2023-07-18

Let's learn about "첫눈에 반했어요"

첫눈에 반했어요 : It was love at first sight: We clicked immediately; I fell in love when I first laid my eyes on you

[other expressions]
- 첫눈에 반했다. (to younger people or friends)
- 첫눈에 반했네. (to younger people or friends)
- 첫눈에 반했어. (to younger people or friends)
- 첫눈에 반했네요. (honourific by '-요')
- 첫눈에 반했어요. (honourific by '-요')
- 첫눈에 반했습니다.. (formal; more honourific by '스')

[explanations]
* 나 : I (non-honourific word to younger people or friends)
* 저 : I (honourific word to the elderly)
* -는 : a particle makes 나 / 저 subjective after a word ends in a vowel; when this omitted, the sentence is more natural

* 난 : a short form of 나는; this omitted
* 전 : a short form of 저는; this omitted

* 첫 : first
* 눈 : (1) [low long tone] snow (2) [high short tone] eye in the sentence
* 첫눈 : (1) [=일견] a first look[glance / glimpse / sight] (2) [=초설] the first snow(fall) of the season
- 그는 첫눈에 그 여자한테 반했다 : He fell in love with her at first sight
- 나는 첫눈에 그 집이 마음에 들었다 : I took a fancy to the house at first sight
- 어젯밤에 첫눈이 내렸다 : It snowed last night for the first time this year
* -에 : a time suffix means "at"

* 첫눈에 : at first view, at preliminary glance, at first sight
- 우린 서로 첫눈에 반했어요 : It was love at first sight

* 반하다 : (1) [=연모하다] fall in love ; be enamored ; be attached ; take a fancy ; lose one's heart ;  be taken ; be keen ; fall for; be mashed on (2) [=감탄하다] admire; be charmed; [=넋을 잃다] forget oneself; be entranced[enraptured]
- 첫눈에 반하다 : fall in love at first sight / take a fancy at first meeting
- 홀딱 반하다 : be madly in love with
- 그는 그 여자에게 반해[미쳐]있다 : He is infatuated with [crazy about] that woman
- 그는 이양한테 홀딱 반한 것 같다 : He seems to be pretty gone on Miss Lee
- 두 사람은 서로가 홀딱 반했다 : The two are deeply in love with each other
- 그는 그녀에게 홀딱 반했다 : He is quite keen on her. / He is quite taken with her. / He's head over heels in love with[crazy about] her
- 그는 자기가 반한 여자와 결혼했다 : He was married to the woman of his heart
- 그녀는 그 남자한테 반해 있다 : She is soft about[on] that boy
- 아름다운 목소리에 반하다 : be entranced with sweet voice
- 그녀의 아름다운 목소리에 반했다 : I was fascinated [charmed] by his beautiful voice
- 나는 그녀의 인품[됨됨이]에 반했다 : I was captivated [charmed] by her personality
- 나는 그의 인품에 홀딱 반해서 그에게 장사를 모두 맡겼다 : Deeply impressed with his character, I left my business entirely in his charge

* 반했다 : past tense of 반하다 by '-었-'

* 반했습니다 : 반했(the stem of 반했다) + -스(a suffix makes a verb more honourific) + -ㅂ니다(an honourific descriptive verb ending suffix)

* a verb + -ㄴ다 / -네 / -어 / -아 : a non-honourific descriptive verb ending suffix
* a verb + -네 / -어 / -아 + -요 : an honourific ending suffix
* a verb + -습니다 / -십니다 / -ㅂ니다 : an honourific descriptive verb ending suffix by '스-' / '시-' / '-ㅂ'

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