Korean Q&A - 니가 [ni-ga] vs. 네가 [ne-ga] - How are they different?

hello guys I'm here once again to answer some of your very interesting Korean questions so let's go hello I'm Jana from talktomeinkorean dot-com any audio talktomeinkorean.com is our website where you can learn Korean so with the introduction out of the way here are the four questions that I'm going to answer in this video and the first one came in from Georgina Donna so what is the difference between matsuda and Matt Heda so of course you write it as much heat up but you read it as much Tschida so because the pronunciations of these two words are so similar actually a lot of Korean native speakers get these two mixed up all the time and even broadcasters and even actors singers who should know the language fairly well they make mistakes between these two so what are matsuda and Machida so basically both Matsuda and Machida are based on Mata so if you wear a certain piece of clothing if it mata mushi Maho it means it fits you it matches you it fits the size of your body right Mata so that's Mata and also if you're talking about guessing the answer of a quick question or when you are basically guessing and if your answer where guess work was correct that's the correct kind of Mata so this mata is to fit and this model is to be correct so these two matters have two different types of causative forms so matsuda means to make something fit and matte cheetah or Machida a natural pronunciation it means to make something correct okay so much that means to match something so if there are puzzle pieces you match all my truth out and you say much oil check out my choice oil you put them together put the puzzle pieces together and if you guess something correctly you can say ah mad Chuck so you okay I'm sure you can hear the similarities but also see the differences using the text written on the screen so once again even Korean native speakers they also make mistakes using these two expressions correctly so don't worry if you make a mistake using these and just remember they're based on Matta the next question came in from Michaela Pereira creature explained why we is translated to my as in Yama so this is an interesting well cultural difference so when you say woody of course it literally means us or we or our depending on what word follows woody so women it means we are so and so and woody pan means our class we have to our school so it should be just fairly simple Rudy is our but in actual conversations you will notice that people say Rudy when it should be my a classic example would be when you say woody wiper so wiper means wife or woody on a hoody on it and if you actually analyze it it's weird because it means our wife as if someone were actually a shared wife between two people so it would be weird in most countries right so the same goes for redemption okay our husband so whoever is saying that is not meaning that the husband is shared in any way it means my husband my well wife so why do people say that it's because when people say woody it doesn't mean you the listener and me the speaker in many cases Budi means our family like you versus me or you versus us so not always this is important not always but in many cases woody you when people say that it includes the speaker but excludes the listener and interestingly there's another term for we or us which is tall he Soto he is used when you're talking to an outsider obvious outsider and you're talking about for example our school and the person who's listening is not part of the school you can say so he had curious and then tell he write while being polite and if you want to include the listener Rita melatonin so in that case it is wrong to say toity methionine does it automatically throw the person out of the team right so how are you read we have these distinctions but again in normal everyday conversation day to day interactions people say would be all the time and it has basically two meanings us including everybody and us including my team only okay so that's why it is translated into English as my mother my team my wife my husband and it should be in the case of husbands and wives and this next question is the one that you saw in the title of this video and also in the thumbnail so this came in from zq 15v bubblegum and i was wondering what the difference between Liga and mega please so please show an example thank you so this is a very common question and I've answered the same question in person to many many people but I don't think I've ever actually addressed it in a Q&A video so good question thank you so when you want to say you in casual language Pam Meyer that no okay no and when you want to add the subject marker cup it should be null cup and a lot of young people children they often say that in some regions people say Naga Naga to say you are you do something so you is no and kyster something marker but in standard Korean writing it should be this okay this and the pronunciation is supposed to be something like mega mega versus mega I so you can see the similarities mega like eye and makeup and I'm not even entirely sure whether I am actually representing the sounds correctly so mega and mega since these are so similar people started kind of pronouncing this word or this expression in a different way and people say nikka so in text messages or casual social media posts people actually write Nika Nika but in textbooks or in is drama lines or line books and stones and stuff like that you often see this one mega mega but nobody ever says that in real life if someone was to actually use that people would be confused and they would verify like you mean I or you so people always 100 percent if it's not 100 percent it's 99.999% it's mega in pronunciation and written as mega and the last question came in from Lisa so when you add tap to a verb it becomes like let's do this the answer is partially yes because you don't add tab to a verb you have to conjugate it so you take the verb stem and then add tap and this also only works in casual language which we call combine pun meaning 1/2 so 1/2 language it's shorter so in Palma you can say things like for example if you have the verb mopped up to eat you can drop top so if you drop top what is remaining is the verb stem in those cases so mop is the verb stem and you add half mocked-up so bhakti means let's eat so for example cada is to go so drop top where you have car so how do you say let's go catch up pulled up is to see to look to watch so you drop top where you have pool and you say put up and also to do is ha ha ha de is actually the most versatile Korean verb and you can attach it to many Korean nouns to form new verbs so ha ha ha ha changes to ha ha so again you don't put tack at the end of a verb the whole verb but drop top and then add and this is only Tamil for formal speech polite speech from them and you say ah yo or oh you or yo yo so hey woody go hallo he go tayo things like that and there are other bonus for for Pam my you're good to go so these are all the questions for this video please sending us questions on Twitter at TPM ITA and if you happen to take some pictures of how you study please share those pictures without so that we can maybe retweet maybe we can see how you're studying and what kind of books you are using in addition to a horror book as well so thank you so much for studying with us and I will be back with another video very soon I'm talking about bye [Music]

Channel: Talk To Me In Korean

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Id: 4UKD_JGk04w

Length: 9min 23sec (563 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 17 2017

Reddit Comments

[u/lianlian20]

so, Korean also has inborn N-word pass? OkayBruh

[u/einskrub]

Theres a pera ban coming soon monkaH

[u/invisibleglass321]

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[u/dec322]

Even mandarin say that word..