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๐Ÿ“˜ Grammar 9: How to Use ~๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š” – Expressing Desire in Korean

๐Ÿ“˜ How to Use ~๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š” – Expressing Desire in Korean Do you want to eat? Want to go? Want to sleep? In Korean, when you want to express your desire to do something, you can use the grammar structure: Verb stem + ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š” . In this lesson, you’ll learn how to say what you want to do in Korean using “~๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š””,  ๐Ÿง  What Does ~๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š” Mean? “~๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š”” literally means “I want to...” You attach it to the stem of an action verb to express that you want to do that action. Structure: Verb stem + ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š” → “I want to (verb)” Examples: ๋จน๋‹ค (to eat) → ๋จน๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š” – I want to eat ๊ฐ€๋‹ค (to go) → ๊ฐ€๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š” – I want to go ์ž๋‹ค (to sleep) → ์ž๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š” – I want to sleep ๐Ÿ’ฌ Sentence Patterns 1) Basic: ์ €๋Š” + [verb stem + ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š”] ์ €๋Š” ์‰ฌ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š” – I want to rest 2) With object: [object + ์„/๋ฅผ] + [verb stem + ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š”] ๊น€๋ฐฅ์„ ๋จน๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š” – I want to eat gimbap 3) Negative: ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์ง€ ์•Š์•„์š” → “I don’t want to...” ๊ฐ€๊ณ  ์‹ถ์ง€ ์•Š์•„์š” – I don’t want to go ๐Ÿ“˜ Common Verbs + ~๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š” Verb (Base) Desire For...