2023-09-12

Let's learn about "내가 결혼할 때 알던 사람이 아니야"

내가 결혼할 때 알던 사람이 아니야 : He’s not the man I thought I married

[other expressions]
- 내가 결혼할 때 알던 사람이 아니다. (to younger people or friends)
- 내가 결혼할 때 알던 사람이 아니네. (to younger people or friends)
- 내가 결혼할 때 알던 사람이 아니야. (to younger people or friends)
- 제가 결혼할 때 알던 사람이 아니네요. (honourific by ‘-요’)
- 제가 결혼할 때 알던 사람이 아니에요. (honourific by ‘-요’)
- 제가 결혼할 때 알던 사람이 아닙니다. (formal; honourific by ‘ㅂ’)

[explanations]
* 내 : I (non-honourific word)
* 제 : I (honourific word)
* -가 : a particle makes 내 / 제 the topic of the sentence after a word ends in a vowel

* 결혼 : [結婚] (a) marriage
* 결혼하다 : get married; marry
* 결혼할 : 결혼하(the stem of 결혼하다) + -ㄹ(a suffix of a word that makes the preceding statement function as an adnominal phrase; a suffix makes a verb attributive)

* 때 : when; the time

* 알다 : know
* 알던 : 알(the stem of 알다) + -던(An ending of a word that makes the preceding statement function as an adnominal phrase and implies that an event or action has not been completed in the past but has been stopped)

* 사람 : human being; a person (non-honourific word)
* 분 : human being; a person (honourific word)

* -이 : a particle makes 사람 subjective after a word ends in a consonant

* (-이/-가) 아니다 : be not <--> 이다(be)

* 아닙니다 : 아니(the stem of 아니다) + -ㅂ니다(an honourific descriptive verb ending suffix)

* a verb + -다 / -네 / -야 : a non-honourific descriptive verb ending suffix
* a verb + -네 + -요 : an honourific ending suffix
* a verb + -에요 / ㅂ니다 : an honourific descriptive verb ending suffix by ‘-요’ / ‘-ㅂ’

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