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What date is it?
Please look at my 3 translations of "What date is it?"
오늘 몇월 며칠이에요? (1)
오늘 며춸 며칠이에요? (2)
오늘 몇월 몇일이에요? (3)
Is translation (1) correct?
I think (1) is correct, but why is the ㅊon the place of the silent consonant in 며칠 but not at 몇월
2016년 8월 25일 오후 12:53
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오늘 몇월 며칠이에요? (1)
(1) is correct as you say (but 몇월 should be written as 몇 월 with a space).
It is a question often asked by native speakers too because it seems to defy common sense.
How it came to be 며칠 is said to be unknown - it is spelled this way primarily because it is the established pronunciation.
To fully understand it, you must know some pronunciation rules, like 몇 월 being pronounced as [며둴], not [며춸].
This is because pronunciation of 받침 (consonant at the bottom) goes through "consonant folding" at word boundaries, as in 몇 월 -> [멷월] -> [며둴] (ㄷ,ㅅ,ㅊ,ㅊ,ㅌ cnanges to ㄷ; ㄱ,ㅋ to ㄱ; and ㅂ,ㅍ to ㅂ).
According to this rule, if 몇 일 was the correct word, the pronunciation would be [면닐] (몇 일 -> [멷일] -> [면닐]), because the 이([i]) sound in 일 has the special effect of taking on ㄴ sound and changing the preceding ㄷ to ㄴ But the traditional actual pronunciation has been [며칠], which precludes 몇 일.
It might be because of the high frequency of usage that made it change to 며칠, Whatever the reason, 며칠 is the right pronunciation and spelling, and 몇 일 should never be used. So you should just remember 몇 월 며칠 as a special exception.
2016년 8월 25일
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