day 98farm and harvest

farm and harvest

Talk about farming, livestock and the harvest, and use 설마 -으려고요? and -을 테지만 again.

today’s words

• 논 non · rice paddy
• 밭 bat · field (dry), vegetable patch
• 논밭 nonbat · farmland, paddies and fields
• 농가 nongga · farm household, farmhouse
• 농경 nonggyeong · agriculture, farming (history)
• 농장 nongjang · farm
• 목장 mokjang · ranch, pasture, dairy farm
• 가축 gachuk · livestock, farm animals
• 몰이 mori · driving, herding (animals)
• 축산물 chuksanmul · livestock products (meat, eggs, milk)
• 축산업 chuksaneop · livestock farming (industry)
• 농작물 nongjangmul · crops
• 농수산물 nongsusanmul · farm and fishery products
• 농축산물 nongchuksanmul · farm and livestock products
• 수산 susan · fisheries (industry)
• 수산물 susanmul · seafood, marine products
• 곡물 gongmul · grain, cereal
• 햇곡식 haetgoksik · new grain (of this year’s harvest)
• 추수 chusu · (autumn) harvest
• 수확 suhwak · harvest; gain
• 풍년 pungnyeon · bumper year, good harvest

sentences

• 한국 사람들은 옛날부터 논에서 벼를 길렀다. · Koreans have grown rice in paddies since ancient times.
• 할아버지는 집 뒤 밭에서 고추와 배추를 기르신다. · Grandpa grows chillies and cabbages in the field behind the house.
• 논밭이 줄고 개인주의가 퍼지면서 마을 공동체도 약해지고 있다. · As the farmland shrinks and individualism spreads, village communities are growing weaker too.
• 이 마을의 농가는 대부분 벼를 기른다. · Most of the farm households in this village grow rice.
• 한반도에서는 아주 먼 옛날에 농경이 시작되었다. · Farming began on the Korean peninsula a very long time ago.