Unit 22
Starting My First Day at Teuida

Lesson
The honorific suffix -(์ด)์ธ์:
- The suffix -์ด์ธ์ (or -์ธ์ when the noun ends in a vowel) is the honorific form of -์ด์์/์์.
- It's used to show respect when referring to or addressing someone else's state, title, or identity.
์ด์ชฝ์ ์ธํด์ด์ธ์. [i-jjo-geun in-teon-i-se-yo]
Over here is the intern.
- ์ด์ชฝ์ [i-jjo-geun] means "Over here"
- ์ธํด์ด์ธ์ [in-teon-i-se-yo] means "S/he is the intern."
์ด์ชฝ์ ๋ํ๋์ด์ธ์. [i-jjo-geun dae-pyo-nim-i-se-yo]
Over here is the CEO.
- ๋ํ [dae-pyo] means "representative"
- ๋ํ๋ [dae-pyo-nim] means "CEO"
- The suffix -๋ shows respect.
ํ์ฅ๋์ด์ธ์? [tim-jang-nim-i-se-yo?]
Are you the team leader?
- ํ์ฅ๋ [tim-jang-nim] means "team leader"
- ___(์ด)์ธ์? [___(i)se-yo?] means "are you?"
Examples:
- ์ ์๋์ด์ธ์. [seon-saeng-nim-i-se-yo] "S/he is a teacher."
- ์ ์๋์ด์ธ์? [seon-saeng-nim-i-se-yo?] "Are you a teacher?" Or "Is s/he a teacher?"
- ๊ฐ์์ธ์. [ga-su-se-yo] "S/he is a singer."
- ๊ฐ์์ธ์? [ga-su-se-yo?] "Are you a singer?" Or "Is s/he a singer?"
์ ๋ถํ๋๋ฆฝ๋๋ค. [jal bu-tak-deu-rim-ni-da]
I look forward to working with you.
- ์ [jal] means "well"
- ๋ถํ๋๋ฆฝ๋๋ค [bu-tak-deu-rim-ni-da] is a formal way of saying "I request" or "I ask for a favor."
- It implies that you're aware of the other person's effort and are grateful in advance.
Conversation
- A: ์ด? ์๋
ํ์ธ์. ์ด๋ฒ์ ์๋ก ๋ค์ด์จ ์ธํด์ด์ธ์?
Oh! Hello! Are you the new intern? - B: ๋ค, ์ ๋ถํ๋๋ฆฝ๋๋ค. [ne, jal bu-tak-deu-rim-ni-da]
Yes, I look forward to working with you. - A: ์ ๋ ์ ๋ถํ๋๋ฆฝ๋๋ค.
I look forward to working with you too.
- A: ์ด์ชฝ์ ์ด๋ฒ์ ์๋ก ๋ค์ด์จ ์ธํด์ด์ธ์.
Here's the new intern who just joined. - B: ์ ๋ถํ๋๋ฆฝ๋๋ค. [jal bu-tak-deu-rim-ni-da]
I look forward to working with you. - A: ์ด์ชฝ์ ๋ํ๋์ด์ธ์.
Over here is our CEO. - C: ์ ์ผ๋ง๋ก ์ ๋ถํ๋๋ฆฝ๋๋ค.
Likewise, I look forward to working with you. - C: ์์ผ๋ก ๊ฐํ์ฅ์ด๋ ๊ฐ์ด ์ ํด๋ด์.
Work well with Manager Kang from now on. - B: ํ์ฅ๋์ด์ธ์? [tim-jang-nim-i-se-yo?]
Are you the team leader? - A: ๋ค! ์์ผ๋ก ์ฆ๊ฒ๊ฒ ์ผํด ๋ด์!
Yes! Let's enjoy working together!
Vocabulary
| Korean | English |
|---|---|
| ์ธํด [in-teon] | intern |
| ์ง์ [ji-gwon] | employee |
| ํ์ฅ [tim-jang] | team leader |
| ๋ํ [dae-pyo] | CEO |