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Express Reason in Korean: Because Im Worried!

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Korean Hangul
Romanization
English
Vocabulary
Grammar Points

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Korean Hangul

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.
... ?
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, .
, .
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Romanization
jinyeong
minsu
jinyeong

minsu
jinyeong
minsu
jinyeong
minsu
jinyeong
minsu

a... eotteoke haji?

wae geurae?
uri samusil-eseo albasaeng-eul han myeong ppopneunde, yeol
myeong-i jiwonhaetgeodeun.
geurae? geunde wae?
geu jung-e han myeong-i nae sachon dongsaeng-igeodeun.
ppoba jugo sipeunde, geokjeong-iya.
sachon dongsaeng-i .... il-eun jal hal geot gata?
geuge geokjeong-iya... il-eun... byeollo jal mot hal geot
gatgeodeun.
pal-eun an-euro gupneundago hajiman, il-eul mot ha myeon
poppeumyeon an doeji.
nado geureoke saenggak-haneunde, jigeum sachon dongsaeng-i
don-i kkok piryohageodeun.
geurae? jeongmal eoryeopguna.

English
Jinyeong

Argh...what should I do?

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Minsu
Jinyeong
Minsu
Jinyeong
Minsu
Jinyeong
Minsu
Jinyeong
Minsu

What's wrong?
Our office is hiring a part-timer and ten people applied.
Really? So what's wrong?
One of them is my cousin. I want to hire her...but I'm worried.
Your cousin...do you think she's going to be good on the job?
That's what worries me. Work-wise...I don't think she's going to
be good.
They say that charity begins at home but you shouldn't hire her if
she's not good.
I think so, too, but right now my cousin really needs some money.
Oh, does she? It's really difficult.

Vocabulary

Hangul

Romanization
albasaeng
ppopda
jiwonhada
sachon dongsaeng
geokjeong
pal
an
gupda
kkok
piryohada
eoryeopda

English
part-timer
to choose, to hire
to apply
(younger) cousin
worry, concern
arm
inside
to bend, to be bent
surely, certainly, absolutely
to need, to be necessary
to be hard, to be difficult

Vocabulary Sample Sentences

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"We need one more part-timer."

"We didn't hire anyone last year."
"Were there a lot of applicants?"
"My cousin is getting married soon."
"I'm worried it might rain tomorrow."
"I injured my arm in a car accident."
"Please come inside."
"The iron bar is bent."
"Please come to my birthday."

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"I need it badly."

"This problem is too difficult."

Grammar Points
The Focus of This Lesson Is Learning How to Express a Reason Why You're Doing
Something.
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"One of them is my cousin."
When describing a situation or talking about something that happened, rather than using the
same plain sentence ending over and over again, Korean people like to use various sentence
endings to add flavor to their sentences and also to specify the purpose of their sentences.
One of them is -() (-geodeun(yo)).
We use -() (-geodeun(yo)) to express a reason or to describe a fact. When we end a
sentence with - (-geodeun(yo)), Korean people take it as an explanation for something
or expect that there's an additional explanation following. We can add the - (yo) at the end
to make the sentence polite, and we can drop it to make the sentence intimate.
Formation

I. Present Tense
Verb stem + ()
For Example:
1. (gada) - "to go"
Verb stem = (ga)
+ () = ()
II. Past Tense
Verb stem + // + ()

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For Example:
1. (gada) - "to go"
+ // + () = ()
III. Future Tense
Verb stem + + ()
For Example:
1. (gada) - "to go"
+ + () = ()
Sample Sentences
Korean

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Romanization
"English"
eoje chingu
"(because) I met a
mannatgeodeunyo. friend yesterday" or "I
met a friend yesterday
(and...)"
. yojeum
"(because) I'm busy
bappeugeodeunyo. these days" or "I'm
busy these days (so...)"

yeogi-neun
"(because) it's
.
bissageodeunyo.
expensive here" or "it's
expensive here (so...)"
Examples From This Dialogue
Korean


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Romanization
uri samusil-eseo
albasaeng-eul han
myeong
ppopneunde, yeol
myeong-i

"English"
"Our office is hiring
a part-timer, and
ten people
applied."

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jiwonhaetgeodeun.
geu jung-e han
"One of them is my
myeong-i nae
cousin."
sachon
dongsaeng-igeodeun
.
... il-eun... byeollo jal "Work-wise...I
.
mot hal geot
don't think she's
gatgeodeun.
going to be good."

jigeum sachon
"Right now, my
. dongsaeng-i don-i cousin really
kkok
needs some
piryohageodeun.
money."

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The Phrase of The Lesson

The phrase of the lesson is (pal-eun an-euro gupneunda). This literally

means that an arm is bent inward, not outward. So this phrase implies that when you do
something, even if you try to be fair, you naturally tend to think and act in the best interests of
those you're close to. So we can use this phrase to describe a person or a situation where
the person is not or cannot be very fair to everyone because he or she has a close
relationship with someone among the people. For example, if two people are arguing over
something and one person is your family member, and therefore you're naturally on that
person's side, you could describe the situation as .

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