๐บHOW TO SAY "MORE" IN KOREAN๐บ
In Korean, the word for “more” is ๋ [deo]. In English relatively short words change their forms
instead of having the word “more” in front of them, like shorter, hotter, faster, but in Korean all
the words just have this word ๋ attached before them.
๐Example:
•๋น ๋ฅด๋ค = to be fast
๋ ๋น ๋ฅด๋ค = to be faster
•๋น์ธ๋ค = to be expensive
๋ ๋น์ธ๋ค = to be more expensive
•์๋ป์. = It’s pretty. / You’re pretty. / She’s pretty.
๋ ์๋ป์. = It’s prettier. / You’re prettier. / She’s prettier.
๐บHOW TO SAY “THAN” IN KOREAN:๐บ
The word for “than” or “compared to” is ๋ณด๋ค [bo-da].
The basic construction for this is not very complicated, but the word order in Korean is com-
pletely different from English. Let us compare the two.
*English: A watermelon is bigger than an apple.
Korean: ์๋ฐ์ ์ฌ๊ณผ๋ณด๋ค ๋ ์ปค์. [su-ba-geun sa-gwa-bo-da keo-yo.]
๐** In the English sentence above, the word “than” comes BEFORE “apple” but in Korean, the
word -๋ณด๋ค [bo-da] (which means “than”) comes AFTER ์ฌ๊ณผ [sa-gwa], which means “apple”.
*CONSTRUCTION:
than A = A๋ณด๋ค
more (verb/adjective/adverb) than A = A๋ณด๋ค ๋ (verb/adjective/adverb)
๐EXAMPLE:
•to be big = ํฌ๋ค [keu-da]
to be bigger = ๋ ํฌ๋ค [deo keu-da]
It’s bigger. = ๋ ์ปค์. [deo keo-yo.]
It’s bigger than this one. ์ด๊ฑฐ๋ณด๋ค ๋ ์ปค์. [i-geo-bo-da deo keo-yo.]
•to be nice (to people) = ์ฐฉํ๋ค [cha-ka-da]
to be nicer = ๋ ์ฐฉํ๋ค [deo cha-ka-da]
ํ์ฐ is nicer. = ํ์ฐ ์จ๋ ๋ ์ฐฉํด์.
ํ์ฐ is nicer than ๊ฒฝ์. = ํ์ฐ ์จ๋ ๊ฒฝ์ ์จ๋ณด๋ค ๋ ์ฐฉํด์.
๐** ๋ [deo] is not always necessary in Korean sentences. In English, it would be weird if you
said “She’s busy than me.” instead of “She’s busier than me.” but in Korean the meaning is per-
fectly clear even without the word ๋ [deo].
*SAMPLE SENTENCES:
1. ์ค๋์ ์ด์ ๋ณด๋ค ๋์์. [o-neu-reun eo-je-bo-da deo-wo-yo.]
= Today is hotter than yesterday.
2. ์์ด๋ ํ๊ตญ์ด๋ณด๋ค ์ด๋ ค์์. [yeong-eo-neun han-gu-geo-bo-da eo-ryeo-wo-yo.]
= English is more difficult than Korean.
3. ์ด์ ๋ณด๋ค ์ผ์ฐ ๊ฐ ๊ฑฐ์์. [eo-je-bo-da il-jjik gal geo-ye-yo.]
= I’m going to go earlier than yesterday.
4. ํ์ ์จ๊ฐ ์ ๋ณด๋ค ๋ ์ ํด์. [hyeon-jeong ssi-ga jeo-bo-da deo jal hae-yo.]
= Hyeonjeong is better than me (at doing that).
5. ์ ๋ ์ฑ ์ ์ฝ๋ ๊ฒ๋ณด๋ค ์ฌ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋ ์ข์ํด์. [jeo-neun chae-geul il-neun geot-bo-da sa-
neun geo-seul deo jo-a-hae-yo.]
