"배우자"

Translation: Spouse

[JosueJimen542039]

I wrote let's learn ㅋㅋㅌ

[zedlearns]

ㅋㅋㅋ i was about to

[Wendellie]

Me too lol

[pipi310847]

ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

[rimokon]

I wrote "a spouse" and that was completely wrong, haha. I love this incredibly strict course...

[rbm92]

If you break down the word, 배우 means actor and 자 character

[George_Wang64]

sorry to break it to you, 배우자 (spouse) is derived from 配偶者 and 배우 (actor) is derived from 俳優; the 배우 part being the same pronunciation is coincidental. However this is a nice mnemonic to help us remember :)

[pipi310847]

So, that means wives and husbands can ACT!

[AricAdam]

I wrote that tooㅋㅋㅋㅋ

[abhikun]

South Koreans focuses on marriages. so we have these words. Is there a word for partner as in american sense.

[SeanFogart4]

After some searching through Japanese I get 伴侶(반려, ballyeo) but that's closer to companion and in Korean it's just turning up images of pets. Well there's always the obvious 인생의 파트너 -- it's explained well in many articles: https://ko.mncoa.org/life-partner-452 -- in Japanese too it's just put as two people walking the road together . . .

Or 연인 if you mean sexual partner . . .

[D8amx]

What do you mean?

[CGTokki]

I suppose that would be 애인... Not sure though.

[pipi310847]

I think it's 애인 too... mabye it's just misspelled.

[GinAndChronic]

Literally bae

[MadameMim123]

would 배우는 배우의 배우자 be correct ;-)