한KOREAN3001Intermediate 1

Intermediate 1 · Lesson 20

Pass a question to someone else

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Lesson information & display

Planning guide: about 30 min · Progress by understanding and practice, not by the clock.

Completion records the activities you finished. It is not a pronunciation score or a Korean proficiency certificate.

Unit contents
Reporting other people’s words
19Relay facts and explanations20Pass a question to someone else21Relay requests and instructions22Relay a suggestion and collect replies23Correct errors in a relayed message24Connect an announcement and a question
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Learn the expressions

Relay Jun’s 수업은 몇 시예요? to staff as 준이 수업은 몇 시냐고 물었어요. Jun asked; he did not answer “three.” The complete reporting sentence is a statement and can end with a period.

Original expressionReported expression
몇 시예요?몇 시냐고 물었어요.
장소가 교실이에요?장소가 교실이냐고 물었어요.
언제 시작해요?언제 시작하냐고 / 시작하느냐고 물었어요.
방이 커요?방이 크냐고 물었어요.
준도 와요?준도 오냐고 / 오느냐고 물었어요.

Nouns take -이냐고 after a final consonant and -냐고 otherwise. A current-action question can be relayed as 시작하느냐고; spoken 시작하냐고 is also used and accepted here. Do not retain -요 inside the reporting ending.