TOPIK I · LEVEL 2
-군요/-는군요
-군요 expresses that you have just realized or noticed something: 'Oh, I see — …'.
문장 끝·말투Endings & speech styleHan: 오다 is a verb, so in the present it needs 는: 오는군요.
Examples
벌써 열두 시군요.Oh, it's already twelve o'clock.
그래서 어제 학교에 안 왔군요.I see, so that's why you didn't come to school yesterday.
한국어를 정말 잘하시는군요!Oh, you speak Korean really well!
Don’t mix up
-군요/-는군요vs-네요Both show surprise; -네요 is the everyday spoken choice, -군요 sounds a little more reflective or bookish.How to build it
A+군요
V+는군요
N+(이)군요
예쁘다 → 예쁘군요, 잘하다 → 잘하는군요, 학생 → 학생이군요
- Verbs in the present take 는군요; adjectives and past forms take 군요: 갔군요.
- It reacts to new information; it's not used for facts you already knew.
Classic mistake
Wrong: 비가 오군요.
Right: 비가 오는군요.
오다 is a verb, so in the present it needs 는: 오는군요.
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All TOPIK grammar- -(으)ㄹ 것Ends a written instruction or rule with a noun-like command: 'do X; X is to be done'. Impersonal and firm; used in notices, exam instructions, memos and rule lists.
- -(으)ㄹ게요-(으)ㄹ게요 is how you tell someone 'I'll do it': a promise or decision you make with the listener in mind.
- -(으)십시오-(으)십시오 is the formal, polite way to tell or ask someone to do something: 'please do …'.
- -(으)ㄹ래요?Use it to ask what the listener wants to do ("Do you want to…?") or to say what you yourself want to do ("I'll… / I want to…") in a friendly, polite way.
- -(으)ㄴ가요?/-나요?-(으)ㄴ가요?/-나요? make a soft, gentle polite question.
- -자-자 is the casual way to say "let's (do something)" to close friends or people younger than you.
- -지Casual (반말) sentence ending that, depending on intonation, seeks agreement ('…, right?'), states something as obvious, asks oneself a question, or makes a soft suggestion ('why don't you…'). Its polite form is -지요/죠.
- -지 말다-지 말다 is the negative used in commands, suggestions and wishes: 'don't', 'let's not', 'not A but B', 'told me not to'. Plain 안/-지 않다 cannot be used there.
- -지 마세요Add -지 마세요 to a verb to politely ask someone not to do something.