"What are we having for dessert?"

Translation: 후식은 뭐 먹어요?

[Jessica396502]

Doesn't '후식은 뭐 먹어요?' sound like 'What did the dessert eat?'

[wintertriangles]

Nope, you can think of the topic particle as saying "as for dessert...what (do we) eat?"

[pluureng]

That means if the "we" is directly implied, would it be "후식은 우리가 뭐 먹어요?"?

[JennyAntho2]

But i Korean, from what I've noticed, is they often times omit subject particles when talking.

[Jessica396502]

does** Sorry

[ladydessy]

Not only that but I added '우리' and didn't accept my answer.

[pluureng]

Why is "우리는 후식으로 무엇을 먹을 것입니까" not correct?

[blzs92]

I think, here we have to use present tense so:
우리는 후식으로 무엇을 먹어요 ? but I'm not 100% sure we can use 후식으로

[oee16]

@blzs92. I go along with that. Nothing wrong with using 으로.

@pluureng

(으)ᄅ 것이다 -> probable future, often interpreted as "will (probably) [...]"

우리는 후식으로 무엇을 먹을 것입니까? ~ what (do you think ) we will have for dessert?

(어/아)요 (polite present tense) -> definite future (describing future event that will occur with absolute certainty), often interpreted as "be going to [...]"

우리는 후식으로 무엇을 먹어요 ? ~ what are we going to have for dessert? / what are we having for dessert?

Note: The English versions are to show how the Korean sentences would be understood. Not their exact translations.

[hidetouk]

the same structure as Japanese language

[oee16]

뭐 먹어요? [= 뭘 먹어요? where the object marker is dropped*] = what do you eat?/what are you eating?

*뭐 - short form of 무엇
뭘 - short form of 무엇을

[TalvirChri]

Wow, such a discussion!))) I've been just wondering about the usage of hushign instead of hushigoro )))

[oee16]

후식으로 뭐 먹어요 ? = What are we having "as/for" dessert ?

후식은 뭐 먹어요 ? = "Speaking of" dessert, what are we having ?