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✍️ Intermediate Day 3: Verb Ending Variations – -네요, -군요

📘 Intermediate Day 3: Verb Ending Variations – -네요, -군요 Welcome back to Day 3 of your Intermediate Korean learning journey! ✨ In this lesson, we're going to learn two expressive sentence endings that add emotional reaction, surprise, and discovery to your Korean: -네요 – realization, admiration, or new discovery -군요 / -는군요 – confirmation, reaction to new information These endings are commonly heard in spoken Korean, especially when reacting naturally in conversations. 📘 What Are -네요 and -군요 Used For? These endings allow speakers to add their own personal reaction to something new they just observed, heard, tasted, or realized. They are especially useful in casual, semi-formal, and even polite contexts! 📘 1. -네요 (Expressing Realization, Surprise, Admiration) -네요 is added to a verb or adjective stem when the speaker is surprised or impressed, or realizes something new at the moment. Examples: 이 케이크 정말 맛있 네요 . i ke-i-keu jeong-mal ma-sit-ne-yo...