Unit 22

Starting My First Day at Teuida

ํŠธ์ด๋‹ค ์ฒซ ์ถœ๊ทผํ•˜๊ธฐ
Starting My First Day at Teuida

Lesson

The honorific suffix -(์ด)์„ธ์š”:

  • The suffix -์ด์„ธ์š” (or -์„ธ์š” when the noun ends in a vowel) is the honorific form of -์ด์—์š”/์˜ˆ์š”.
  • It's used to show respect when referring to or addressing someone else's state, title, or identity.

์ด์ชฝ์€ ์ธํ„ด์ด์„ธ์š”. [i-jjo-geun in-teon-i-se-yo]
Over here is the intern.

  • ์ด์ชฝ์€ [i-jjo-geun] means "Over here"
  • ์ธํ„ด์ด์„ธ์š” [in-teon-i-se-yo] means "S/he is the intern."

์ด์ชฝ์€ ๋Œ€ํ‘œ๋‹˜์ด์„ธ์š”. [i-jjo-geun dae-pyo-nim-i-se-yo]
Over here is the CEO.

  • ๋Œ€ํ‘œ [dae-pyo] means "representative"
  • ๋Œ€ํ‘œ๋‹˜ [dae-pyo-nim] means "CEO"
  • The suffix -๋‹˜ shows respect.

ํŒ€์žฅ๋‹˜์ด์„ธ์š”? [tim-jang-nim-i-se-yo?]
Are you the team leader?

  • ํŒ€์žฅ๋‹˜ [tim-jang-nim] means "team leader"
  • ___(์ด)์„ธ์š”? [___(i)se-yo?] means "are you?"

Examples:

  • ์„ ์ƒ๋‹˜์ด์„ธ์š”. [seon-saeng-nim-i-se-yo] "S/he is a teacher."
  • ์„ ์ƒ๋‹˜์ด์„ธ์š”? [seon-saeng-nim-i-se-yo?] "Are you a teacher?" Or "Is s/he a teacher?"
  • ๊ฐ€์ˆ˜์„ธ์š”. [ga-su-se-yo] "S/he is a singer."
  • ๊ฐ€์ˆ˜์„ธ์š”? [ga-su-se-yo?] "Are you a singer?" Or "Is s/he a singer?"

์ž˜ ๋ถ€ํƒ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. [jal bu-tak-deu-rim-ni-da]
I look forward to working with you.

  • ์ž˜ [jal] means "well"
  • ๋ถ€ํƒ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค [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? ์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์„ธ์š”. ์ด๋ฒˆ์— ์ƒˆ๋กœ ๋“ค์–ด์˜จ ์ธํ„ด์ด์„ธ์š”?
    Oh! Hello! Are you the new intern?
  • B: ๋„ค, ์ž˜ ๋ถ€ํƒ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. [ne, jal bu-tak-deu-rim-ni-da]
    Yes, I look forward to working with you.
  • A: ์ €๋„ ์ž˜ ๋ถ€ํƒ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    I look forward to working with you too.
  • A: ์ด์ชฝ์€ ์ด๋ฒˆ์— ์ƒˆ๋กœ ๋“ค์–ด์˜จ ์ธํ„ด์ด์„ธ์š”.
    Here's the new intern who just joined.
  • B: ์ž˜ ๋ถ€ํƒ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. [jal bu-tak-deu-rim-ni-da]
    I look forward to working with you.
  • A: ์ด์ชฝ์€ ๋Œ€ํ‘œ๋‹˜์ด์„ธ์š”.
    Over here is our CEO.
  • C: ์ €์•ผ๋ง๋กœ ์ž˜ ๋ถ€ํƒ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    Likewise, I look forward to working with you.
  • C: ์•ž์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ•ํŒ€์žฅ์ด๋ž‘ ๊ฐ™์ด ์ž˜ ํ•ด๋ด์š”.
    Work well with Manager Kang from now on.
  • B: ํŒ€์žฅ๋‹˜์ด์„ธ์š”? [tim-jang-nim-i-se-yo?]
    Are you the team leader?
  • A: ๋„ค! ์•ž์œผ๋กœ ์ฆ๊ฒ๊ฒŒ ์ผํ•ด ๋ด์š”!
    Yes! Let's enjoy working together!

Vocabulary

Korean English
์ธํ„ด [in-teon] intern
์ง์› [ji-gwon] employee
ํŒ€์žฅ [tim-jang] team leader
๋Œ€ํ‘œ [dae-pyo] CEO