12 two-turn dialogues about 채소, illustrating 7 words from this category at 3급. Every exchange is a 국립국어원 example with its English translation, and every word links back to its full entry.
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너 왜 그렇게 땀을 흘리니?
Why are you sweating so much?
된장찌개에 고추가 많이 들어갔는지 너무 매워서 땀이 나요.
Maybe there's a lot of red pepper in the doenjang stew—it's so spicy that I'm sweating.
아들을 원해요, 딸을 원해요?
Do you want a son or a daughter?
첫째 아이가 딸이니까 이번에는 고추 달린 아이였으면 좋겠어요.
Since our first child is a daughter, I hope this time it's a boy.
이 요리에는 어떤 채소들이 들어가나요?
What vegetables go into this dish?
먼저 양파와 이 붉은 당근이 필요합니다.
First, you need onions and this red carrot.
유민아, 너 숙제 다 했어?
Yumin, did you finish all your homework?
당근. 미리 다 했지.
Of course. I did it all in advance.
비도 오는데 김치전에 막걸리 어때?
It's raining, so how about some kimchi pancakes and makgeolli?
당근 좋아. 내가 막걸리는 사 갈게.
Of course, sounds great. I'll bring the makgeolli.
이 풀은 뭐니?
What is this plant?
호박인데 아직 열매가 열리지 않았어.
It's a pumpkin, but it hasn't produced fruit yet.
호박 껍질이 너무 단단해서 못 자르겠어요.
The pumpkin skin is so hard that I can't cut it.
살짝 쪄서 잘라 보세요.
Steam it a little and then try cutting it.
오늘 산에 가서 나물을 캐 왔단다.
I went to the mountain today and picked some wild greens.
신선할 때 빨리 요리해서 먹어요.
Cook them quickly while they're fresh.
엄마, 나물 반찬 말고 소시지 없어요?
Mom, is there any sausage instead of the vegetable side dish?
지수야, 채소를 먹어야 건강해진단다.
Jisu, you need to eat vegetables to stay healthy.
버섯을 물에 씻으면 맛과 영양이 떨어져요.
If you wash mushrooms in water, they lose their taste and nutrients.
정말요? 처음 알게 된 사실이에요.
Really? That's the first I've heard of that.
냄비에 찌고 있는 고구마 꺼내서 먹자.
Let's take out the sweet potatoes steaming in the pot and eat them.
젓가락으로 찔러 보니 아직 딱딱해. 조금 더 익히자.
I poked one with chopsticks and it's still hard. Let's cook them a bit longer.
아줌마, 이 양배추 한 통에 얼마예요?
Excuse me, how much is this cabbage per head?
한 통에 이천 원이에요.
It's 2,000 won per head.
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These 12 exchanges are the dictionary's own examples for the 7 3급 words in this category — 고추, 당근, 호박, 나물, 버섯 and the rest. Each is two turns, so what you see is not only how the word is used but what it is usually said in answer to.
They are written examples rather than transcribed speech, so they are tidier than a real conversation and shorter. What they are not is translated English: they were written in Korean, by Korean lexicographers, to show how the word behaves — which is why the speech levels and the sentence endings in them are worth copying.
Dialogues, translations and word meanings from the 국립국어원 한국어기초사전, used under CC BY-SA 2.0 KR.