Let's learn about "흔치 않은 제품입니다"

흔치 않은 제품입니다 = 흔하지 않은 제품입니다 : These are by no means cheap; Those things aren’t sold everywhere; You can’t find them just anywhere; You won’t see these every day; You won’t be able to find these anywhere around here.

[other expressions]

<반말(talking down to)>

- 흔치 않은 제품이다. (to younger people or friends)

- 흔치 않은 제품이네. (to younger people or friends)

- 흔치 않은 제품이야. (to younger people or friends)

- 흔하지 않은 제품이다. (to younger people or friends)

- 흔하지 않은 제품이네. (to younger people or friends)

- 흔하지 않은 제품이야. (to younger people or friends)

<존칭/존댓말/높임말/경어(honorific)>

- 흔치 않은 제품이네요. (honourific by ‘-요’)

- 흔치 않은 제품이에요. (honourific by ‘-요’)

- 흔치 않은 제품입니다. (formal; honourific by ‘ㅂ’)

- 흔하지 않은 제품이네요. (honourific by ‘-요’)

- 흔하지 않은 제품이에요. (honourific by ‘-요’)

- 흔하지 않은 제품입니다. (formal; honourific by ‘ㅂ’)

* [Memo]

* Extreme honorifics(극존칭) are not used when the subject(주어) is not a person(사람). In other words, extreme honorifics(극존칭) are used only when the subject(주어) is a person(사람) :  주어가 사람이 아닌 경우는 극존칭을 사용하지 않는다. 즉, 주어가 사람인 경우에만 극존칭을 사용한다

[explanations]

* 결코 ~이 아닌 = 결코 ~가 아닌 : by no means

* 결코 : never

* -이 : a particle makes XX the topic of the dentence after a word ends in a consonant

* -가 : a particle makes XX the topic of the dentence after a word ends in a vowel

* 아니다 : be not

* 아닌 : 아니(the stem of 아니다) + -ㄴ(a suffix makes a verb attributive/adnominal)

* 이거 : a short form of 이거는/이것은

* 이게 can be replaced by 이건

* 이건 : a short form of 이것은

* 이것 : this (thing)

* -는 : a particle makes 이거 subject after a word ends in a vowel

* -은 : a particle makes 이것 subject after a word ends in a consonant

* 흔한 : common; commonplace

* 흔하다 : be common; be commonplace

- 그것은 흔치 않은 광경이었다 : It was not a common sight

- 이런 유형의 문제는 꽤 흔하다./이런 유형의 문제들은 꽤 흔하다 : This sort of problem is quite common. / These sorts of problems are quite common

- 이런 태도는 25세 이하의 사람들 사이에서 흔하다 :This attitude is common among the under-25s

* 흔하지 : 흔하(the stem of 흔하다) + -지(a connection suffix makes a verb negative meaning before a verb means negative nuance)

* 흔치 : a short form of 흔하지; ㅎ + ㅈ can be usually contracted into ㅊ

* 않다 : [Pronunciation: 안타] be not; never

* 않는다 : present form of 않다 by '-는-'

* 않았다 : past tense of 않다 by '-았-'

* 않은 : 않(the stem of 않다) + -은(a suffix makes a verb attributive/adnominal)

* 제품 : [製品] : manufactured goods [articles]; manufactures; finished goods

* -이다 : be

* 입니다 : 이(the stem of 이다) + -ㅂ니다(an honourific descriptive verb ending suffix)

* a noun + -(이)다 / -(이)네 / -(이)야 : a non-honourific descriptive form of 이다

* a noun + -(이)네 + -요 : an honourific verb ending suffix

* a noun + -이에요 / -예요 / -입니다 : an honourific descriptive form of 이다 by ‘-요’ / ‘-ㅂ'

* -이에요 : this is used after a word ends in a consonant

ex) 생각뿐이에요 : I think of you only

* -예요 : : this is used after a word ends in a vowel

ex) 바다예요 : this is the sea