Unit 16
Starting my first day at Teuida

Lesson
Difference between ์ ๊ฐ and ๋ด๊ฐ meaning "I":
- ์ ๊ฐ [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 ์ต๋๋ค:
- The ending -๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค [get-seum-ni-da] is used to politely say, "I will..." or "I am determined to..." in formal situations.
์ ๊ฐ ํ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. [je-ga ha-get-seum-ni-da]
I'll do it.
- ํ๋ค [ha-da] means "to do"
- ํ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค [ha-get-seum-ni-da]
์ ๊ฐ ์ฌ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. [je-ga sa-get-seum-ni-da]
I'll buy it.
- ์ฌ๋ค [sa-da] means "to buy"
- ์ฌ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค [sa-get-seum-ni-da]
์ ๊ฐ ๋๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. [je-ga dop-get-seum-ni-da]
I'll help.
- ๋๋ค [dop-da] means "to help"
- ๋๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค [dop-get-seum-ni-da]
์ ๊ฐ ์ ๋ฆฌํ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. [je-ga jeong-ni-ha-get-seum-ni-da]
I'll organize it.
- ์ ๋ฆฌํ๋ค [jeong-ni-ha-da] means "to organize"
- ์ ๋ฆฌํ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค [jeong-ni-ha-get-seum-ni-da]
Conversation
- A: ์ด๊ฑฐ ๋๊ฐ ํ์ค๋์?
Who would like to do this? - B: ์ ๊ฐ ํ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. [je-ga ha-get-seum-ni-da]
I'll do it. - A: ๊ทธ๋ผ ๋ถํ ๋๋ฆด๊ฒ์.
Then I'll leave it to you.
- A: ์ปคํผ ๋์๊ฒ ์ด์?
Would you like some coffee? - B: ์ ๊ฐ ์ฌ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. [je-ga sa-get-seum-ni-da]
I'll buy it. - A: ์๋์์, ์ ๊ฐ ์ฌ์ค๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค.
No, I'll go get it. - B: ๊ฐ์ด ๊ฐ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. [ga-chi ga-get-seum-ni-da]
I'll go with you. - A: ์ข์์! ๊ฐ์ด ๊ฐ์.
Great! Let's go together.
Vocabulary
| Korean | English |
|---|---|
| ์ ๊ฐ [je-ga] | I (formal) |
| ๋ด๊ฐ [nae-ga] | I (informal) |
| ํ๋ค [ha-da] | to do |
| ์ฌ๋ค [sa-da] | to buy |
| ๋๋ค [dop-da] | to help |
| ์ ๋ฆฌํ๋ค [jeong-ni-ha-da] | to organize |
