jega eoje bon yeonghwaneun jeongmal jaemiisseosseoyo.

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Breakdown of jega eoje bon yeonghwaneun jeongmal jaemiisseosseoyo.

• ~는: topic particle
• ~가: subject particle
• 재미있다: interesting

Questions & Answers about jega eoje bon yeonghwaneun jeongmal jaemiisseosseoyo.

Why is 제가 used instead of 저는?

• 제가 = 저 (humble “I”) + subject marker -가, marking the doer of “saw” inside the relative clause.
• 저는 uses the topic marker -는, which would make 저 (“I”) the main topic of the whole sentence—unnatural here, since the real topic is 영화 (“movie”).
• Also, 제가 is the polite equivalent of the informal 내가; you wouldn’t use 내가 in this polite speech level.

What does 어제 본 영화 mean, and how does this structure work?

• Literally: 어제 (yesterday) + 본 (past attributive form of “to see”) + 영화 (movie).
• This is a relative clause: the verb in attributive form (본) comes before the noun it modifies (영화), so 어제 본 영화 = “the movie that (I) saw yesterday.”

How does the verb 보다 become 본 when modifying 영화?

• To turn a verb into an adjective modifying a noun, Korean uses the attributive ending -ㄴ (for past) or -는 (for present).
• Stem of 보다 is 보.
  • Past attributive: 보
  • ㄴ = 본
    • Present attributive: 보
    • 는 = 보는
• So 본 영화 = “the movie (that I) saw.”