2022-12-14

Let's learn about "태어날 때부터 하얀 편이에요"

태어날 때부터 (피부가) 하얀 편이에요 : I naturally have light skin; I was born with fair skin.

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A. 화장한 건가요, 아니면 원래 피부가 하얀 편인가요? : Is it the makeup or do you naturally have light skin?

B. 원래 태어날 때부터 피부가 하얀 편이에요 : I was born with fair skin

[other expressions]
- 태어날 때부터 (피부가) 하얀 편이다. (to younger people or friends)
- 태어날 때부터 (피부가) 하얀 편이네. (to younger people or friends)
- 태어날 때부터 (피부가) 하얀 편이야. (to younger people or friends)
- 태어날 때부터 (피부가) 하얀 편이네요. (honourific by '요')
- 태어날 때부터 (피부가) 하얀 편이에요. (honourific by '요')
- 태어날 때부터 (피부가) 하얀 편입니다. (formal; more honourific by '-스')

[explanations]
* 나 : I (non-honourific word)
* 저 : I (honourific word)
* -는 : a particle makes 새해 subjective after a word ends in a vowel

* 태어나다 : be born; come into being[existence / world]; see the light
* 태어날 : 태어나(the stem of 태어나다) + -ㄹ(a suffix makes a verb attributive)
* 때 : when; the time
* 부터 : from

* 태어날 때부터 : from birth

* 피부 : skin
* -가 : a particle makes 피부 the topic of the sentence after a word ends in a consonant

* 하얀 : white; light (skin)
* 하얗다 : [Pronunciation: 하야따] (1) pure white; snow(y)-white; (as) white as snow; immaculately white (2) (someone's skin) be light/fair
- 하얀 시트 : an immaculate sheet
- 문을 하얗게 칠하다 : paint a door white
- 그녀의 머리가 하얗다 : Her hair is snow-white
- 일어나 보니 눈이 하얗게 쌓여 있었다 : I awoke to find the ground covered over with white snow
- 피부가 하얗다 : have a light skin; have a fair skin

* 편[便] : (1) a side; a part; a direction; a way (2) a party; a side; a team (3) [=경향] tendency

* 이다 : be

* 입니다 : 이(the stem of 이다)  + -ㅂ니다(an honourific descriptive verb ending suffix)

* a noun + -이다 / -이네 / -이야 : a non-honourific descriptive form of 이다
* a noun + -이네 + -요 : an honourific verb ending suffix
* a noun +  -이에요 / -입니다 : an honourific descriptive form of 이다  by '-ㅂ'

* -이에요 : this is used after a noun word end in a consonant
- 동안이네요 : You look younger than your age

* -예요 : this is used after a noun word end in a vowel
- 손님이 주문하신 커피예요 : This is the coffee you ordered

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