"어느 와인이 가장 씁니까?"

Translation: Which wine is the most bitter?

[MariamaSey]

"Which is the most bitter wine?" Is not correct?

[Ash-Fred]

That would be "어느 것이 가장 쓴 와인입니까?"

[FreyanBram]

Okay thank you!

[josueetcom]

You're using which as a noun whereas the problem uses it as a determiner or noun modifier

[Charu653795]

Same question!

[DanielCoward]

Does Korean have varied intensifiers like English?

Like how we often use more/most but sometimes we use the -er -est suffixes.

Or does Korean stick to just using 가장?

[Ash-Fred]

Both "more" and "-er" are just "더", and "(the) most" and "-est" are just "가장".

[han931026]

The most bitter

[daphne2011]

Huh

[YoongisWif12]

여러분 불평하지 말라고 했어요 ㅠㅠ

[LQNRiIS9]

"Which is the most bitter wine?" should also be acceptable. In fact, though, "most bitter" is less common than "bitterest".

[Ash-Fred]

1. "Which is the most bitter wine?" and "Which wine is the most bitter?" are different questions. Imagine there are two boxes which you can't see through, and one of them has the bitterest wine in it and the other has the sweetest honey. Now you would ask "Which is the most bitter wine?", but not "Which wine is the most bitter?"

2. That possibly depends on where you're from. Personally I prefer most bitter.

[Kiklmor]

I'm sorry, I don't understand that example. In both cases, 'most' is used to augment bitter and 'bitter' is used to describe the wine. I still see these two question formats as interchangeable. Can you give another example?

[Ash-Fred]

The latter question implies that both boxes contain wine.

[FreyanBram]

But in the context where you are in a place with lots of wine, it's okay to say both "Which is the most bitter wine?" and "Which wine is the most bitter?", right? I think both will yield the same answer. I also think that most people would think of this specific situation when translating this Korean sentence into English which would probably get them (including me) wrong.

But I think I now understand that those two should be structured differently simply because of your given situation. Thank you for that!