geu sikdangeun nampyeonboda anaega deo jaju yeyakhae.

The wife makes reservations at that restaurant more often than the husband.

Breakdown of geu sikdangeun nampyeonboda anaega deo jaju yeyakhae.

• ~가: subject particle
• ~은: topic particle
• 식당: restaurant
• 자주: often

Questions & Answers about geu sikdangeun nampyeonboda anaega deo jaju yeyakhae.

What does 남편보다 mean here?

보다 means than in comparisons.

So 남편보다 아내가 더 자주 예약해 means:

• 남편보다 = than the husband
• 아내가 = the wife
• 더 자주 = more often
• 예약해 = makes reservations / books

So the comparison is between 남편 and 아내: the wife does the reserving more often than the husband.

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Why is 아내가 marked with 가 instead of 는?

Here, 가 is natural because it marks who is the one doing the action in the comparison.

The sentence is focusing on who, out of the two, reserves more often. In that kind of contrast, 가 often sounds very natural:

• 남편보다 아내가 더 자주 예약해.
  = It’s the wife who reserves more often than the husband.

If you said 아내는, it would sound more like you are setting up the wife as a topic, rather than identifying her as the compared subject. That can be possible in some contexts, but 아내가 is the most straightforward choice here.

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Why is it 그 식당은 and not 그 식당을?