이번 엠티에 못 갈 것 같은데 어떡하지?
I don’t think I will be able to go to the school field trip this time, what do I do?
이번에는 교수님들도 참석하시는 것 같던데 웬만하면 같이 가자.
This time, it seems like the professor will attend as well, if you can be passable, let’s go together.
나도 가고 싶긴 한데 그날 아르바이트가 늦게 끝나.
I do want to go as well, but I have ended my part-time job late that night.
그럼 아르바이트가 끝나고 와. 교수님들도 수업 때문에 후발대로 늦게 오신대.
Then come after your part-time job ends. The professors are coming late as the second party (group, team) too.
그래? 후발대로 가려면 누구한테 이야기해야 해?
Really? If I wanted to go with the second party (group, team) who do I have to talk to?
과대표가 어제부터 엠티 참석 여부를 조사하고 있던데 가서 이야기해 봐.
From yesterday, the departmental student representative has been taking a survey of whether or not who will be going to the school field trip. Try and go talking to him.
V/A+ 는/은/ㄴ 것 같던데
As it is attached to an action verb’s stem or descriptive verb’s stem, it is used when the speaker is asking, persuading, or suggesting as if he is speaking about what he has already seen, heard, assumed with evidence. It is combined with ‘-는/은/ㄴ 것 같다’ and ‘-던데’.
‘-는 것 같던데’ is used at the end of an action verb’s stem in ‘있다’, ‘없다’. ‘-ㄴ것 같던데’ is used for vowels or the ending with ‘ㄹ’ of the descriptive verb’s stem. Other than that, ‘-은 것 같던데’ is used for when it ends with a consonant of the descriptive verb’s stem.
아까 김 과장님이 아주 바쁘게 어디를 나가시는 것 같던데 무슨 일이 있어요?
I saw Manager Kim who was going in a hurry rapidly earlier, what is going on?
이 귀걸이가 요즘 여성들에게서 인기가 많은 것 같던데 이걸로 선물하자.
Nowadays, it seems like this earring is very popular among ladies so let’s present with this.
유양 씨가 요즘 많이 바쁜 것 같던데 유양 씨 말고 다른 사람한테 부탁하는 게 어때?
Since Ms.Yu Yang seems so busy, how about asking someone instead of Ms. Yu Yang?
Related words
엠티 (M.T.) school field trip
Universities or companies in Korea go on a short trip as a group. It is an abbreviation for membership training.
웬만하다 to be passable
후발대 the second party (group, team)
과대표 departmental student representative
여부 check whether something is true or not
조사 survey (of)
Cre: Yonsei University. Korean Language Institute