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day 84talent & knowledge

unit 11 · learning & reasoning

    talent & knowledge

    Talk about talent, intelligence, knowledge and wisdom, rules and exceptions, and say “whether or not” in formal Korean with 여부.

    today’s words

    • 여부 yeobu · whether or not
    • 영역 yeongyeok · area, field, domain
    • 예외 yeoe · exception
    • 원칙 wonchik · principle, rule
    • 유형 yuhyeong · type, pattern
    • 일종 iljong · a kind of, a sort of
    • 적용 jeogyong · application, applying
    • 전제 jeonje · premise, precondition
    • 정의 jeongui · definition
    • 체계 chegye · system, structure
    • -형 -hyeong · -형: type, form
    • 형성 hyeongseong · formation, forming
    • 형식 hyeongsik · form, format
    • 상상 sangsang · imagination, imagining
    • 상상력 sangsangnyeok · imagination (the ability)
    • 재능 jaeneung · talent, gift
    • 재주 jaeju · skill, knack
    • 지능 jineung · intelligence
    • 지식 jisik · knowledge
    • 지식인 jisigin · intellectual (person)
    • 지혜 jihye · wisdom
    • 지혜롭다 jihyeropda · wise

    sentences

    • 지식이 많다고 다 지혜로운 것은 아니에요. · Knowing a lot doesn't make you wise.
    • 원칙은 원칙이지만 이번에는 예외로 해 줄게요. · Rules are rules, but I'll make an exception this time.
    • 아이들은 놀면서 상상력을 키워요. · Children grow their imagination through play.
    • 한국어는 높임말 체계가 복잡해요. · Korean has a complicated system of honorifics.
    • 사전에서는 단어를 기본형으로 찾아요. · In a dictionary, you look words up by their basic form.