-군요 Ending
-군요 Ending
Definition
This ending is used to show the listener that what just occurred—new information—has been acknowledged in the mental faculty of a speaker, especially through introspective reasoning rather than emotion. For example, the English teacher, Mr Keating, from the movie “Dead Poet’s Society” (I love the movie to death) takes you on a tour around the Vermont boarding school, and have you stand in front of the picture frame of those students who left their footprints a century ago, and whispers “Carpe Diem”. This ending might come in handy if you were hit by an epiphany that you are to seize the day to live a fulfilling life.
“인생을 이렇게 사는 거 군요.”
"This is the way to live a life”
Since his teaching registered in your head and you’ve processed it, you can be exclamatory in this way by letting the other person you’ve understood. The ending makes a sentence sound more like having a monologue with yourself out loud.
Formula
This ending can be used in all tenses, and the formula is as follows for active verbs like eat, drink, or go:
- Present Tense: -는군요
- Past Tense: -았/었군요
The formula for descriptive verbs like to be beautiful, majestic, out of the world is:
- Present Tense: -군요
- Past Tense: -았/었군요
In the casual form of speech (반말), you can use -구나 ending to conjugate the verb.
“아, 그녀는 정말 천사처럼 아름답구나!”
"Oh, she is really beautiful like an angel."
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2019년 1월 15일
