Tag: interrogatives

~게(요)? = Riddling or rhetorical question, you wanna ____ or something?, are you intending to?, Guess what (asking about sb’s action or intention)

그 사내아이 이름 뭘로 짓게? = What will you name him?

누구 위해 들었게요 그럼? = Who [else] would I have taken out the insurance for, then?

저녁에 이 마을서 장사지내게? = Are you fixin’ to hold a funeral in the village tonight? (i.e., are you trying to kill us?)

내가 이번 주말에 뭘 했게? = Guess what I did this weekend.

내가 지금 뭐하고 있게? = guess what i am doing now?

그가 집에 도착했을 때 그 사람 부인이 뭐라고 했게요? = What’d his wife say when he got home, do you know? (guess what!)

야, 야, 내가 주말에 뭐했게? 나 남자친구랑 서울타워에서 저녁먹었다! = 

Hey, hey, do you know what I did at the weekend? I went to the Seoul Tower and had dinner with my boyfriend!

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~는가 = Question form for processive verbs, 있다 & 없다, past and future bases (-었는가, -겠는가). (Descriptive verbs ~(으)ㄴ가) often used for musings to oneself: I wonder whether…; Could it be that…?; is it the case that…? 

누군가 어둠 속에서 수영을 하는가 = Was somebody perhaps swimming in the dark?
무슨 일이 일어날 수 있겠는가 = What could possibly go wrong?
어떻게 모를 수 있겠는가 = How could you not know?

세상에 자기 아내와 자식 귀하지 않은 놈 있겠는가 = What jerk is there on earth who doesn’t care for his wife and kids?

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quoted interrogatives

action verb ~(느)냐고 하다/묻다/물어보다
descriptive verb ~(으)냐고 하다/묻다/물어보다  
noun ~(이)냐고 하다/묻다/물어보다 

방이 넓으냐고 해요 = asks if the room is spacious.
언제 오냐고 해요 = asks when I will come.
언제 밥을 먹(느)냐고 했어요 = asked when we are eating. 
내일이 초하루냐고 했어요 = asked whether tomorrow is the first of the month.
어제가 그믐이었냐고 했어요 = asked whether yesterday was the end of the month.
학교가 클 거냐고 해요 = asks whether the school is going to be large.
언제 올 거냐고 해요 = asks (me) when I will come.
우리 아빠는 나에게 어디 갔냐고 물어봤어 = My dad asked me where I went
그는 뭐 먹고 싶냐고 물어봤어 = He asked what do you want to eat

나는 그 사람이 누구냐고 물어봤어 = I asked who that person is
나는 그 것이 뭐냐고 물어봤어 = I asked what that thing is
나는 그 것이 무엇이냐고 물어봤어 = I asked what that thing is
그 곳이 어디냐고 물어봤어 = I asked where that place is
시험이 언제냐고 물어봤어 = I asked when the exam was
나는 그 사람이 우리 선생님이냐고 물어봤어 = I asked if that person is our teacher

Interrogatives

Action V. ~나요? 

무엇을 준비해야 하나요? – What should we bring?
받아쓰기 시험도 보나요? – Is there a dictation test too?
당신은 영어를 가르치나요? – Do you teach English?
토요일에 학교를 가나요? – Do you go to school at saturday?
한국말 하나요? – Do you speak Korean?
이 삼계탕은 어떻게 먹나요? – How do I eat this Samgeotang?
운동하나요? – Do you work out?

N. ~인가요? 

그 사람은 의사인가요? – Is he a doctor?
그것은 커피인가요? – Is that coffee?
이것이 당신의 차인가요? – Is this your car?
그 사람은 외국인인가요? – Is he a foreigner?
걔들은 학생인가요? – Are they students?

Descriptive V. ~(으)ㄴ가요

배가 고픈가요? – Are you hungry?
오늘 날씨가 흐린가요? – Is it cloudy today?
떡볶이는 매운가요? – Is Teokbokki spicy?
방이 얼마나 넓은가요? – How large is the room?
그 영화는 슬픈가요? – Is the movie sad?

A./V. ~니?

밥을 먹었니? – Did you eat?
한국에서 전화하니? – Are you calling from Korea?
지금 시간 좀 있니? – Do you have time right now?
편지 썼니? – Did you write the letter?
그게 숙제였니? – Was it the homework?
전화 할 거니? – Will you call?