Processing keyword: ~์ง๋ง [jimyeon] (But, however)
Korean Grammar Point: ~์ง๋ง [jimyeon] (But, however)
1. Introduction
In Korean, connecting contrasting ideas or statements is essential for expressing complex thoughts. The grammar point ~์ง๋ง (~jiman) is commonly used to link two clauses where the second clause presents a contrast or exception to the first. It translates to "but" or "however" in English.
2. Core Grammar Explanation
Meaning
~์ง๋ง is a conjunctive ending attached to verbs, adjectives, or nouns to express contrast between two clauses. It indicates that the second clause is in opposition or contrast to the first clause.
Structure
Formation Diagram
For Verbs and Adjectives:
[Verb/Adjective Stem] + ์ง๋ง
For Nouns:
- If the noun ends with a consonant:
[Noun] + ์ด์ง๋ง
- If the noun ends with a vowel:
[Noun] + ์ง๋ง
How to Form ~์ง๋ง
- Verbs and Adjectives:
- Remove the dictionary ending ๋ค from the verb or adjective to get the stem.
- Attach ์ง๋ง directly to the stem. Example:
- ๋จน๋ค (to eat)
๋จน๋ค โ ๋จน + ์ง๋ง โ ๋จน์ง๋ง (but eat)
- ์์๋ค (to be pretty)
์์๋ค โ ์์ + ์ง๋ง โ ์์์ง๋ง (but [it is] pretty)
- Nouns:
- If the noun ends with a consonant, add ์ด์ง๋ง.
- If the noun ends with a vowel, add ์ง๋ง. Examples:
- ํ์ (student)
ํ์ + ์ด์ง๋ง โ ํ์์ด์ง๋ง (but [I am] a student)
- ์์ฌ (doctor)
์์ฌ + ์ง๋ง โ ์์ฌ์ง๋ง (but [he is] a doctor)
Usage Notes
- Tense is expressed in the second clause, not before ~์ง๋ง.
Example:
- ์ด์ ๋ฐ๋นด์ง๋ง ์ํ ๋ดค์ด์.
- Yesterday I was busy, but I watched a movie.
- ์ด์ ๋ฐ๋นด์ง๋ง ์ํ ๋ดค์ด์.
3. Comparative Analysis
~์ง๋ง vs. ~๋๋ฐ/์๋ฐ
While ~์ง๋ง explicitly denotes contrast similar to "but," ~๋๋ฐ/์๋ฐ can imply contrast, provide background information, or indicate a cause. Examples:
- ~์ง๋ง (explicit contrast)
- ๊ธฐ์์ง๋ง ํํํ์ง ์์์ด์.
- I was happy, but I didn't express it.
- ๊ธฐ์์ง๋ง ํํํ์ง ์์์ด์.
- ~๋๋ฐ/์๋ฐ (contrast or background)
- ๊ธฐ์๋ฐ ํํํ์ง ์์์ด์.
- I was happy, but I didn't express it. (Can also imply since or although)
- ๊ธฐ์๋ฐ ํํํ์ง ์์์ด์.
~์ง๋ง vs. ํ์ง๋ง
- ~์ง๋ง is attached to verbs, adjectives, or nouns to connect two clauses within a sentence.
- ํ์ง๋ง is an adverb meaning "but" or "however" and often starts a new sentence. Examples:
- Using ~์ง๋ง:
- ๋น๊ฐ ์ค์ง๋ง ์ถ๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ํ์ด์.
- It was raining, but we played soccer.
- ๋น๊ฐ ์ค์ง๋ง ์ถ๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ํ์ด์.
- Using ํ์ง๋ง:
- ๋น๊ฐ ์์ด์. ํ์ง๋ง ์ถ๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ํ์ด์.
- It was raining. However, we played soccer.
- ๋น๊ฐ ์์ด์. ํ์ง๋ง ์ถ๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ํ์ด์.
4. Examples in Context
Sentence Examples
- Formal Written
- ๊ทธ๋ ์ด์ฌํ ๊ณต๋ถํ์ง๋ง ์ํ์ ๋จ์ด์ก์ต๋๋ค.
- He studied hard, but he failed the exam.
- ๊ทธ๋ ์ด์ฌํ ๊ณต๋ถํ์ง๋ง ์ํ์ ๋จ์ด์ก์ต๋๋ค.
- Polite Spoken
- ์ด ์ฑ
์ ์ด๋ ต์ง๋ง ์ฌ๋ฏธ์์ด์.
- This book is difficult, but it's interesting.
- ์ด ์ฑ
์ ์ด๋ ต์ง๋ง ์ฌ๋ฏธ์์ด์.
