2022-04-08

Let’s learn about "어깨가 딱 벌어졌다”

1. 쟤 토니야? 어깨가 딱 벌어졌네, 이제 : Is that Tony? He looks so square-shouldered now / He has broad shoulders now / He has square shoulders now / He’s square-shouldered now

[other expressions]
- 쟤 토니니? (to younger people or friends)
- 쟤 토니냐? (to younger people or friends)
- 쟤 토니야? (to younger people or friends)
- 쟤 토니인가? (to younger people or friends)
- 쟤 토닌가? (to younger people or friends)
- 쟤 토니인가요? (honourific by ‘-요’)
- 쟤 토닌가요? (honourific by ‘-요’)
- 쟤 토니예요? (honourific by ‘-요’)
- 쟤 토니입니까? (formal; honourific by ‘-ㅂ’)

- 어깨가 딱 벌어졌다. 이제. (to younger people or friends)
- 어깨가 딱 벌어졌네. 이제. (to younger people or friends)
- 어깨가 딱 벌어졌어. 이제. (to younger people or friends)
- 어깨가 딱 벌어졌는데. 이제. (to younger people or friends)
- 어깨가 딱 벌어졌군! 이제. (to younger people or friends)
- 어깨가 딱 벌어졌구나! 이제. (to younger people or friends)
- 어깨가 딱 벌어졌네요. 이제. (honourific by ‘-요’)
- 어깨가 딱 벌어졌어요. 이제. (honourific by ‘-요’)
- 어깨가 딱 벌어졌는데요. 이제. (honourific by ‘-요’)
- 어깨가 딱 벌어졌군요! 이제. (honourific by ‘-요’)
- 어깨가 딱 벌어졌습니다. 이제. (formal; more honourific by ‘스’)

[explanations]
* 쟤 : a short form of 저 아이 <— 저(that) + 아이(child; boy; girl; human being; Korean call a human being who is younger than one’s age)

* 토니 : Tony
* -이다 : be

* 토닌가? : a short form of 토니인가?

* a noun + -이니? / -이냐? / -이야? / -인가? / -ㄴ가? : a non-honourific interrogative form of 이다
* a noun + -인가? / -ㄴ가? + -요 : an honourific ending suffix
* a noun + -예요? / -이에요? / -입니까? : an honourific interrogative form of 이다 by ‘-요’ / ‘-ㅂ’

* 그 사람 : that human being (non-honourific word); this omitted
* 그 분 : that human being (honourific word); this omitted
* -의 : a possesive particle; this omitted

* 이제 : now

* 어깨 : shoulder
* -가 : a particle makes 어깨 the topic of the sentence after a word ends in a vowel

* 벌어지다 : (1) [=넓어지다\ widen; get wider (2) [=심각해지자] get serious; [=커지다] get enlarged; [=퍼지다] spread; [=발전하다] develop; arise; [=발생하다] break out
(3) [=가로 벋거나 퍼지다] grow stout [firm]

* 바라지다 : a weak form of 벌어지다

* 벌어졌다 : past tense of 벌어지다 by ‘-였-‘

* 벌어졌습니다 : 벌어졌(the stem of 벌어졌다) + -스(a suffix makes a verb more honourific) + -ㅂ니다(an honourific descriptive verb ending suffix by ‘-ㅂ’)

* a verb + -다 / -네 / -어  /-는데 : a non-honourific descriptive verb ending suffix
* a verb + -군! / -구나! : a non-honourific exclamatory verb ending suffix
* a verb + -네 / -어 / -는데 / -군! + -요 : an honourific verb ending suffix
* a verb + -습니다 / -ㅂ니다 : an honourific descriptive verb ending suffix by ‘스’ / ‘-ㅂ’

2. 그동안 헬스를 열심히 다녔나봐 : I can tell he did a lot of weight training

[other expressions]
- 그동안 헬스를 열심히 다녔나보다. (to younger people or friends)
- 그동안 헬스를 열심히 다녔나보네. (to younger people or friends)
- 그동안 헬스를 열심히 다녔나봐. (to younger people or friends)
- 그동안 헬스를 열심히 다녔나보군! (to younger people or friends)
- 그동안 헬스를 열심히 다녔나보구나! (to younger people or friends)
- 그동안 헬스를 열심히 다녔나보네요. (honourific by ‘-요’)
- 그동안 헬스를 열심히 다녔나봐요. (honourific by ‘-요’)
- 그동안 헬스를 열심히 다녔나보군요! (honourific by ‘-요’)
- 그동안 헬스를 열심히 다녔나봅니다. (formal; more honourific by ‘스’)

[explanations]
* 그동안 = 그사이 = 그간 : the while; during that time; these [those] days; in the meantime
* 그 : that
* -동안 : during; for
* -사이 : between; among
* -간 : between; among

* 헬스 : health
* 열심 : [Pronunciation: 열씸] enthusiasm; zeal; ardor; eagerness; earnestness; keenness
* 열심히 : zealously; enthusiastically; ardently; earnestly; warmly; passionately; whole-heartedly; in an earnest manner

* 다니다 : (1) [=왕래하다] go to and from (a place); go to (a place) and back; make a trip to and from (a place); run; ply (between, from...to); walk about [around] (the street); be opened to traffic; be open for traffic (2) [=출석하다] attend (school); go to; [=출근하다] commute to (one's office)
(3) [=자주 가다] frequent; [=자주 방문하다] visit frequently; resort to; hang around; hang out at
(4) go on a round of; make a round of
(5) stop at (a place); [=잠시 방문하다•잠깐 들리다] drop in for a short visit; call at

- 나는 학교에 다닌다 : I go to school
- 아빠는 직장에 다닌다 : My dad goes to office
- 꼭 나는 횡단보도로 다닌다 : I always walk on the crosswalk
- 여기는 내가 학교 다닐 때 늘 다니던 책방이다 : This is the bookstore that I used to go to when I was in school 
- 올 때 시장에도 다녀서 오너라 : Go to the market when you come 
- 시집간 우리 딸이 오늘 다니러 왔다 : My married daughter came home today
- 어제 막내딸이랑 서울 구경을 다녔다 : I went sightseeing Seoul with my youngest daughter yesterday

* 헬스를 다니다 : do weight training in the health center

* 다녔다 : past tense of 다니다 by ‘-였-‘

* 다녔나보다 : 다녔(the stem of 다녔다) + -나보다

* -나보다 : [=거 같다•것 같다] seem; it seems that...; I think that...; I wonder if...; I'm afraid that
- 간나보다 : [=간 거 같다•간 것 같다] I think that he‘s gone

* -나보다 : more than me
- 그녀는 나보다 나이가 많아요 : She's older than me.

* 다녔나봐 : 다녔(the stem of 다녔다) + -나보(the stem of -나보다) + -아(a non-honourific descriptive verb ending suffix)
* 다녔나봅니다 : 다녔(the stem of 다녔다) + -나보(the stem of -나보다) + -ㅂ니다(an honourific descriptive verb ending suffix by ‘-ㅂ’)

* a verb + -다 / -네 / -아 : a non-honourific descriptive verb ending suffix
* a verb + -군! / -구나! : a non-honourific exclamatory verb ending suffix
* a verb + -네 / -아 / -군! + -요 : an honourific verb ending suffix
* a verb + -ㅂ니다 : an honourific descriptive verb ending suffix by ‘-ㅂ’

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