day 5eras, seasons and turning points
unit 1 · a fifth yeareras, seasons and turning points
Give a casual reason with -걸랑(요) (because, you see), and talk about eras, seasons and turning points: 초창기, 전성기, 황금기, 전환기, 정체기, 역대.
today’s words
- 시간대 sigandae · time slot, time of day
- 시대적 sidaejeok · of the times, of the era
- 시즌 sijeun · season (sports, holidays, sales)
- 아득하다 adeukada · distant, far-off, dim
- 앞당기다 apdanggida · bring forward, move up (a date)
- 애초 aecho · the very start, originally
- 역대 yeokdae · all-time, successive
- 연잇다 yeonnitda · follow one after another
- 연초 yeoncho · beginning of the year
- -일 -il · -일: day (of an event)
- 잇달다 itdalda · come one after another
- 장차 jangcha · in the future, someday
- 전기 jeongi · turning point
- 전반부 jeonbanbu · first half, first part
- 전성기 jeonseonggi · heyday, peak
- 전환기 jeonhwangi · transition period, turning point
- 정체기 jeongchegi · plateau, standstill
- 종전 jongjeon · previous, former (way, rule)
- 초창기 chochanggi · early days, beginnings
- 최후 choehu · the last, the final (moment)
- 현 hyeon · current, present (before a noun)
- 황금기 hwanggeumgi · golden age
- 후반부 hubanbu · second half, latter part
sentences
- 우리 회사 초창기에는 직원이 다섯 명뿐이었대요. · Apparently in our company’s early days there were only five staff.
- 1989년은 한국 해외여행 역사에 큰 전기가 되었다. · 1989 was a major turning point in the history of Korean travel abroad.
- 그 가수의 전성기는 1990년대였다. · That singer’s heyday was the 1990s.
- 매출이 정체기를 지나 다시 늘고 있다. · Sales have come out of a plateau and are growing again.
- 나 요즘 정신없어. 연초부터 일이 계속 생기걸랑. · I’m all over the place these days. Things have kept coming up since the start of the year, you see.