2022-12-26

Let's learn about "나중에 얘기하는 게 낫겠어"

나중에 얘기하는 게 낫겠어 : Maybe it's better to talk later

[other expressions]
- 나중에 얘기하는 게 낫겠다. (to younger people or friends)
- 나중에 얘기하는 게 낫겠네. (to younger people or friends)
- 나중에 얘기하는 게 낫겠어. (to younger people or friends)
- 나중에 얘기하는 게 낫겠는데. (to younger people or friends)
- 나중에 얘기하는 게 낫겠군! (to younger people or friends)
- 나중에 얘기하는 게 낫겠구나! (to younger people or friends)
- 나중에 얘기하는 게 낫겠네요. (honourific by ‘요’)
- 나중에 얘기하는 게 낫겠어요. (honourific by ‘요’)
- 나중에 얘기하는 게 낫겠군요! (honourific by ‘요’)
- 나중에 얘기하는 게 낫겠습니다. (formal; more honourific by ‘스’)

[explanations]
* 우리 : We (non-honourific word)
* 저희 : We (honourific word)
* -는 : a particle makes 우리 / 저희 subjective after a word ends in a vowel

* 나중 : later
* -에 : a time particle

* 얘기 : a short form of 이야기(story; talk)
* 얘기하다 = 이야기하다 : talk

* 얘기하는 : 얘기하(the stem of 얘기하다) + -는(a suffix makes a verb present tense and attributive before a noun)

* 게 : a short form of 것이
* 것 : a thing
* -이 : a particle makes 것 the topic of the sentence after a word ends in a consonant

* 낫다 : (1) [...보다 좋다] be better (than); be superior to [over]; be preferable (to); surpass; excel; exceed; best; have the advantage of, gain [win] an advantage over (2) [=회복하다] get [become] well; recover from an illness; be restored to health; be cured of (a disease); heal (up); be healed

* 낫겠습니다 : 낫(the stem of 낫다) + -겠(one’s conjecture) + -스(a suffix makes a verb more honourific) + -ㅂ니다(an honourific descriptive verb ending suffix)

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

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