Classiko
please help with this expression I don't understand 걸 when it comes at the end and no verb comes after it, I see it in many song lyrics but I think It's also used in daily life. - please explain to me when do you use such expression and some examples would be appreciated too. examples - 언제나처럼 , 너무 아름다운 걸. - 어쩔수 없는걸.
Feb 6, 2014 2:00 PM
Answers · 4
I laughed when I read my comment again , I mean nominalisation and not nationalisation,. I know thatㄴ/는 modifies nouns,thanks for explaining that, but the problem is when I see ㄴ/는+걸 and also 을+걸 at the end and the sentence is finished with it , - thanks for your comment again.
February 8, 2014
-ㄴ/는 is very common in Korean, not just in songs, but used everywhere. It is what you add to a verb stem to make in an adjective so it can modify the noun 것 or any other noun. In your example, 아름다운 것, 아름답다 is the adjective "to be beautiful", and it becomes 아름다우 + -ㄴ to make the adjective "beautiful". And then you can put the noun 것, 걸, or any other noun after it. Same thing with 어쩔 수 없는 걸. The verb 없다 changes to 없는 so that it can modify 걸. Hope that helps.
February 8, 2014
thank you Mojave for commenting, I think ㄴ는걸 is an ending that comes at the end and have a special meaning,I think it's the nationalisation ㄴ는것 plus을 - I hear it almost every day in songs but I really can't get the meaning, -thanks for reminding me about 걸 that means girl, they pronounce it right (geurl) in songs and in most cases I can differentiate it.
February 7, 2014
걸 could be "girl" or "thing", which is 것 with the object particle 을 = 것을 or 걸 in contracted form. It depends on the context of the rest of the lyrics
February 6, 2014
Still haven’t found your answers?
Write down your questions and let the native speakers help you!