Unit 16

Starting my first day at Teuida

ํŠธ์ด๋‹ค ์ฒซ ์ถœ๊ทผํ•˜๊ธฐ
Starting my first day at Teuida

Lesson

Difference between ์ œ๊ฐ€ and ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ meaning "I":

  • ์ œ๊ฐ€ [je-ga] - Formal, polite. Used with elders, superiors, strangers. Humble, respectful tone.
  • ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ [nae-ga] - Informal, casual. Used with friends, peers, close relations. Familiar, casual tone.

The ending -๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค:

  • The ending -๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค [get-seum-ni-da] is used to politely say, "I will..." or "I am determined to..." in formal situations.

์ œ๊ฐ€ ํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. [je-ga ha-get-seum-ni-da]
I'll do it.

  • ํ•˜๋‹ค [ha-da] means "to do"
  • ํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค [ha-get-seum-ni-da]

์ œ๊ฐ€ ์‚ฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. [je-ga sa-get-seum-ni-da]
I'll buy it.

  • ์‚ฌ๋‹ค [sa-da] means "to buy"
  • ์‚ฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค [sa-get-seum-ni-da]

์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋•๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. [je-ga dop-get-seum-ni-da]
I'll help.

  • ๋•๋‹ค [dop-da] means "to help"
  • ๋•๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค [dop-get-seum-ni-da]

์ œ๊ฐ€ ์ •๋ฆฌํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. [je-ga jeong-ni-ha-get-seum-ni-da]
I'll organize it.

  • ์ •๋ฆฌํ•˜๋‹ค [jeong-ni-ha-da] means "to organize"
  • ์ •๋ฆฌํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค [jeong-ni-ha-get-seum-ni-da]

Conversation

  • A: ์ด๊ฑฐ ๋ˆ„๊ฐ€ ํ•˜์‹ค๋ž˜์š”?
    Who would like to do this?
  • B: ์ œ๊ฐ€ ํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. [je-ga ha-get-seum-ni-da]
    I'll do it.
  • A: ๊ทธ๋Ÿผ ๋ถ€ํƒ ๋“œ๋ฆด๊ฒŒ์š”.
    Then I'll leave it to you.
  • A: ์ปคํ”ผ ๋“œ์‹œ๊ฒ ์–ด์š”?
    Would you like some coffee?
  • B: ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์‚ฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. [je-ga sa-get-seum-ni-da]
    I'll buy it.
  • A: ์•„๋‹ˆ์—์š”, ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์‚ฌ์˜ค๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    No, I'll go get it.
  • B: ๊ฐ™์ด ๊ฐ€๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. [ga-chi ga-get-seum-ni-da]
    I'll go with you.
  • A: ์ข‹์•„์š”! ๊ฐ™์ด ๊ฐ€์š”.
    Great! Let's go together.

Vocabulary

Korean English
์ œ๊ฐ€ [je-ga] I (formal)
๋‚ด๊ฐ€ [nae-ga] I (informal)
ํ•˜๋‹ค [ha-da] to do
์‚ฌ๋‹ค [sa-da] to buy
๋•๋‹ค [dop-da] to help
์ •๋ฆฌํ•˜๋‹ค [jeong-ni-ha-da] to organize