"회사원이 연구를 믿는다."
Translation:The businessman trusts the research.
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I was taught it meant office worker, but almost all my students said their dad was a 회사원
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Businessmen are usually employees? 회사 means "office" so I'm pretty sure you can just understand this as "office worker"
- Literally '회사' means 'company' and '원' means 'a (employed) member of ...' in this case. So 회사원 usually means a full-time employee working for the company. 사무원 (office worker) can be 회사원 but not all 회사원 are 사무원.
And 'businessman' is '사업가' not '회사원'
- 회사원이 연구를 믿는다 sounds kinda unnatural but it's not like it doesn't make sense. It sounds more like a proposition than a usual sentence, because both 회사원 and 연구 seem very generic here.
(I am a Korean native speaker and came here by chance. )
Another native speaker here, I would say something like 회사원이 연구 "결과(result)"를 믿는다., 연구 "과정(process)"을 믿는다. or 연구 "계획(plan)"을 믿는다. The original sentence, "회사원이 연구를 믿는다", does sound really weird.. something more specific about 연구 should be added.
It's possible, in sentences like: 회사원이 연구를 한다 (The businessman is doing the research), or 그 연구는 성공적이었다 (the research was successful). But I have no idea how to explain the difference :( I'm sorry.
Maybe when someone is doing a research, it is the "research" what they are doing.. but when we believe something about the research it is the "outcome" of it that we actually trust. Maybe that's why?
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In English,
. Trust means to place one faith in a "person", to trust someone (not something). So to convey the idea of trust, the Korean sentence should be changed to:
회사원은 연구원을 믿는다 - The company man trusts the researcher (사람)
. Believe is to accept something (action, words etc.) at face value. So to convey the notion of belief, the Korean sentence may look something like:
회사원은 증거없이 연구결과를 믿는다 - The company man believes the research findings (사물) without evidence.
. Believe in is to believe in the value, the existence or ability of someone or something.
회사원은 연구와 연구원의 완전성을 믿는다 - The company man believes in the integrity of the research and the researchers.
Apologies to Native Koreans/fluent Korean speakers if the Korean examples above are grammatically incorrect* but hopefully, the difference of the English words (trust, believe and believe in) is understood.
- Grateful if someone could correct the Korean sentences.
Correction [Nov 23/2019] According to the Cambridge English dictionary, "trust something" is correct. It means "believe in its reliability".
Apologies to DLG.
I came here to point out that this sentence is weird, but it looks like other fellow Koreans have already posted this problem. Why is Duolingo still using this sentence?
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Yes (in my humble opinion).
Examples taken from Oxford Dictionary
• 남자는 사회 복지사라고 주장했고 노파는 그를 믿었습니다. The man claimed to be a social worker, and the old woman believed him.
• 그의 거짓말을 몇 년 동안 믿습니다. I believe his lies for years.
• 그가 한 말을 한 마디도 믿지 않을 것입니다. I wouldn't believe a word he said.
• 나를 믿어. Believe me
What do you guys think of forming social groups with both native koreans and those of us learning so we can help each other learn to speak it well? Like me im learning it but have no one to practise speech or writing it except the dramas. Please reply if you agree