"커피는 맛없어요."

Translation: Coffee tastes bad.

[Flash36]

'맛없다' literally translates as "tasteless" - typically implying a negative context, in which case both "tastes bad" and "is tasteless" should be accepted.

[elchorizo]

What is this nonsense? Makes as much sense as "a bed is food".

[Andy513708]

Unless you're one of those weirdos who actually doesn't like coffee.
(is one of those weirdos)

[EricThomse1]

There's a bitter chemical in coffee that only about one in eight people can taste. It accounts for most of the "weirdos" (myself included) who think that coffee tastes bad. I even find the smell to be unpleasant. Coffee and stinky hand soap. That's my two scents. ;)

[char_ott]

I quite agree, my kind sir! BUT i wish it tastes how it smells! Then i would love it

[curiouscait]

Is 맛없어요 pronounced 'mateopseoyo' or 'maseopseoyo'?

[Ash-Fred]

It is pronounced [마덥써요].

[AndreiChichizola]

Why? Is ㅅ before ㅇ pronounced like ㄷ ??

[josueetcom]

I think it's because it's pronounced as two words 맛 and 없어요. But I guess that raises the question, why is 맛있어요 pronounced as one word while 맛없어요 is pronounced as two?

[pluureng]

맛없다 uses an irregular orthography.

[Ash-Fred]

It is actually the opposite. 맛있다 is the irregular one.

[Ash-Fred]

Indeed the prescribed pronunciation in [마디써요], but Koreans somehow had been pronouncing it wrong, so the NIKL made an exception and you can also pronounce it [마시써요].

[Andy513708]

No, but ㅅ at the end of a syllable is pronounced like ㄷ.

[goohayoon]

Nope. ㅅ before ㅇ is pronounced like ㅅ.
But this word 맛없어요 is an exception.

[Ash-Fred]

맛 and 없- are two separate morphemes. It is not an exception.

[pipi310847]

Mad- op-so-yo

[Nicofiesta]

Litterally "has no taste"?

[shimanni]

Yes. 맛 corresponds to the hanja 味 (flavor/taste).

[LiKenun]

It corresponds, but does not represent it. 味 is not a drop-in substitute for 맛.

[Artikyulet]

Sentence reported for being a filthy lie!!! Coffee is the greatest! :)

[GeorgeFred12]

So "Coffee has no taste" isn't acceptable?

[Charoleia]

The pronounciation exercise refuses the pronunciation of 맛없어요 as "맏없어요" until I distinctively proncounced "맛" as [mas], which 1- is not how the audio sample proncounces it (audio says [맏] 2-has been confirmed here that it should be pronounced [맏] [mat]

[LadyEllaLuna]

I also asked a Korean friend who says I'm pronouncing it properly - even complimented my 어 - so it's a glitch. Report it and hopefully they'll fix it.

[doodlebob20]

coffee is disgusting?

[hufflepuffchim]

So tasteless=bad taste?

[Rattasat3]

Why I can't pronouce '맛없어요' ? Even I took my Korean friend to do this practice he still fail it. Is that just because of my device ? I see no one talking about the problem here.

[mumzilla3]

I pronounced 맛있어요 and it was marked as correct. Maybe they like coffee now?

[LadyEllaLuna]

It seems to be a glitch, report it.

[Jet480150]

i had " coffee is not delicious" and it was marked correct. which is the better translation?

[jaisaige]

Coffee is nasty should be accepted

[sugarlino]

But why is 맛없어요 not pronounced as maseobseoyo
I am aware of the rule with ㅅ but shouldn't it be mas here not mat?

[Ash-Fred]

Because 맛 and 없- are two separate morphemes. 맛 is a stand-alone noun and the final ㅅ is pronounced [ㄷ]. For reference, 맛있어요 [마디써요] is an exception where it can also be pronounced [마시써요].

[EmmaSweetiePie]

In the vocal exercise it still only accepts mash-eob-seo-yo for some reason. Whenever I pronounce it right I get it marked wrong

[EmmaSweetiePie]

It always says I said it wrong when i literally say it the same as the dude in the speaker. I even said it into google translate and it knew exactly what I said. This lesson was perfect until it didn't like the fact that I said the word right???

[EmmaSweetiePie]

I had to say "mash-eob-seo-yo" instead of "mad/t/s-eob-seo-yo" I'm very heated