Word
선생님이 말한 대로 연습해요.seonsaengnimi malhan daero yeonseuphaeyo.
Meaning
I practice as the teacher said.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Lesson
Breakdown of seonsaengnimi malhan daero yeonseuphaeyo.
~이~i
subject particle
선생님seonsaengnim
teacher
연습하다yeonseuphada
to practice
말하다malhada
to say
Questions & Answers about seonsaengnimi malhan daero yeonseuphaeyo.
What does 말한 mean here, and what is its dictionary form?
말한 comes from the dictionary form 말하다, which means to say, to tell, or to speak.
Here, 말한 is the past adnominal form of the verb. That means it is a verb form used to modify the next word, almost like that the teacher said in English.
So:
- 선생님이 말한 = what the teacher said / the thing the teacher said
This does not mean the whole sentence is past tense. It only means the saying happened before the action of practicing.
What does 대로 mean in this sentence?
대로 means according to, as, or in the way that.
So 말한 대로 means:
- as (someone) said
- according to what (someone) said
- the way (someone) said
In this sentence, it gives the idea of following the teacher’s instructions or example.
Why is it 선생님이 and not 선생님은?