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INTRODUCTION
Eric: Hi everyone, I'm Eric.
Lyn: And I'm Lyn.
Eric: And welcome to Must-Know Korean Sentence Structures, Season 1, Lesson 5. Using Adjectives to Describe.
Eric: In this lesson, you'll learn how to use a sentence pattern for describing something using an adjective.
PATTERN
Eric: For example,
Eric: "The book is boring."
Lyn: ๊ทธ ์ฑ…์€ ์ง€๋ฃจํ•ด์š”. (geu chaegeun jiruhaeyo.)
Lyn: [slow] ๊ทธ ์ฑ…์€ ์ง€๋ฃจํ•ด์š”. (geu chaegeun jiruhaeyo.)
Eric: The pattern for describing something using an adjective has 3 elements. First, a phrase, "that book."
Lyn: ๊ทธ ์ฑ… (geu chaek).
Eric: Second, a topic marking particle.
Lyn: ์€ (eun).
Eric: Third, an adjective, "boring."
Lyn: ์ง€๋ฃจํ•ด์š” (jiruhaeyo).
Eric: Altogether, we have.. "The book is boring."
Lyn: ๊ทธ ์ฑ…์€ ์ง€๋ฃจํ•ด์š”. (geu chaegeun jiruhaeyo.) [slow] ๊ทธ ์ฑ…์€ ์ง€๋ฃจํ•ด์š”. (geu chaegeun jiruhaeyo.) [normal] ๊ทธ ์ฑ…์€ ์ง€๋ฃจํ•ด์š”. (geu chaegeun jiruhaeyo.)
Eric: To be polite in Korean, you can end a sentence with the sentence ending...
Lyn: ์š” (yo)
Eric: But when you use this, make sure to check how the verb-stem ends. If the last syllable of the verb-stem has a vowel which has...
Lyn: ใ… (a) OR ใ…— (o)
Eric: โ€ฆ just addโ€ฆ
Lyn: ์š” (yo)
Eric: after the verb-stem and sayโ€ฆ
Lyn: ๋งŒ๋‚˜์š” (mannayo).
Eric: If the last syllable of the verb-stem doesn't have
Lyn: ใ… (a) or ใ…— (o)...
Eric: you need to add one syllable between the verb-stem and the sentence-ending, which isโ€ฆ
Lyn: ์–ด (eo)
Eric: So together, you can sayโ€ฆ
Lyn: ๋จน์–ด์š” (meogeoyo). ๋จน (meok)
Eric: And thereโ€™s one more. Lyn, can you explain more?
Lyn: If the verb is ํ•˜๋‹ค (hada), for example, ๊ณต๋ถ€ํ•˜๋‹ค (gongbuhada), replace ํ•˜ (ha) with ํ•ด (hae) and add ์š” (yo) as in ๊ณต๋ถ€ํ•ด์š” (gongbuhaeyo).
Lyn: ๊ทธ ์ฑ…์€ ์ง€๋ฃจํ•ด์š”. (geu chaegeun jiruhaeyo.)
Eric: So remember to check the verb-stem when you use the sentence-ending particle...
Lyn: ์š” (yo).
Eric: Here is another example meaning, "The tree is small." First, a phrase, "that tree."
Lyn: ๊ทธ ๋‚˜๋ฌด (geu namu).
Eric: Second, a topic marking particle.
Lyn: ๋Š” (neun).
Eric: Third, an adjective, "small."
Lyn: ์ž‘์•„์š” (jagayo).
Eric: Altogether we have..
Lyn: ๊ทธ ๋‚˜๋ฌด๋Š” ์ž‘์•„์š”. (geu namuneun jagayo.) [slow] ๊ทธ ๋‚˜๋ฌด๋Š” ์ž‘์•„์š”. (geu namuneun jagayo.) [normal] ๊ทธ ๋‚˜๋ฌด๋Š” ์ž‘์•„์š”. (geu namuneun jagayo.)
Eric: "The tree is small."
[pause]
Lyn: ๊ทธ ๋‚˜๋ฌด๋Š” ์ž‘์•„์š”. (geu namuneun jagayo.)
Eric: How do you say - "That apple is delicious." To give you a hint, "delicious" in Korean is..
Lyn: ๋ง›์žˆ์–ด์š” (masisseoyo). [slow] ๋ง›์žˆ์–ด์š” (masisseoyo). [normal] ๋ง›์žˆ์–ด์š” (masisseoyo).
Eric: โ€œThat apple is delicious.โ€
[pause]
Lyn: ๊ทธ ์‚ฌ๊ณผ๋Š” ๋ง›์žˆ์–ด์š”. (geu sagwaneun masisseoyo.) [slow] ๊ทธ ์‚ฌ๊ณผ๋Š” ๋ง›์žˆ์–ด์š”. (geu sagwaneun masisseoyo.) [normal] ๊ทธ ์‚ฌ๊ณผ๋Š” ๋ง›์žˆ์–ด์š”. (geu sagwaneun masisseoyo.)
[pause]
Lyn: ๊ทธ ์‚ฌ๊ณผ๋Š” ๋ง›์žˆ์–ด์š”. (geu sagwaneun masisseoyo.)
REVIEW
Eric: Let's review the sentences from this lesson. I will give you the English equivalent of the phrase and you are responsible for shouting it out loud in Korean. Here we go.
Eric: "The book is boring."
[pause]
Lyn: ๊ทธ ์ฑ…์€ ์ง€๋ฃจํ•ด์š”. (geu chaegeun jiruhaeyo.)
[pause]
Lyn: ๊ทธ ์ฑ…์€ ์ง€๋ฃจํ•ด์š”. (geu chaegeun jiruhaeyo.)
Eric: "The tree is small."
[pause]
Lyn: ๊ทธ ๋‚˜๋ฌด๋Š” ์ž‘์•„์š”. (geu namuneun jagayo.)
[pause]
Lyn: ๊ทธ ๋‚˜๋ฌด๋Š” ์ž‘์•„์š”. (geu namuneun jagayo.)
Eric: "That apple is delicious."
[pause]
Lyn: ๊ทธ ์‚ฌ๊ณผ๋Š” ๋ง›์žˆ์–ด์š”. (geu sagwaneun masisseoyo.)
[pause]
Lyn: ๊ทธ ์‚ฌ๊ณผ๋Š” ๋ง›์žˆ์–ด์š”. (geu sagwaneun masisseoyo.)

Outro

Eric: Okay. That's all for this lesson. You learned a pattern for describing something using an adjective, as in..
Lyn: ๊ทธ ์ฑ…์€ ์ง€๋ฃจํ•ด์š”. (geu chaegeun jiruhaeyo.)
Eric: meaning "The book is boring."
Eric: 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, see you next time!
Lyn: ๊ทธ๋Ÿผ ๋‹ค์Œ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์— ๋งŒ๋‚˜์š”! (Geureom daeum sigane mannayo!).

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