Unit 14
Talking About the Weather

Lesson
Putting -๋๊น [ni-kka] at the end makes that situation the reason for the following situation.
Examples:
- ์ผํ๋๊น [il-ha-ni-kka] "Because I'm working,"
- ์ธ๋๊น [ssa-ni-kka] "Because it's cheap,"
- ๋จธ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ์ํ๋๊น [meo-ri-ga a-peu-ni-kka] "Because my head hurts,"
๋น๊ฐ ์ค๋๊น ์ถ์์. [bi-ga o-ni-kka chu-wo-yo]
It's cold because it's raining.
- ๋น๊ฐ ์ค๋๊น [bi-ga o-ni-kka] means "Because it's raining,"
- ์ถ์์ [chu-wo-yo] means "It's cold."
๋์ด ์ค๋๊น ์๋ป์. [nun-i o-ni-kka ye-ppeo-yo]
It's pretty because it's snowing.
- ๋์ด ์ค๋๊น [nun-i o-ni-kka] means "Because it's snowing,"
- ์๋ป์ [ye-ppeo-yo] means "It's pretty."
๋ฐ๋์ด ๋ถ๋๊น ์์ํด์. [ba-ram-i bu-ni-kka si-won-hae-yo]
It's cool because wind is blowing.
- ๋ฐ๋์ด ๋ถ๋๊น [ba-ram-i bu-ni-kka] means "Because the wind is blowing,"
- ์์ํด์ [si-won-hae-yo] means "It's cool."
More examples:
์ผํ๋๊น ๋ฐ๋น ์. [il-ha-ni-kka ba-ppa-yo]
I'm busy because I'm working.
์ธ๋๊น ์ด ๊ฑฐ์์. [ssa-ni-kka sal geo-ye-yo]
I'm going to buy it because it's cheap.
๋จธ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ์ํ๋๊น ์ด ๊ฑฐ์์. [meo-ri-ga a-peu-ni-kka swil geo-ye-yo]
I'm going to rest because I have a headache.
Conversation
- A: ๋น๊ฐ ์ค๋ค์.
It's raining. - B: ๋น๊ฐ ์ค๋๊น ์ถ์์. [bi-ga o-ni-kka chu-wo-yo]
It's cold because it's raining. - A: ๋ง์์. ์ด๋ฐ ๋ ์๋ ๋ถ์นจ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ๋จน์ด์ผ ํด์.
Yeah, you are right! On days like this, we should eat Korean-style pancakes. - B: ์ ๋ถ์นจ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ๋จน์ด์? [wae bu-chim-gae-reul meo-geo-yo?]
Why do you eat Korean-style pancakes? - A: ๋น์๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๋ถ์นจ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ๋ง๋ค ๋ ์๋ฆฌ๋ ๋น์ทํด์
They say the sound of rain is similar to the sound when making Korean-style pancakes, - A: ๋ถ์นจ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ๋จน๊ธฐ ์์ํ๋์!
so that's why people started eating it! - A: ๋ถ์นจ๊ฐ ๋จน์๊น์?
Shall we eat Korean-style pancakes? - B: ์ข์์. [jo-a-yo]
Sounds good! - A: ๊ทธ๋ผ ๋๊ฐ๊น์?
Shall we go out?
Vocabulary
| Korean | English |
|---|---|
| ๋ฅ๋ค [deop-da] | hot |
| ์ถฅ๋ค [chup-da] | cold |
| ์์ํ๋ค [si-won-ha-da] | cool |
| ๋ฐ๋ปํ๋ค [tta-tteut-ha-da] | warm |
