"Now you've learned how to say a profession in Korean. What job names would you like to know in Korean?" :)

Hello Amy,

Shaman = 주술사

Enjoy your study and feel free to let us know if you have any inquiries!

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Hyeon Yeong Seo

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uhhh...what is a shaman??

Hello Jason,

Thank you very much for a great explanation! 👍

Keep up the good work!

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Hyeon Yeong Seo

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To answer 단's question, the reason the sentence is 경찰이요 is because rather than saying "(he) is a police officer?", which would be "경찰이에요?", he's just asking "A police officer?". If they weren't being polite, the sentence would just be "경찰?", but since they're speaking in polite Korean, he would add a 요, making "경찰요?", but since 경찰 ends in a consonant, it's a little hard to say, so you add 이 to make it a bit easier, thus "경찰이요?". A similar sentence that makes it easier to see we're not using a form of 이다 is "간호사요?", where it's literally just 간호사 + 요.

Hi 단,

Thanks for posting. 'Is a police officer' is written as '경찰이다', and to make it polite, it becomes -->'경찰이에요'

Remember, for words that end with vowels you use 예요, and for words that end with consonants 이에요.

Cheers,

Lyn

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안녕하새요!

I want to know why this sentence 경찰이요? adds 이 after 경찰?

Shouldn't it be just 경찰요? or 경찰이예요?

Hi Sophia,

Thank you for commenting. While there are lessons you have to pay for, there are also many free lessons available on our website--you get access to the first three lessons for every series (and we have quite a bit), and access to newly updated lessons (when they have been updated). So please try to make use of the lessons available!

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Lyn

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I wish its free for me :(

Hi Gregoire,

When you first introduce someone, you need to be specific about who this person is, and you use i/ga. Afterward you use eun/neun.

Example: This is my mom: (이 분이) 제 어머니세요. -->first introduction, so 'i'

제 어머니는 주부세요. -->My mom is a housewife. -->already know whose mom, so we use 'neun'.

Hi Patricie,

Thanks for posting. Some ways to say the phrases would be:

"What goes around, comes around." -->주는대로 받는다./뿌린대로 거둔다.

"You get what you think about." --->생각한대로 받게 된다.

Cheers,

Lyn

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Hallo there!

I've been learning with you for a couple of months now, but still I'm not able to translate this:

"What goes around, comes around."

and

"You get what you think about."

Can you please help me out with the translation?

Thank you a lot.

Patricie

For Lyn,

I thought introducing the mum entailed saying "eomeoniga" or "eommaga" first then say "eomonineun" or "eommaneun" later.

Hi Gregoire,

Thanks for posting. As they already introduced 'mom' in sentence, she is referred to more 'generally', which is why 은/는 was used.

As for the sister, Miseon has a sister (who is a nurse) so you can see that there is one son and two daughters mentioned in this family.

Hope this was of help.

Best,

Lyn

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Under "VOCAB PHRASE AND USAGE."

Keith: But her brother is actually not a 회사원, right? What does he do?

Minkyong: He is a 경찰.

Keith: A police officer and how about his sister? ***>(her sister/sister of Miseon)

6/13/20

Does the ~i/~ga vs. ~eun/~neun rule still apply in conversations or more with formal writing/essays?

Just when I thought I was getting it, I noticed in the dialogue, i or ga was not used at all. Right away, eun or neun.

"A: Miseon ssi, eomeoni-neun mwo haseyo?

B: eomma-neun jubuyeyo.

A: a... abeoji-neun mwo haseyo?

B: appa-neun heosawon-ieyo."

Hi Carol Holaday!

Thank you for your comment! I'm glad you enjoyed this lesson :innocent:

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Engla

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Such a cute lesson. I loved it.

Hey Sammy-Joe

안녕하세요!

뭐 하세요 has two meanings.

At first what you said, asking someone what they do as job.

It's like in English as "What do you do?"

Second meaning, "What are you doing?"

and "지금" means "now"

so, What are you doing now? -> 지금 뭐해요?

in this case, not asking job, asking the other's doing or acting.

It's polite and you can distinguish two different meaning in context.

and 안녕해요? is correct theoretically but nobody says.

When you say hello just say 안녕하세요!

Thank you

Min Jung

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Hey David,

Thank you for your good question and you could definitely use it that way!

The reason because 경찰,회사원 were added with -이에요 is because it has the batchim (last consonant).

And it makes it easier to understand how the batchim rule applies if we have all as in -이에요.

예요 is basically shortened version of 이에요 as well so either one will work fine!:)

Thank you

Madison

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Instead of saying 주부예요., can we just say 주부이에요 because i see some other sentence in this lesson use 이에요 too. For example, 경찰이에요. or 회사원이에요. If they are not the same thing, so when do we use for each specific cases?

Thanks

안녕하세요.

Another lessen, another question :)

In this lesson when asking someone what they do as job 뭐 하세요 is used.

The translation in this lesson was: What are you doing / What do you do?

In a previous lesson the same kind of question was asked.

지 금 뭐 해효? -> What are you doing now?

I was wondering what the difference is between those two ways of asking.

Is one more polite? Or are they used in different context?

Thank you for your time.

P.s. If they mean the same could you then theoretically say 안녕해요?