day 103water & land

water & land

Describe a coast, a mountain and a river, and use -는다니? again to react to what someone has just said.

today’s words

• 돌멩이 dolmengi · pebble, small stone
• 뒷산 dwitsan · the hill behind (a house, a village)
• 땅바닥 ttangbadak · the ground, floor (bare)
• 물결 mulgyeol · ripples, waves (on water)
• 물속 mulsok · under the water
• 사막 samak · desert
• 산길 sangil · mountain path, trail
• 산속 sansok · deep in the mountains
• 상류 sangnyu · upper course (of a river)
• 앞바다 apbada · the sea just off the coast
• 얕다 yatda · shallow
• 연못 yeonmot · pond
• 육지 yukji · land, the mainland
• 잠기다 jamgida · to be under water, to be flooded
• 펼쳐지다 pyeolchyeojida · to spread out, to stretch before one
• 해안 haean · coast, shore
• 험하다 heomhada · rough, rugged, dangerous
• 헤엄치다 heeomchida · to swim
• 흐름 heureum · flow, current
• 흘러나오다 heulleonaoda · to flow out, to pour out
• 흘러내리다 heulleonaerida · to flow down, to run down

sentences

• 해안을 따라 걸으면 앞바다가 끝없이 펼쳐져요. · If you walk along the coast, the sea stretches out endlessly.
• 이 바다는 물이 얕아서 아이들이 헤엄치기 좋아요. · The water in this sea is shallow, so it's good for children to swim.
• 비가 많이 와서 산길이 물에 잠겼어요. · It rained a lot, so the mountain trail was flooded.
• 강 상류에서 맑은 물이 흘러내려요. · Clear water runs down from the upper part of the river.
• 사막에서는 돌멩이와 모래뿐이에요. · In the desert there's nothing but pebbles and sand.