Let's learn about "결혼에 대해서 생각해 본 적이 없어요"

결혼에 대해서 생각해 본 적이 없어요 : I haven’t really thought about getting married

[other expressions]

1) to the younger people or a person of the same age as me 

- 결혼에 대해서 생각해 본 적이 없다. (to younger people or friends)

- 결혼에 대해서 생각해 본 적이 없네. (to younger people or friends)

- 결혼에 대해서 생각해 본 적이 없어. (to younger people or friends)

2) a person is older than me

- 결혼에 대해서 생각해 본 적이 없네요. (honourific by '-요')

- 결혼에 대해서 생각해 본 적이 없어요. (honourific by '-요')

- 결혼에 대해서 생각해 본 적이 없습니다. (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

* 전 : a short form of 저는

* 결혼 : [結婚] (a) marriage

* 결혼하다 : get married; marry

* -에 : a place suffix

* 대하다 : (1) [=대상으로 하다] (2) [=마주하다•마주 보다] face, look at, see (3) [=상대하다] treat

* 대했다 : past tense of 대하다 by '-었-'

- 이 문제에 대해 생각해 봅시다 : Let's think about this problem[issue]

- 그와는 얼굴도 대하고 싶지 않다 : I don't even want to see his face

- 그는 우리를 친형제처럼 대했다 : He treated us as his (own) brothers

* 관하다 : [=관계하다] be involved in; have a relationship with

* 대해(서) / 대하여(서) / 관해(서) / 관하여(서) : about

* 대해(서) : a short form of 대하여(서) <-- 대하(the stem of 대하다) + -여/-여서(A connective ending used when the preceding statement is the cause or reason for the following statement)

* 관해(서) : a short form of 관하여(서) <-- 관하(the stem of 관하다) + -여/-여서(A connective ending used when the preceding statement is the cause or reason for the following statement)

* 결혼에 대해(서) / 결혼에 대하여(서) / 결혼에 관해(서) / 결혼에 관하여(서) : about marriage

* 생각 : (1) [=사고(思考)] thinking; [=사상] (a) thought; ideas (2) [=관념·착상] an idea; a notion; a conception; a thought; [=취향] a plan; [=창의] initiative

* 생각하다 : think

* A를[을] B(으)로 생각하다 : think of A as B

- 나는 너를 친구로 생각한다 : I consider you a friend

- 저는 오빠를 가족으로 생각한다 : I think of oppa as a family

* 생각한 : past tense of 생각하다 by '-ㄴ'

* 적 : (1) [=때] the time (when); the occasion (2) [=경험] an experience

- 어릴 적[때]에 : in one's childhood[early days]

- 젊었을 적[때]에 : while one was young

- 그가 왔을 적[때]에는 내가 없었다 : When he came to see me I was away

- 서울에 가 본 적[경험]이 있습니까 : Have you ever been to Seoul?

- 여자가 그런 곳에 간 적[경험]이 있었을까 : Has a woman ever visited such a place? / Is there any precedent for a woman's visiting such a place?

- 그는 경주에서 이긴 적[경험]이 없다 : He has never once won a race

* (-이/-가) 있다 : [Pronunciation: 읻따; ㅅ + ㄷ should be always pronounced as 따] (1) be; exist; there is[are] (2) have in the sentence

* (-이/-가) 없다 : [Pronunciation: 업따; ㅅ + ㄷ should be always pronounced as 따] (1) be not ; noe exist; there is[are] not (2) don't have in the sentence

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

* a verb + -어 / -네 / - 다 : a non-honourific descriptive verb ending suffix

* a verb + -어 / -네 + -요 : honourific verb ending suffix

* a verb + -습니다 / -ㅂ니다 : an honourific descriptive verb ending suffix by '스-' / '-ㅂ'