"괜찮습니다."
Translation:It is okay.
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Well usually you will hear people casually saying " 괜찮아요" or even dropping the 요 :) but this is teaching you more formal words since it's better to be more respectful just in case♡
Ikr. I thauggt the same. But i roll with it because bat in spanish is murcielago
And that's a further contraction of 괜하지 않습니다, which is also a contraction of 관계하지 않습니다.
관계 means/meant "connection/relation". So, 관계하지 않다 meant "to be irrelevant or not of any concern/matter".
And over time, that changed to become more like okay/alright.
To learn this verb, I recommend the song "It's Okay" from BTOB. You don't have to like kpop though. It's just useful because it repeats "괜찮아" (the informal way to say the verb, although the sams meaning) a lot and you can have a good idea of the pronunciation
I've got a recommendation for this vocab as well then! It's called "That's Okay, That's Okay | 괜찮아 괜찮아" on Gag Concert, a comedy show. You can easily find it on youtube! ;)
Guys just watch the gwenchana gwenchana scene from Waikiki and you're good to go!
If you speak 'gwen' out loud you will notice it could also be written as 'goen'. So the o can also be a w depending on the following vowel
If you mean that ㅙ sounds like the English word "we", it doesn't. ㅙ sounds more like "when" minus the n.
I dont understand why there is 4 of the letters in the one syllable... i thought there could only be 3 so this word threw me for a loop
The batchim (bottom) can be 1 or 2 letters.
For instance, chicken is 닭.
Why is the pronunciation so off from the romanitization... its confusing me it sounds like pin che seum ni da
Heads up: this can mean It's okay or I'm okay. It can also be a question, usually for "Are you okay?"
When theres a ㅎ in the second spot of the batchim it usually just affects the pronunciation of the next consonant. So a ㄱ might sound closer to a ㅋ or a ㄷ a ㅌ. In this case, though ㅅ is already aspirated (has an h sound/ puff of air) so it doesn't affect the pronunciation of this word.
So, it's better in a way to think of it as part of the next character?
When there are two consonants at the end of a syllable, the last syllable, in this case the ㅎ, is silent.
Except that with ㄺ, ㄻ, and ㄿ, the last character is the one that gets pronounced.
닭 -> (닥) 삶 -> (삼) 읊다 -> (읖다)
Why is the translation for "It is okay"
괜찮습니다 and not 괜찬입니다 ??
괜찮 Means okay
입니다 means "is/are/am" right?
Plus, dosent 있습니다 mean "there is" and 없습니다 mean "there is not" ?
So is the hard translation for this "there is okay?"
Because it's not correct.
"to be okay" is the unconjugated dictionary form.
But "괜찮습니다" is conjugated. It's "I'm okay" / "It's okay".
Yeah 괜잔하다 would be "to be", but this is just vocab without context, it can't be "I'm okay" without context of for instance answering someone's question "are you okay?"
Anyway I'm probably overthinking it but in a vocab exercise it's just important to know what the word means.
(but this is just vocab without context)
It's a sentence without a stated context.
(without context, it can't mean "I'm okay")
Without a stated context, it can mean any/all of "I'm okay/fine.", "It's okay/fine.", and more.
Korean inherently uses unstated contexts.
In Korean, sentences usually have their context left unstated.
The answer I got said it begins with "No". There is no negative in this sentence.
Not a fan of the blocks with 4 characters lol.
How exactly is the second one pronounced? What does the ㅎ do?
