2023-06-13

Let's learn about "토요일마다 테니스를 쳐요"

토요일마다 (친구들과) 테니스를 쳐요 : My friends and I get together to play tennis on Saturdays; On Saturdays, I play tennis with my friends; I play tennis every Saturday.

* 토요일마다 : every Saturday / on Saturdays

[other expressions]
- 토요일마다 (친구들과) 테니스를 친다. (to younger people or friends)
- 토요일마다 (친구들과) 테니스를 치네. (to younger people or friends)
- 토요일마다 (친구들과) 테니스를 쳐. (to younger people or friends)
- 토요일마다 (친구들과) 테니스를 치네요. (honourific by ‘-요’)
- 토요일마다 (친구들과) 테니스를 쳐요. (honourific by ‘-요’)
- 토요일마다 (친구들과) 테니스를 칩니다. (formal; more honourific by ‘-스’)

[explanations]
* 토요일 : [土曜日] Saturday
* 토 : a short form of 토요일
* 요일 : [曜日] a day of the week
- 그 날은 무슨 요일입니까? : What day (of the week) is that?
- 무슨 요일이든 좋습니다 : Any day (of the week) will do (for me)
- 「오늘은 무슨 요일입니까?」 「수요일입니다」 : "What day (of the week) is it today[What is today]?" "It's Wednesday."

* -마다 : [=낱낱이] each; every; all

* 친구 : [親舊] a friend; [=동지] a companion; a mate; a fellow; a comrade; a pal; a chum; [=교우] a circle; company
* -들 : a suffix makes a noun plural; It is the same etymology as the "-t"(-트) of the Central Asian or Buriyat languages
- 부리 부족 / 부리 사람들 : Buriyat <-- Buri(부리) + -at(부족: tribe, 사람들: people)

* -과 : (1) and (2) with

* 테니스 : tennis
* -를 : a particle makes a noun objective after a word ends in a vowel

* 치다 : (1) hit (2) play (games like badminton, tennis) in the sentence

* 배드민턴을 치다 = 배드민턴치다 : play badminton
* 테니스를 치다 = 테니스치다 : play tennis

* 쳐 : 치(the stem of 치다; 치 + 여 contracted into 쳐) + -여(a non-honourific descriptive verb ending suffix)
* 치네요 : 치(the stem of 치다; 치 + 여 contracted into 쳐) + -여(a descriptive verb ending suffix) + -요(an honourific ending suffix)
* 칩니다 : 치(the stem of 치다) + -ㅂ니다(an honourific descriptive verb ending suffix)

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

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