Word
사거리 모퉁이에 편의점이 보여?sageori motungie pyeonuijeomi boyeo?
Meaning
Do you see a convenience store on the corner of the intersection?
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
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Breakdown of sageori motungie pyeonuijeomi boyeo?
~이~i
subject particle
~에~e
location particle
사거리sageori
intersection
모퉁이motungi
corner
Questions & Answers about sageori motungie pyeonuijeomi boyeo?
What does 보여? mean, and how is it different from 보다?
- 보여? comes from the verb 보이다 (‘to be visible’), not 보다 (‘to see something’).
- In casual speech, 보이다 → 보여 (Present tense informal).
- With a rising tone (보여?) it asks “Can you see [it]?” or “Do you see [it]?”, focusing on whether something appears in your view rather than the action of seeing.
Why is the convenience store marked 편의점이 and not 편의점을?
- Because 보이다 is an intransitive (stative) verb meaning ‘to be visible.’ The thing that is visible is the subject, so it takes -이/가.
- If you used transitive 보다 (‘to look at, to see something’), you would say 편의점을 본다 with -을/를.
- In very casual speech you might even drop -이, saying 편의점 보여?, but grammatically the subject marker is -이/가.
Why is there no 의 between 사거리 and 모퉁이?
- In Korean, when one noun directly modifies another as an attributive, you often omit 의.
- 사거리 모퉁이 naturally means “corner of the intersection.”
- 사거리의 모퉁이 is grammatically possible (more formal/literary) but sounds stiff in everyday conversation.
Why does 사거리 모퉁이에 use -에? Could it be -에서?