So when I say
나보다 더 천천히 먹는 사람이 없는 줄 알았어.
it means "I thought there was no one who eats slower than I do."
Now if I want to say "I knew there was no one who eats slower than I do." how do I say that
kyuree wrote:Hello, I'm sure someone can help me with this...
So when I say
나보다 더 천천히 먹는 사람이 없는 줄 알았어.
it means "I thought there was no one who eats slower than I do."
Now if I want to say "I knew there was no one who eats slower than I do." how do I say that
javiskefka wrote:kyuree wrote:Hello, I'm sure someone can help me with this...
So when I say
나보다 더 천천히 먹는 사람이 없는 줄 알았어.
it means "I thought there was no one who eats slower than I do."
Now if I want to say "I knew there was no one who eats slower than I do." how do I say that
The way you constructed it, it means that you held a belief that turned out to be false.
If, in fact there is is no one who eats slower than you, and you knew it, then you would say:
나보다 더 천천히 먹는 사람이 없는 걸 알았어.
kyuree wrote:If, in fact there is is no one who eats slower than you, and you knew it, then you would say:
나보다 더 천천히 먹는 사람이 없는 걸 알았어.
hmm... so the only difference is the 줄 or 걸??!
javiskefka wrote:kyuree wrote:If, in fact there is is no one who eats slower than you, and you knew it, then you would say:
나보다 더 천천히 먹는 사람이 없는 걸 알았어.
hmm... so the only difference is the 줄 or 걸??!
Heh, don't worry, while I can't think of any other case where that 줄 is used (besides the negative of that same construction), that 걸 is actually a contraction for 것을, and you can use that in a lot of other contexts.
That's "...사람이 없는 것을 알았어요."
A verb stem plus -는 것 means "the fact that [verb]" or just "that [verb]". One common example of this in everyday speech is "뭘 하는 거야?" - "What is it that you're doing?" or "어디 가는 거야?" - "Where is it that you're going".
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