day 59births, adoptions and in-laws
unit 9 · family, tradition & historybirths, adoptions and in-laws
Understand an older speaker’s hage-style questions (-나?: 자네 어디 가나?), and talk about births, adoption and in-laws: 임신부, 태교, 입양, 핏줄, 처가, 집사람, 화목.
today’s words
- 애지중지 aejijungji · dearly, with great care (dote on)
- 야단맞다 yadanmatda · be told off, be scolded
- 여아 yeoa · baby girl, girl (formal)
- 여의다 yeouida · lose (a parent, by death)
- 연상 yeonsang · an older person (in a couple)
- 오붓하다 obutada · cosy, intimate (just a few people)
- 이산가족 isangajok · separated family (divided by the war)
- 임신부 imsinbu · pregnant woman
- 임종 imjong · deathbed, someone’s last moments
- 입양 ibyang · adoption
- 자장가 jajangga · lullaby
- 재롱 jaerong · a small child’s cute tricks
- 조부모 jobumo · grandparents
- 집사람 jipsaram · (my) wife
- 처가 cheoga · your wife’s family (home)
- 태교 taegyo · prenatal care and education
- 핏줄 pitjul · blood ties; blood vessel
- 핵가족화 haekgajokhwa · the move to nuclear families
- 혈연 hyeoryeon · blood ties, kinship
- 화목 hwamok · harmony (in a family)
- 거문고 geomungo · geomungo (a Korean zither)
- 고무신 gomusin · rubber shoes (traditional)
- 관 gwan · coffin
sentences
- 그 부부는 늦게 얻은 딸을 애지중지 키웠다. · The couple doted on the daughter they had late in life.
- (장인이 사위에게) 자네도 어릴 때 형제와 싸워서 부모님께 야단맞곤 했나? · (a father-in-law to his son-in-law) Did you get told off by your parents for fighting with your brothers when you were small, too?
- 어젯밤 이 병원에서 건강한 여아가 태어났다. · A healthy baby girl was born at this hospital last night.
- 그는 열 살 때 부모를 여의고 조부모 손에서 자랐다. · He lost his parents at ten and was raised by his grandparents.
- (장모가 사위에게) 요즘은 연상의 아내와 결혼하는 남자도 드물지 않네. 자네 주변에도 그런 사람이 있나? · (a mother-in-law to her son-in-law) These days it isn’t rare for a man to marry an older woman. Do you know anyone like that?