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✍️ Intermediate Day 23: Quoting Questions – ~냐고 해요

📘 Intermediate Day 23: Quoting Questions – ~냐고 해요 Welcome to Day 23 of the Intermediate Korean series! 🎤 In the previous lesson, we learned how to report statements with ~다고 해요 and ~(이)라고 해요. Today, we’ll take it one step further by learning how to report questions using: ~냐고 해요 – “(They) asked if…” or “(They) asked whether…” This is especially useful for summarizing conversations or quoting someone’s question indirectly in Korean. Let’s explore how to use this structure in various situations! 📘 1. What is ~냐고 해요? ~냐고 해요 is used when you want to quote a question someone asked indirectly. It means “They asked if…” or “Someone said, ‘Did you…?’” It’s part of Korean indirect speech, and has specific rules depending on whether the verb is an action verb, descriptive verb, or a noun. 📘 2. Conjugation Rules for ~냐고 해요 Action verbs (present): stem + 냐고 해요 가다 → 가냐고 해요 Descriptive verbs (present): stem + (으)냐고 해요 예쁘다 → 예쁘냐고 해요 Past...