"이 국은 양파 맛이 나요."

Translation: This soup tastes like onion.

[Tim608103]

What is the difference between 수프 and 국?

[nleconte]

The etymological origin, I'd say... English versus native Korean.

You can also add 탕 to that list (Chinese origin).

Now, certain dishes are common to use on or the other, so better learn/memorize them as is as you encounter them.

[ShubhraDutta]

국 is usually for "broth" while 수프 is for soups such as tomato, sweet corn soup etc.

[Jeong-JinL]

What is the soup and where can I get some?

[JoshuaSoh5]

"this soup has the taste of onion"?

[ConnonThom]

Can someone explain the difference between this grammar and 같아요?

[KR2019]

The literal translations would be different. This sentence does not actually have anything meaning "is like".

[LYTJAj]

Probably translate to sth like taste of onion is strong makes more sense

[soobee620]

Can someone explain the use of 나요 here? The hint says that it means "come out". Is 맛이 나요 idiomatic to mean "tastes like"?

[llewellyn.1]

There's actually lots of times where 나다 meaning "come out" is combined with something else to make a different word. I think of it as a compound word. Here you have "flavour" + "come out" = tastes like. 화 is anger, and 화나다 is to get angry. Memory is 기억 and 기억나다 is to remember. I think 나다 can more generally be translated as "to come up, arise, come forth" etc. Once you realise this you will see this 나다 in a lot of verbs!

[SaugatMalla]

This is a good explanation.

[ckoroma]

Idk if this helps but it reminds me of when I would watch cooking shows and the host would say that alcohol "brings out the flavor" of certain ingredients like meat. So maybe kind of like that? 양파 (onion) 맛이 (taste/flavor) 나요 (emanates/comes out) = the onion flavor comes out/emanates from the soup, thus one can taste the onion flavor -> the soup tastes like onion.