= I like buying books more than reading books.
CTTO:
In Korean, the word for “more” is ๋ [deo]. In English relatively short words change their forms
instead of having the word “more” in front of them, like shorter, hotter, faster, but in Korean all
the words just have this word ๋ attached before them.
๐Example:
•๋น ๋ฅด๋ค = to be fast
๋ ๋น ๋ฅด๋ค = to be faster
•๋น์ธ๋ค = to be expensive
๋ ๋น์ธ๋ค = to be more expensive
•์๋ป์. = It’s pretty. / You’re pretty. / She’s pretty.
๋ ์๋ป์. = It’s prettier. / You’re prettier. / She’s prettier.
๐บHOW TO SAY “THAN” IN KOREAN:๐บ
The word for “than” or “compared to” is ๋ณด๋ค [bo-da].
The basic construction for this is not very complicated, but the word order in Korean is com-
pletely different from English. Let us compare the two.
*English: A watermelon is bigger than an apple.
Korean: ์๋ฐ์ ์ฌ๊ณผ๋ณด๋ค ๋ ์ปค์. [su-ba-geun sa-gwa-bo-da keo-yo.]
๐** In the English sentence above, the word “than” comes BEFORE “apple” but in Korean, the
word -๋ณด๋ค [bo-da] (which means “than”) comes AFTER ์ฌ๊ณผ [sa-gwa], which means “apple”.
*CONSTRUCTION:
than A = A๋ณด๋ค
more (verb/adjective/adverb) than A = A๋ณด๋ค ๋ (verb/adjective/adverb)
๐EXAMPLE:
•to be big = ํฌ๋ค [keu-da]
to be bigger = ๋ ํฌ๋ค [deo keu-da]
It’s bigger. = ๋ ์ปค์. [deo keo-yo.]
It’s bigger than this one. ์ด๊ฑฐ๋ณด๋ค ๋ ์ปค์. [i-geo-bo-da deo keo-yo.]
•to be nice (to people) = ์ฐฉํ๋ค [cha-ka-da]
to be nicer = ๋ ์ฐฉํ๋ค [deo cha-ka-da]
ํ์ฐ is nicer. = ํ์ฐ ์จ๋ ๋ ์ฐฉํด์.
ํ์ฐ is nicer than ๊ฒฝ์. = ํ์ฐ ์จ๋ ๊ฒฝ์ ์จ๋ณด๋ค ๋ ์ฐฉํด์.
๐** ๋ [deo] is not always necessary in Korean sentences. In English, it would be weird if you
said “She’s busy than me.” instead of “She’s busier than me.” but in Korean the meaning is per-
fectly clear even without the word ๋ [deo].
*SAMPLE SENTENCES:
1. ์ค๋์ ์ด์ ๋ณด๋ค ๋์์. [o-neu-reun eo-je-bo-da deo-wo-yo.]
= Today is hotter than yesterday.
2. ์์ด๋ ํ๊ตญ์ด๋ณด๋ค ์ด๋ ค์์. [yeong-eo-neun han-gu-geo-bo-da eo-ryeo-wo-yo.]
= English is more difficult than Korean.
3. ์ด์ ๋ณด๋ค ์ผ์ฐ ๊ฐ ๊ฑฐ์์. [eo-je-bo-da il-jjik gal geo-ye-yo.]
= I’m going to go earlier than yesterday.
4. ํ์ ์จ๊ฐ ์ ๋ณด๋ค ๋ ์ ํด์. [hyeon-jeong ssi-ga jeo-bo-da deo jal hae-yo.]
= Hyeonjeong is better than me (at doing that).
5. ์ ๋ ์ฑ ์ ์ฝ๋ ๊ฒ๋ณด๋ค ์ฌ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋ ์ข์ํด์. [jeo-neun chae-geul il-neun geot-bo-da sa-
neun geo-seul deo jo-a-hae-yo.]
= I like buying books more than reading books.
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