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Its Natural in Korean: Its Natural for His Age!

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Korean Hangul
Romanization
English
Vocabulary
Grammar Points

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Korean Hangul

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Romanization

nampyeon
anae
nampyeon
anae
nampyeon
anae
nampyeon
anae
nampyeon
anae
nampyeon

yeobo, wae geureoke him-i eopseo?

yojeum sumin-i ttaemun-e geokjeong-ieyo.
wae?
gongbu-neun an hago gyesok tellebijyeon-man bwayo.
geu nai ttae-neun wollae gongbu-ga jaemieopge doe-eo isseo.
geokjeonghaji ma.
geuraedo haksaeng-inde...
gwaenchana. jom deo nai-ga deulmyeon, gongbu-ga
jung-yohadaneun geol neukkige doe-eo isseo.
geureolkkayo?
geurigo hakgyo-eseo yeolsimhi hamyeon doejana.
geuraedo... jib-eseo saeneun bagaji bakk-eseodo saendago
hajanayo. jib-eseodo ireoke tellebijeon-man boneunde...
piryohamyeon da hage doe-eo isseunikka geokjeong ma, yeobo.

English
Husband

Honey, why do you look so down?

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Wife
Husband
Wife
Husband
Wife
Husband
Wife
Husband
Wife
Husband

I'm worried about Sumin these days.

Why?
He doesn't study and just keeps watching TV.
At his age, it's natural that studying isn't fun. Don't worry.
But still, he's a student...
It's okay. When he gets a little older, he will naturally realize that
studying is important.
Will he?
And he can just study hard at school.
Still...as they say, if you're bad at home, you can't be good
outside. If he's watching TV all day long like this at home...
Honey, don't worry. He will naturally study hard when he needs
to.

Vocabulary

Hangul

Romanization
him-i eopda

gyesok
wollae
nai-ga deulda
jungyohada
neukkida
saeda
bagaji
piryohada

English
to be tired, to be down, to not
be cheerful
continually, continuously
originally, from the start
to get older, to age
to be important
to feel, to realize
to leak
gourd, basket
to need, to be necessary

Vocabulary Sample Sentences

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"For some reason, I feel down today."

"It kept raining."
"Are you always this quiet?"
"I think I have more things I want to do as I get
older."
"Experience is really important."
"I felt that this was the right choice."
"The gas is leaking. It's dangerous."

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"Put water into the basket."

"I need it badly."

Grammar Points
- (-ge doe-eo itda)
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"At his age, it's natural that studying isn't fun."

When you want to say that it is natural that something is in a way or that something is
expected to happen in a certain fashion, you can use the grammatical structure -
(-ge doe-eo itda). This structure literally means that something is "built to be in a certain way"
or "made so that it works in such a fashion" but when you translate that to English more
naturally, it means "it is natural that..." or "something is bound to be that way."

Construction

(alda) - to know
Verb stem - (al)
+ = (alge doe-eo itda) - to be bound to know

Examples

ttae-ga doemyeon
alge doe-eo
isseoyo.

yeolsimhi haneun
. saram-eun
seonggong-hage

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"You will naturally get to

know it when time comes."
"Those who work hard are
bound to be successful."

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doe-eo isseoyo.
aideul-eun jeojeollo "Children are bound to grow
.
keuge doe-eo
well on their own. (So don't
isseoyo.
worry too much about
them.)"

Examples from this dialog:

1. .
geu nai ttae-neun wollae gongbu-ga jaemieopge doe-eo isseo.
"At his age, it's natural that studying isn't fun."
2. , .
jom deo nai-ga deulmyeon, gongbu-ga jung-yohadaneun geol neukkige doe-eo isseo.
"When he gets a little older, he will naturally realize that studying is important."
3. .
piryohamyeon da hage doe-eo isseunikka geokjeong ma.
"Don't worry. He will naturally study hard when he needs to."

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The Phrase of The Lesson

The phrase of the lesson is (an-eseo saeneun bagaji

bakk-eseodo saenda). This phrase literally means that a gourd or a basket that leaks at
home will leak outside the house, too. In relation to a person's behaviors, this phrase means
that if a person's behaviors are not good, chances are that his or her behaviors won't be very
good outside, either. This also means that one can judge a person's home education based
on his or her behaviors outside, and vice versa.

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