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🇰🇷 Korean · Fluency Level 2

PART 2 · LESSON 20 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

Ten proverbs

A Sunday supper at the Kims' flat, Grandma's test of ten proverbs for ten rice cakes: ten proverbs, ten rice cakes, miss one and Min-jun eats it, there's no way he gets all ten, a word with no feet, goes a thousand li, there's no way Grandma knows only ten, nine, there's no way he misses the tenth, a man who's eaten nine rice cakes, there's no such proverb, there is now, he gives the tenth to his grandmother.

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THE STORY

A Sunday supper at the Kims' flat in Mangwon, Grandma at the head of the table with a plate of ten rice cakes; Grandma speaks casually to everyone, Eli respectfully to her, Min-jun and Su-a casually to Eli and respectfully to Grandma.

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속담 열 개, 떡 열 개. 틀리면 민준이가 먹는다.sok-ttam yeol gae, tteok yeol gae. teul-li-myeon min-ju-ni-ga meong-neun-da.Ten proverbs, ten rice cakes. Miss one and Min-jun eats it.
열 개 다 맞힐 리가 없어.yeol gae da ma-chil li-ga eop-sseo.There's no way he gets all ten.
발 없는 말이?bal eom-neun ma-ri?A word with no feet?
발 없는 말이 천 리 간다.bal eom-neun ma-ri cheon ri gan-da.Goes a thousand li.
할머니가 열 개만 아실 리가 없어.hal-meo-ni-ga yeol gae-man a-sil li-ga eop-sseo.There's no way Grandma knows only ten.
아홉. 열 번째를 틀릴 리가 없지.a-hop. yeol beon-jjae-reul teul-lil li-ga eop-jji.Nine. There's no way he misses the tenth.
떡 아홉 개 먹은 사람은?tteok a-hop gae meo-geun sa-ra-meun?A man who's eaten nine rice cakes?
그런 속담은 없어요.geu-reon sok-tta-meun eop-sseo-yo.There's no such proverb.
이제 있다. 열 번째는 할머니한테 드린다.i-je it-tta. yeol beon-jjae-neun hal-meo-ni-han-te deu-rin-da.There is now. He gives the tenth to his grandmother.