21 two-turn dialogues about 가족 행사, illustrating 16 words from this category at 4급. Every exchange is a 국립국어원 example with its English translation, and every word links back to its full entry.
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형님, 아버지랑 어머니 요즘 어떠세요?
Hyung, how are your father and mother these days?
잘 계셔. 동생도 잘 지내지?
They're doing well. How about you, are you doing okay?
앞으로 형님으로 모실게요.
From now on, I'll treat you as my older brother.
나도 앞으로 너를 동생처럼 대하마.
And I'll treat you like a younger sibling from now on.
매제, 요즘 동생하고 어떻게 지내나?
Brother-in-law, how are you and my sister getting along these days?
잘 지냅니다. 형님도 잘 지내시죠?
We're doing well. How about you, are you doing well too?
젊은 사람이 어떻게 도자기를 굽게 되었나?
How did a young person like you get into making pottery?
저희 집은 삼대 째 도자기를 만들고 있습니다, 어르신. 저는 장남으로 가업을 잇는 것이고요.
Our family has been making pottery for three generations, sir. As the eldest son, I'm carrying on the family business.
어제 신제품 홍보 행사에 갔었니?
Did you go to the new product launch event yesterday?
응, 참석자들에게는 기념품도 주던걸.
Yeah, they even gave souvenirs to everyone there.
부모님 제가 해외여행 시켜 드릴게요.
Mom and Dad, I'll treat you to a trip abroad.
살다 보니 너에게 효도를 다 받아 보는구나.
I never thought I'd see the day I receive such filial piety from you.
이번 명절 때 외갓집에 가기로 했니?
Are we going to Mom's family's house for the holiday this time?
아니요. 외할아버지께서 저희 집에 오시기로 했어요.
No, Grandpa decided to come to our place instead.
어머니 아버지, 주말에 가족 여행 다녀와요.
Mom and Dad, let's go on a family trip this weekend.
너 갑자기 안 하던 효자 노릇을 하려고 그러니?
Are you suddenly trying to act like a dutiful child?
어디 가세요?
Where are you going?
네, 오늘 시아버지 생신이라서 시댁에 갑니다.
Oh, today is my father-in-law's birthday, so I'm going to my husband's family home.
그 집 애들은 다들 결혼했대요?
Are all the kids in that family married?
큰아들은 아직 미혼인데, 작은아들은 벌써 결혼해서 아이가 하나 있어요.
The eldest son is still single, but the younger son is already married and has a child.
자녀는 몇 명이나 두셨습니까?
How many children do you have?
외아들만 하나 어렵게 얻었습니다.
I barely managed to have just one, an only son.
저는 언니 둘에 남동생이 하나 있어요.
I have two older sisters and one younger brother.
부모님이 늦게 외아들을 두셨군요.
So your parents had an only son late in life.
저 애가 큰딸이죠? 올해 몇 살이나 됐어요?
That child is the oldest daughter, right? How old is she this year?
이제 스무 살이에요.
She's twenty now.
이번 설에 큰집에 인사 좀 드리고 옵시다.
Let's go pay our respects at the head family's house this Lunar New Year.
그래요. 모처럼 오랜만에 친척분들을 만날 수 있겠어요.
Yes, let's. It's been a while since we've seen our relatives.
이번 명절에 어디 가니?
Where are you going this holiday?
큰집에 차례 드리러 가요.
I'm going to the head family's house to hold the ancestral rite.
난 돈에 눈이 멀어 도둑질을 했다 큰집에 갔다 왔네.
I was blinded by money and stole, and I ended up in jail.
너무 자책하지 말게. 지금은 그때와 전혀 다른 새 사람이 되지 않았나.
Don't blame yourself too much. Haven't you become a completely new person since then?
시아버지를 참 정성으로 모시네요.
You really take devoted care of your father-in-law.
아니에요. 저는 어려서 아버지는 일찍 여의어서 시아버지가 친아버지 같아요.
Not at all. I lost my father when I was young, so my father-in-law feels like my own father.
사실 저는 다섯 살에 지금의 부모님에게 입양됐어요.
Actually, I was adopted by my current parents when I was five.
그럼 친어머니나 친아버지의 소식은 모르십니까?
Then do you not know anything about your biological mother or father?
너희 오빠한테 또 전화 온 거야?
Did your brother get another phone call?
응, 겨우 두 살 위의 친오빠가 아버지보다도 더 잔소리가 심하다니까.
Yeah, my older brother, who's only two years older than me, nags more than my dad.
서울에서는 혼자 자취하고 계시는 겁니까?
Are you living alone in Seoul?
아니에요, 친언니와 둘이 살고 있어요.
No, I live with my elder sister.
내 아들이야.
This is my son.
친아들인데도 하나도 안 닮았네요.
Even though he's your biological son, he doesn't look like you at all.
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These 21 exchanges are the dictionary's own examples for the 16 4급 words in this category — 형님, 장남, 참석자, 효도, 외갓집 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.