- Informal Spoken
- ๋ง์์ง๋ง ๋๋ฌด ๋น์ธ.
- It's delicious, but it's too expensive.
- ๋ง์์ง๋ง ๋๋ฌด ๋น์ธ.
- Formal Spoken
- ์ฃ์กํ์ง๋ง ๊ธธ์ ์๋ ค ์ฃผ์๊ฒ ์ด์?
- I'm sorry, but could you tell me the way?
- ์ฃ์กํ์ง๋ง ๊ธธ์ ์๋ ค ์ฃผ์๊ฒ ์ด์?
- Casual Written
- ์ํ ๋ดค์ง๋ง ๊ธฐ๋๋งํผ ์ข์ง ์์์ด.
- I watched the movie, but it wasn't as good as I expected.
- ์ํ ๋ดค์ง๋ง ๊ธฐ๋๋งํผ ์ข์ง ์์์ด.
Dialogue Example
A: ํ๊ตญ ์์ ์ข์ํด์? B: ์ข์ํ์ง๋ง ๋งค์ด ์์์ ๋ชป ๋จน์ด์.
- A: Do you like Korean food?
- B: I like it, but I can't eat spicy food.
5. Cultural Notes
Politeness and Formality
- The use of ~์ง๋ง itself does not carry a level of politeness; politeness is conveyed through verb endings in the sentence.
- Adding ์ฃ์กํ์ง๋ง or ๋ฏธ์ํ์ง๋ง at the beginning of a request adds politeness and softens the request.
Example:
- ์ฃ์กํ์ง๋ง ์ฐฝ๋ฌธ์ ๋ซ์ ์ฃผ์๊ฒ ์ด์?
- I'm sorry, but could you close the window?
- ์ฃ์กํ์ง๋ง ์ฐฝ๋ฌธ์ ๋ซ์ ์ฃผ์๊ฒ ์ด์?
Idiomatic Expressions
- ์์ฝ์ง๋ง: "It's a shame, but..."
- ์์ฝ์ง๋ง ๋ค์์ ๋ง๋์.
- It's a shame, but let's meet next time.
- ์์ฝ์ง๋ง ๋ค์์ ๋ง๋์.
6. Common Mistakes and Tips
Common Mistakes
- Attaching Tense Markers Before ~์ง๋ง
- Incorrect: ๋จน์์ง๋ง๋ค, ์๋ปค์ง๋ง๋ค
- Correct: ๋จน์์ง๋ง, ์๋ปค์ง๋ง Tense markers like ์/์ are placed before ~์ง๋ง, but do not add ๋ค after ~์ง๋ง.
- Using ~์ง๋ง with a Conjugated Verb
- Incorrect: ๊ฐ๋๋ค์ง๋ง, ๊ณต๋ถํด์์ง๋ง
- Correct: ๊ฐ์ง๋ง, ๊ณต๋ถํ์ง๋ง Attach ~์ง๋ง directly to the stem, not to the conjugated form.
Tips
- Focus on the Verb/Adjective Stem: Always attach ~์ง๋ง to the base form of the verb or adjective.
- Remember the Noun Exception: Use ์ด์ง๋ง after nouns ending with consonants, and ์ง๋ง after vowels.
- Politeness Comes Later: Adjust the level of politeness with the sentence-ending verb, not with ~์ง๋ง.
7. Summary and Review
Key Takeaways
- ~์ง๋ง is used to express contrast, meaning "but" or "however."
- Attach ~์ง๋ง directly to verb and adjective stems.
- For nouns, use ์ด์ง๋ง after consonants and ์ง๋ง after vowels.
- Tense and politeness are indicated in the second clause, not with ~์ง๋ง.
Quick Recap Quiz
- Fill in the blank:
- ๋ฐ์___ ๋์์ค๊ฒ์.
- Answer: ๋ฐ์์ง๋ง ๋์์ค๊ฒ์. (I'm busy, but I will help you.)
- Choose the correct option:
How do you say "It's small but convenient" in Korean?
a) ์์ด์ง๋ง ํธ๋ฆฌํด์.
b) ์์ง๋ง ํธ๋ฆฌํด์.
c) ์์์ง๋ง ํธ๋ฆฌํด์.
- Answer: b) ์์ง๋ง ํธ๋ฆฌํด์.
- True or False:
You should add tense markers like ์/์ after ~์ง๋ง.
- Answer: False. Tense markers are placed before ~์ง๋ง, and the second clause shows the tense.
By understanding and practicing the use of ~์ง๋ง, you can effectively express contrasting ideas in Korean, enhancing both your written and spoken communication skills.
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