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Do you know the man who is fishing? 낚시하는 남자 - the man who is fishing/the man who fishes. The fishing man makes no sense.
Whilst it may not be the most natural way to say it, it definitely does make sense.
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I would rather leave it to the experts to explain this but from what I have gathered so far:
1)
인 comes from 인다 meaning am/is/are - present tense of 이다, in neutral style.
2)
(i) -지: a noun modifier particle, similar to -것 / -거. They are added to the conjugated verb base/stem of a clause to transform the clause into a noun form. #nominalisation.
This process would enable this clause to be linked to another clause.
An example in English would be:
"When the going gets tough, the tough get going",
where go (verb) and tough (adjective) are made into nouns, the going, the tough) to act as subjects.
(ii)
-지 is used instead -것/-거 to nominalize clauses which are in the form of questions, enquiries i.e. clauses with who? what? which? where? when? whether/if? etc.
Can someone explain why it is "인" that is used instead of "는" as in 누구는지?
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Use of -(으)ㄴ/는지, basically :
a. Action verbs, stem + 는지
b. Descriptive verbs, stem + (으)ㄴ지
b1. Vowel ending DV stem + ㄴ지
b2. Consonant ending DV stem + 은지
● The verb -이다, to be belongs to the category b1. -> 이 + ㄴ지 = 인지
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(1) Main clause: [Subordinate clause]-지 압니까? = Do you know [...] ?
(2) Subordinate clause: 낚시하는 남자가 누구 인(다) = who the fishing man is
(3) On putting the 2 clauses together to form a sentence, the 다 in the subordinate clause drops off,
[낚시하는 남자가 누구 인]-지 압니까? = Do you know who the fishing man is?
In short, 인지 --> 인 = is (which belongs to the Subordinate clause; while 지 is the link particle joining the 2 clauses.
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Fishing before man qualifies it. He's the sort of man who goes fishing, probably what we'd loosely call a fisherman. Fishing after man modifies it. He's a man who's doing something to do with fishing. Surely this should be, "Do you know who the man fishing is?" Fisherman seems to be 어부, fishing man 낚시꾼 at least in the dictionaries.
Not quite.
"Do you know the fishing man" would just be 낚시하는 남자를 압니까? (i.e. are you aware of the fishing man?)
"Do you know WHO the fishing man is?" 낚시하는 남자가 누구인지 압니까?
