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I Heard That We Have Competition in Korea!

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Korean Hangul
Romanization
English
Vocabulary
Grammar Points

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Korean Hangul

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Romanization
jeongmin
jisu
jeongmin

jisu
jeongmin
jisu
jeongmin
jisu
jeongmin

jisu ssi, sosik deureosseoyo?

museun sosik-iyo?
gil geonneopyeon-e uri kape-rang biseutan kape-ga
saenggyeotdaeyo!
jeongmal-yo?
ireum-do biseuthago, bunwigi-do biseuthago, menyu-do
biseuthadaeyo!
ga bwasseoyo?
aniyo. ajik an ga bwatneunde... jeon-e uri kape-eseo ilhaetdeon,
minsu-ga mandeureotdaeyo!
ne?? jeongmalyo? uri-hanteneun kape mandeunda-neun yaeki
an haetjanayo?
ne... eotteoke minsu-ga ireoke dwitongsu-reul chil su itjyo?

English
Jeongmin
Jisu
Jeongmin

Jisu, did you hear the news?

What news?
I heard that someone made a cafe similar to our cafe across the
street.

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Jisu
Jeongmin

Really?
I heard that the name is similar, the atmosphere is similar, and
the menu is similar, too!
Have you been there already?
No, I haven't been there yet...but I heard that Minsu, who used to
work in our cafe, made that one.
What? Really? He didn't tell us that he was making a cafe, did
he?
No, he didn't...how could he betray us like this?

Jisu
Jeongmin
Jisu
Jeongmin

Hangul

Vocabulary
Romanization
sosik
geoneopyeon
biseuthada
saenggida
bunwigi
mandeulda
dwitongsu
chida

English
news
opposite side
to be similar
to come into existence
atmosphere
to make
the back of the head
to hit, to beat

Vocabulary Sample Sentences

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.
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"I have good news."

"Not there... We're on the opposite side."
"The colors are similar."
"We've got a problem."
"Let's go somewhere nice and have dinner."
"What are you making?"
"The back of your head is very pretty."
"Why did you hit me as you were passing by?"

Grammar Points
The Focus of This Lesson Is Saying "I heard that..."/"They say that..." - (daeyo)

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"I heard that Minsu made it."
When you want to tell someone something that you heard or something that another person
said, you use this grammatical structure, - (daeyo). This is in the standard politeness
level, so you can just drop the (yo) at the end to speak more informally. This structure is
translated as "I heard that..." or "They say that..."
- (daeyo) originally comes from - () (-dago (mal)haeyo), and for the present
tense you add and make it - (-ndaeyo), and for the past tense, you add // and
make it -// (-at/eot/yeotdaeyo). But with nouns, however, since the original form of
the reported speech is [ noun + -() () ], you use the -() ((i)rago) part and
change it to -() ((i)raeyo) instead of - (daeyo). And this is applied to the future
tense, too, because the word - (geo) in the future tense ending -/ (l/eul
geo-yeyo) is a noun as well.
Construction

1. (haksaeng) "student"
. (haksaeng-iraeyo) "I heard he was a student."/"They say he's a student."
2. (gada) "to go"
. (gandaeyo) "They say they are going."/"He says he's leaving."
. (gal geo-raeyo) "They say they will go."/"He says he will go."
. (gatdaeyo) "I heard that they went there."/"He says that he went there."
For Example:
Korean
.

"English"
"They say that this is
the last one."
.
"I heard that it's
going to rain
tomorrow."
. nyuyok-eneun nun "I heard that it
watdaeyo.
snowed in New
York."

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Romanization
ige
majimak-iraeyo.
naeil bi ondaeyo.

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Examples From This Dialogue

Korean


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Romanization
"English"
gil
"I heard that
geonneopyeon-e someone made a
uri kape-rang
cafe similar to our
biseutan kape-ga cafe across the
saenggyeotdaeyo! street."
,
ireum-do
"I heard that the
, biseuthago,
name is similar, the
! bunwigi-do
atmosphere is
biseuthago,
similar, and the
menyu-do
menu is similar
biseuthadaeyo!
too!"
jeon-e uri
"I heard that Minsu,
,
kape-eseo
who used to work in
!
ilhaetdeon,
our cafe, made that
minsu-ga
one."
mandeureotdaeyo!
The Phrase of the Lesson

The phrase of the lesson is (dwitongsu-reul chida). This phrase literally

means "to hit someone on the back of the head." Imagine a situation where someone turns
around and walks away, and then you go up to the person and hit him or her on the back of
the head. The person who is hit on the back of the head would have turned around,
unsuspicious of the other person, and then suddenly feel betrayed. Therefore, the phrase
(dwitongsu-reul chida) has the meaning of "to betray someone," but with a
slightly light nuance to it, or the meaning of "to not do something that one was naturally
expected to do." Since the verb (chida) means "to hit" or "to beat," if you replace (
chida) with (matda), which means "to be hit," the phrase makes a passive sentence.
For Example:
Korean

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Romanization
"English"
najung-e
"Don't betray me
dwitongsu chiji ma. later."

geu saram

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"He might betray you

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twitongsu chiljido
moreunikka
josimhae.
ireoke dwitongsu
majeul jul
mollasseo.

so be careful."
"I didn't know I would
be betrayed like
this."

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