This lesson will teach you how to count events or actions. Things that happened once, twice, thrice, four times, five times, six times, etc. We start with the Native Korean numbers.
Then, we cut off the last letter of each of the first four numbers.
We re-arrange ha-n so it is all in one syllable block.
Numbers five and up stay just the way they are.
Now we add the suffix beon. which means time.
AND WE'RE DONE!
Postscript
Do you like Korean music? If so, you've probably heard of the KPOP groups GOT7 and Twice from the JYPEntertainment company.
When Korean fans pronounce GOT7 they say it like "Got Se-ben" because the Korean language has no "V" sound. "Seben" sounds a lot like the word for thrice: se-beon. So they've got something that sounds like thrice, and then what does the company name the new girl group?
Twice.
Pretty clever, eh?
Their name translated into Korean would be du-beon.
However, the company tells us they are actually called Twice because the audience enjoys them "once through their ears and twice through their eyes."
I'm just speculating, but I feel like this explaination may have been written after the name was chosen.
Thanks for studying with me.
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