"제가 먹은 불고기는 맛있었어요."
Translation:The bulgogi which I ate was delicious.
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Past: ~(으)ㄴ (Example: 마신 물), Present: ~는 (Example: 마시는 물), Future: ~(으)ㄹ (Example: 마실 물)
Can this phrasing be used as a more general concept, ie "The bulgogi I've eaten was delicious" - that is, in your experience, all the bulgogi you've had is delicious? Or is it only referring to a single serving you had one time?
The former is unlikely, but possible. "The bulgogi I've eaten was delicious." is now accepted. You would say "제가 먹은 불고기는 다 맛있었어요." to refer to all the bulgogi. Also depending on the context, you'd use -던 instead.
It suggested that the correct answer was: "The bulgogi which i'd was delicious."
(For the record, I had typed "The bulgogi which I ate was delicous"
"The bulgogi I ate/that I ate was very delicious" should be accepted. Using "which" sounds very awkward and old fashioned to me, although it is also correct.
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"The bulgogi which I ate was delicious" would be correct. Posted on Dec. 11, 2017.
"The bulgogi which I ate was delicious." is now accepted and the primary translation.
I've got to remember: If you read fast, a biob can look like a mieum, turning bulgogi into fish! (Listening more closely might help too.)
Interesting. I didn't know there were fish people don't eat. 고기 sure sounds like food.
That's not what I meant -- I meant that 물고기 is living fish that has not been prepared for consumption. Once you kill it and make it ready to eat, it's 생선, or 회 if it's sashimi. Also -- and this may seem odd -- 고기 has meant both 'meat' and '(living) fish' since at least 1103 AD! The 물- in 물고기 is only there to disambiguate. The word doesn't actually mean 'water meat'.
I was thinking along those same lines with my wrong answer, but the bulgogi is the subject, so "which I ate" describes the bulgogi, so bulgogi was delicious is the core of the sentence. That (or which) I ate only shows you which bulgogi was delicious, so, I ate the bulgogi and it was delicious (which I also got wrong) would require a different verb ending on "ate" to indicate "and", which is missing. So, unfortunately, we are wrong. But, I love that I caught why much quicker this time! Slow and steady progress...
But the verb is "was". 제가 먹은 is "that I ate" or "which I ate". In your sentence, eating is the point of the sentence while the bulgogi being delicious is the point of the provided sentence. It's a minor difference, and I've done the same thing often in these lessons.