2024-10-28

Let's learn about "3중 추돌 사고였어요"

3중 추돌 사고였어요 : It was a three-car collision; The collision was with three cars

ex)

A. 어느 정도 사고였습니까? : How big was the accident?

B. 3중 충돌 사고였어요 : It was a three-car collision

[other expressions]
<반말(talking down to)>
- 3중 추돌 사고였다. (to younger people or friends)
- 3중 추돌 사고였네. (to younger people or friends)
- 3중 추돌 사고였어. (to younger people or friends)
- 3중 추돌 사고였는데! (to younger people or friends)

<존칭/존댓말/높임말/경어(honorific)>
- 3중 추돌 사고였네요. (honourific by ‘-요’)
- 3중 추돌 사고였어요. (honourific by ‘-요’)
- 3중 추돌 사고였는데요! (honourific by ‘-요’)

<극존칭(high honorific; extreme honorific)>
- 3중 추돌 사고였습니다. (formal; more honourific by '스')

[explanations]
* 내 : my (non-honourific word); a short form of 나의
* 제 : my (honourific word); a short form of 나의
* 나 : I (non-honourific word)
* 저 : I (honourific word)
* -의 : a suffix makes 나 / 저 possesive like 나의/저의(my)

* 차 : [車] [=탈 것] a vehicle; a carriage; a conveyance; [=자동차] a motorcar; an automobile; a car; [=택시] a taxi; a van; a wagon; a lorry; a truck

* -는 : a particle makes 차 the topic of the sentence after a word ends in a vowel

* 3중 : [Pronunciation: 삼중] a three-car collision

* 중- : [重] [접두사(prefix)] 《일부 명사 앞에 붙어(attached bedore some nouns)》 (1) [겹쳤거나 합쳤음을 나타냄] overlap; repeat (2) [크고 무겁거나 중대함을 나타냄] heavy; high; great; serious
- 중모음.: a double vowel; a triple vowel
- 중노동 : heavy labor, hard labor
- 중장비 : heavy equipment

* -중 : [重] [접미사(postfix)] 《일부 명사 뒤에 붙어(attached after some nouns)》 (1) [겹쳤거나 합쳤음을 나타냄] overlap; repeat
- 2중 추돌 : two-car collision
- 3중 추돌 : three-car collision

* 추돌 : [追突] a rear-end collision; a bump
- 추돌을 당하여 차가 대파되었다 : Struck from behind, the car was damaged badly

* 추돌하다 : collide[run into] from behind
- 추돌하지 않도록 주의하시오 : Drive (your car) carefully so as not to collide with another car from behind.

* 사고 [事故] (1) [=나쁜 사건] an accident; [=비교적 작은 불행한 사건] a mishap; [=진행 등의 뜻하지 않은 지장] a hitch; an incident; an untoward event; a crack-up; trouble (2) [=사정·까닭] circumstances; reasons
- 교통 사고 : a traffic accident
- 사고를 일으키다 : cause an accident
- 비행기 사고를 당하다 : be in an airplane accident

* 이다 : be

* 였다 : past tense of 였다 by '-였-'; -었- changed into -였- for easy pronunciation <-- a short form of 이었다

* 였는데요 : 였(the stem of 였다) + -는데(a suffix has a nuance of hesitation to say other people; this used after the stem of a verb ends in a vowel) + -요(an honourific ending suffix)
* 였습니다 : 였(the stem of 였다) + 스(a suffix makes a verb honourific) + -ㅂ니다(an honourific descriptive verb ending suffix)

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

* 정면 : [正面] the front[face]; the frontage; the front part; the facade
- 호텔의 정면 현관[입구] : the front entrance[door] of a hotel
- 정면으로 : [=직접] directly / [=똑바로] straight / [=마주 대하여] to one's face / right in one's face
- 적을 정면에서 공격하다 : make a frontal attack on the enemy
- 계획에 정면으로 반대하다 : oppose a plan squarely [openly]
- …의 얼굴을 정면으로 쳐다보다 : look a person (straight / full) in the face
- 어려운 문제에 정면으로 부딪치다 : tackle a difficult problem head-on[squarely]

* 충돌 : [ 衝突] (1) [=서로 맞부딪침] a collision; a clash; a bump; an impact; [몇 대의 차의] a pileup (2) [=불일치·불화] a conflict; a clash; a collision; a discord; a feud; a quarrel
- 3중 충돌 : a three-way collision
- 정면 충돌 : a frontal clash / a head-on collision
- 자동차의 충돌 : a car crash
- 연쇄 충돌 : a multicar collision / a pileup
- 군사적 충돌 : a military collision
- 무력 충돌 : an armed conflict
- 감정의 충돌 : an emotional[a temperamental] clash
- 이해의 충돌 : a conflict[clash] of interests
- 의견의 충돌 : a conflict of opinions / a collision of views

* 충돌하다 : collide[come into collision] ; run[smash / crash / bump]
- 정면으로 충돌하다 : clash[collide] head-on 
- 충돌하여 침몰하게 하다 : run down
- 5,6대의 차가 연쇄 충돌했다 : There was a pileup of five or six cars. / Five or six cars were involved in a pileup
- 두 대의 자동차가 정면 충돌했다 : The two cars collided head-on[had a head-on collision]
- 나는 상점에서 튀어나온 사나이와 충돌했다 : I collided with a man who dashed out of a shop

* 정면 충돌 : head-on collision

* 어느 : how much

* 정도 : [正道] [정 : low picth and long sound] the right path[way / track]
- 정도에 어긋나는 행위 : an unrighteous[unjust] act
- 정도를 밟다 : tread the path of righteousness[virtue] / be righteous[upright]
- 정도로 이끌다 : guide into the right path
- 그는 어쩌다가 정도에서 벗어났다 : On the spur of the moment he strayed[deviated] from the right path

* 정도 : [程度] [middle picth and short sound] (a) degree; extent; a level; rate; (a) grade; (a) standard
- 생활 정도 : the standard of living / living standard
- 지능 정도 : the intellectual standard
- 손해의 정도 : the extent of loss[damage]
- 고교 졸업 정도의 학력  :academic ability equal to that of a high school graduate
- 정도가 높다[낮다] : be of high[low] standard[grade]

* 사고였습니까? : 사고 + 였(the stem of 였다) + -스(a suffix makes a verb more honourific; 스 + -ㅂ contracted into 습) + -ㅂ니까?(an honourific interrogative verb ending suffix)

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