Learn how to discuss your well-being
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| Hi everyone! Welcome to the Korean Whiteboard lesson. |
| “My name is K-Jin.” |
| 안녕하세요, 케이진입니다. |
| (Annyeonghaseyo, keijin-ibnida.) |
| In this lesson, you'll learn how to talk about your well-being in Korean. Let's get started! |
| So if you know how to say "Yes, I've been well," you want to know how to say other words, like, "Oh! I've been so-so" or "No, I haven't been well." So you only need to know these four words. |
| First, 잘 (jal), that's what we just learned here. |
| 잘 (jal) |
| It means "well." |
| 잘 (jal) |
| 아주 잘 (aju jal) |
| It means "very well." |
| 아주 (aju) means "very." |
| 아주 잘 (aju jal) "very well." |
| Next, |
| 그냥 그렇게 (geu-nyang geu-reot-ge) |
| It means "so-so." |
| 그냥 (geu-nyang) means "just" and 그렇게 (geu-reot-ge) means "like that." |
| So it literally means "just like that"; in English, it's like "so-so." |
| 그냥 그렇게 (geu-nyang geu-reot-ge) |
| Next, we have... |
| 잘 못 (jal mot) |
| We just learned 잘 (jal) here, right? It's "well." |
| 못 (mot) means "not," so 잘 못 (jal mot), it means "not well." |
| 잘 못 (jal mot) |
| Okay, so let's look at the dialogue. |
| 잘 지냈어요 (Jal ji-naess-eo-yo)? |
| 네, 잘 지냈어요 (Ne, jal ji-naess-eo-yo). |
| Listen one more time. |
| 잘 지냈어요 (Jal ji-naess-eo-yo)? |
| 네, 잘 지냈어요 (Ne, jal ji-naess-eo-yo). |
| It's a very common way to ask "have you been well?" |
| 잘 지냈어요 (Jal ji-naess-eo-yo)? |
| "Have you been well?" So it's like "how are you?" or "how have you been?" |
| 잘 지냈어요 (Jal ji-naess-eo-yo)? |
| And the answer would be |
| "Yes, I've been well." |
| 네, 잘 지냈어요 (Ne, jal ji-naess-eo-yo). |
| "Yes, I've been well," "I'm fine," "I'm doing great." |
| 네, 잘 지냈어요 (Ne, jal ji-naess-eo-yo). |
| So this is a really common way to say "how have you been?" |
| There is another way to ask "how are you," which is |
| 잘 지내요 (Jal ji-nae-yo)? |
| This one is like "How are you?" So the person is asking your current status. |
| This one is asking "How have you been?" So your past. |
| 잘 지냈어요 (Jal ji-naess-eo-yo)? |
| 잘 지내요 (Jal ji-nae-yo)? |
| And as you can see here, you can see 요 (yo) at the end of the sentence, 요 (yo) make the sentence polite. So if you want to say this sentence to your friends or someone who you are very close to or someone who is younger than you, you probably will omit 요 (yo) here, like this and ask: |
| 잘 지냈어 (Jal ji-naess-eo)? Or 잘 지내 (Jal ji-nae)? |
| The answer will be... |
| 응, 잘 지냈어 (eung, jal ji-naess-eo), without 요 (yo). |
| The answer will be... |
| 응, 잘 지내 (eung, hal ji-nae) |
| So this is how you ask your well-being, how you ask well-being to other people in Korean. |
| So let's look at the examples. |
| First we have... |
| 네, 잘 지냈어요 (Ne, jal ji-naess-eo-yo). |
| This is what we learned in the dialogue today, right? So "yes, I have been well." |
| 네 (ne), "yes"; 잘 (jal) means "well"; 지냈어요 (ji-naess-eo-yo) "I spent" or "I have been." |
| "Yes, I have been well." |
| How about this? |
| 네, 아주 잘 지냈어요 (Ne, a-ju jal ji-naess-eo-yo). |
| So we put this 아주 잘 (aju jal) here, so 아주 잘 지냈어요 (a-ju jal ji-naess-eo-yo). |
| "yes, I have been very well." |
| 네, 아주 잘 지냈어요 (Ne, a-ju jal ji-naess-eo-yo). |
| How about this? |
| 아니요, 그냥 그렇게 지냈어요 (A-ni-yo, geu-nyang geu-reot-ge ji-naess-eo-yo). |
| "No, I've been so-so." |
| 아니요, 그냥 그렇게 지냈어요 (A-ni-yo, geu-nyang geu-reot-ge ji-naess-eo-yo). |
| So 아니요 (a-ni-yo) means "no"; 그냥 (geu-nyang) means "just" and 그렇게 (geu-reot-ge) means "like that." |
| So "just like that"; "I've been just like that," so it's "I've been so-so." |
| Or, it wasn't so good but it wasn't really bad but it wasn't... so-so, it wasn't good so it's like "I've been so-so." |
| How about this? |
| 아니요, 잘 못 지냈어요 (A-ni-yo, jal mot ji-naess-eo-yo). |
| "No, I have not been well." |
| 아니요, 잘 못 지냈어요 (A-ni-yo, jal mot ji-naess-eo-yo). |
| So when someone asks you "how are you, "how have you been," you can answer this way, so you can choose one of them and answer. |
| 네, 잘 지냈어요 (Ne, jal ji-naess-eo-yo). |
| Or, |
| 아니요, 그냥 그렇게 지냈어요 (A-ni-yo, geu-nyang geu-reot-ge ji-naess-eo-yo). |
| Okay, so how can you use this vocabulary in the sentence pattern? So let's look at the pattern first. |
| 네 (ne) or 아니요 (a-ni-yo); [ADVERB] that we just learned here, and 지냈어요 (jinaess-eoyo). |
| So 네 (ne) means "Yes"; 아니요 (a-ni-yo) means "no." I've been [ADVERB]. |
| So 지냈어요 (ji-naess-eo-yo) literally means "spent," it's the past form of spend, which is 지내다 (ji-nae-da). |
| 지내다 (ji-nae-da) |
| So you're talking about your past, "No, I haven't been well" "Yes, I've been well." So it means spent or passed, past, so in English, it will be more like "I have been." |
| And an adverb, you just need to put this adverb here. |
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