Unit 14

Talking About the Weather

๋‚ ์”จ ํŒŒ์•…ํ•˜๊ธฐ
Talking About the Weather

Lesson

Putting -๋‹ˆ๊นŒ [ni-kka] at the end makes that situation the reason for the following situation.

Examples:

  • ์ผํ•˜๋‹ˆ๊นŒ [il-ha-ni-kka] "Because I'm working,"
  • ์‹ธ๋‹ˆ๊นŒ [ssa-ni-kka] "Because it's cheap,"
  • ๋จธ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์•„ํ”„๋‹ˆ๊นŒ [meo-ri-ga a-peu-ni-kka] "Because my head hurts,"

๋น„๊ฐ€ ์˜ค๋‹ˆ๊นŒ ์ถ”์›Œ์š”. [bi-ga o-ni-kka chu-wo-yo]
It's cold because it's raining.

  • ๋น„๊ฐ€ ์˜ค๋‹ˆ๊นŒ [bi-ga o-ni-kka] means "Because it's raining,"
  • ์ถ”์›Œ์š” [chu-wo-yo] means "It's cold."

๋ˆˆ์ด ์˜ค๋‹ˆ๊นŒ ์˜ˆ๋ป์š”. [nun-i o-ni-kka ye-ppeo-yo]
It's pretty because it's snowing.

  • ๋ˆˆ์ด ์˜ค๋‹ˆ๊นŒ [nun-i o-ni-kka] means "Because it's snowing,"
  • ์˜ˆ๋ป์š” [ye-ppeo-yo] means "It's pretty."

๋ฐ”๋žŒ์ด ๋ถ€๋‹ˆ๊นŒ ์‹œ์›ํ•ด์š”. [ba-ram-i bu-ni-kka si-won-hae-yo]
It's cool because wind is blowing.

  • ๋ฐ”๋žŒ์ด ๋ถ€๋‹ˆ๊นŒ [ba-ram-i bu-ni-kka] means "Because the wind is blowing,"
  • ์‹œ์›ํ•ด์š” [si-won-hae-yo] means "It's cool."

More examples:

์ผํ•˜๋‹ˆ๊นŒ ๋ฐ”๋น ์š”. [il-ha-ni-kka ba-ppa-yo]
I'm busy because I'm working.

์‹ธ๋‹ˆ๊นŒ ์‚ด ๊ฑฐ์˜ˆ์š”. [ssa-ni-kka sal geo-ye-yo]
I'm going to buy it because it's cheap.

๋จธ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์•„ํ”„๋‹ˆ๊นŒ ์‰ด ๊ฑฐ์˜ˆ์š”. [meo-ri-ga a-peu-ni-kka swil geo-ye-yo]
I'm going to rest because I have a headache.

Conversation

  • A: ๋น„๊ฐ€ ์˜ค๋„ค์š”.
    It's raining.
  • B: ๋น„๊ฐ€ ์˜ค๋‹ˆ๊นŒ ์ถ”์›Œ์š”. [bi-ga o-ni-kka chu-wo-yo]
    It's cold because it's raining.
  • A: ๋งž์•„์š”. ์ด๋Ÿฐ ๋‚ ์—๋Š” ๋ถ€์นจ๊ฐœ๋ฅผ ๋จน์–ด์•ผ ํ•ด์š”.
    Yeah, you are right! On days like this, we should eat Korean-style pancakes.
  • B: ์™œ ๋ถ€์นจ๊ฐœ๋ฅผ ๋จน์–ด์š”? [wae bu-chim-gae-reul meo-geo-yo?]
    Why do you eat Korean-style pancakes?
  • A: ๋น—์†Œ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ถ€์นจ๊ฐœ๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“ค ๋•Œ ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๋ž‘ ๋น„์Šทํ•ด์„œ
    They say the sound of rain is similar to the sound when making Korean-style pancakes,
  • A: ๋ถ€์นจ๊ฐœ๋ฅผ ๋จน๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ๋Œ€์š”!
    so that's why people started eating it!
  • A: ๋ถ€์นจ๊ฐœ ๋จน์„๊นŒ์š”?
    Shall we eat Korean-style pancakes?
  • B: ์ข‹์•„์š”. [jo-a-yo]
    Sounds good!
  • A: ๊ทธ๋Ÿผ ๋‚˜๊ฐˆ๊นŒ์š”?
    Shall we go out?

Vocabulary

Korean English
๋ฅ๋‹ค [deop-da] hot
์ถฅ๋‹ค [chup-da] cold
์‹œ์›ํ•˜๋‹ค [si-won-ha-da] cool
๋”ฐ๋œปํ•˜๋‹ค [tta-tteut-ha-da] warm