Breakdown of yeori nageodeun jibeseo swieo.
Questions & Answers about yeori nageodeun jibeseo swieo.
Literally, 열 means heat/fever, and 나다 means to come out / to occur / to arise. So 열이 나다 is literally something like a fever comes up or heat occurs.
In natural English, it means to have a fever.
Also, 열이 uses the subject particle 이 because 열 is what is occurring.
Because 나다 is an intransitive verb here. That means it describes something happening on its own, rather than something acting on an object.
So:
- 열이 나다 = a fever occurs / one gets a fever
- not 열을 나다
The particle 이/가 marks what appears or happens.
Here, -거든 means if or if it happens that.
So 열이 나거든 집에서 쉬어 means:
- If you have a fever, rest at home.
This ending often gives a condition for the next clause, especially in spoken Korean. It can feel a little like:
- if