'm happy because of you.)
사고 때문에 도로가 막혔다. (There was traffic because of an accident.)
Hope this helped!
Best,
Lyn
Team KoreanClass101.com
hello from Mexico, this lesson was very useful for me. Could you please elaborate a couple of examples using ~기 때문에 (gittaemune)? thank you so much
Hi Uttam,
Thank you for posting. When you use ~때문에, it is used directly after a noun and no particle is attached to the noun, so 여자친구 때문에 바빠요 itself is correct, there are no omitted particles!
Cheers,
Lyn
Team KoreanClass101.com
안녕하세요.
여자친구 때문에 바빠요. I know particles are omitted from time to time but if this was re-written, would it be - 여자친구을 때문에 바빠요.
감사합니다.
Hi Mariel,
Thanks for posting. 을/ㄹ 것이다 and 을/ㄹ 거예요 are essentially the same thing, but the difference is in the formality level, the former is informal and the latter is informal formal. Both express a strong intention to do something in the future.
Hope this was of help!
Best,
Lyn
Team KoreanClass101.com
Can you please explain the conjugation 을/ㄹ 것이다 and 을/ㄹ 거예요?. Or are they the same?