This lesson is on ordinal numbers like first, second, third fourth, etc. We will learn how to say them in both the Native Korean and the Sino-Korean numbering systems. Let's start with the Native Korean.
Now, when we are talking about the order of things we can talk about the order of actions or events in time, or we can talk about the order of objects in physical space. For example, I can say "she is going to Korea for the third time." That is an event in ordered in time. Or, I can say "this is the third strawberry from the left." That is its order in physical space. In English we can use the same word "third" for both situations. In Korean we must use a different word for "third" depending on whether things are arranged in time or in space.
Let's learn how to order things in time. Remember last lesson where I taught you how to say once, twice, thrice, four times, five times,...
Well we're going to start out the same way.
We take the native numbers, and cut off the last letter of the first four, and to all of them we add -beon, which means "times". This is just like last lesson.
Then, we add -jjae to the end.
We are almost done! Just one little thing: first does not start with "han". We change the beginning of the word to cheot. To say first you say cheot-beon-jjae.
And now we're done.
That is how you make the ordinal numbers when describing events in time. Remember beon means "time".
Start with the native numbers. Change hana to cheot, and add -jjae to the end. AND WE'RE DONE! The first four numbers get to keep their last letter this time.
Now the Sino Korean numbers: for objects in space we add the prefix je. and that's it!
For events in time we, again, add the prefix je- and the suffix -cha.
And there ya go.
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