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영화든 공연이든 — Film or stage, either is fine — choosing and judging what to see
영화든 공연이든 — Film or stage, either is fine — choosing and judging what to see. Lesson 10 of Level 4A in the haru Korean regular course.
What you will be able to do
- Say that any of the choices is fine, or that the result is the same whatever happens: 영화든 공연이든 다 좋아요. · 비가 오든지 눈이 오든지 공연은 해요.
- Play down a compliment modestly and say what is really so: 잘하기는요. 아직 멀었어요. · 전문가는요. 그냥 좋아하는 거예요.
- Single out the very best, or say 'as for that, of course': 「바다 너머」야말로 이번 봄 최고의 작품이에요. · 저야 좋지요.
- Praise what really impressed you, a little formally: 연출이 여간 독특한 게 아니었어요. · 표를 구하기가 여간 어렵지 않았어요.
Grammar in this lesson
- N(이)든(지) N(이)든(지) · A/V-든(지) A/V-든(지) — either … or … — it doesn't matter which, or whatever happens
- A/V-기는(요) · N은/는요 — Me? Hardly! — playing down a compliment, gently saying 'not really'
- N(이)야 · N(이)야말로 — N, of course · N, truly — singling something out
- 여간 A-(으)ㄴ 것이 아니다 · 여간 A/V-지 않다 — not just a little … — really, truly very