# Posted: 11 Jan 2007 10:18 KST - Edited by: jcs
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This is always the first things you learn when you speak a language. Get on your first grade thinking caps and remember these expressions to use with your friends.
these are commonly called the where the h(*2 is XYZ thingie expressions. Or, technically, demonstrative pronouns
the main 3 are:
이 this thing close to the speaker
그 that thing close to the listener, but not to the speaker or that which is known to both speaker and listener
저 that thing away from both speaker and listener or that which is unkown to both of them
And, today is your lucky day! Since Korean has no plurals, this = these and that = those.
These are a little different from Kono, Ano, and Sono in Japanese.
We have two ways of saying distance stuff:
One:
여기 here
거기 there in that known place
저기 있는 것 the thing over there
Two:
이곳 here
그곳 there
저곳 there
We put the propositional article on the front of the noun we are referring to:
이것
그것
저것
그게 that thing (here, thing is the object of conversation sometimes, not just an actual something)
Additional examples can be found at kkoma's korean language learning site on msn
Additional explanation and examples can be found http://hompi.sogang.ac.kr/korean/kkl101/lesson01/l01_08.html#5
there as 거기 and as 저기
There is another thing you must know -- there are two ways to refer to there.
Look again at:
이곳 here
그곳 there
저곳 there
I was trying to explain a story about a special teacher's room which was central to the story. I said 저기 but she said that's not 저기 that's really 그곳 because we had mentioned it before; it was known to both the speaker and the listener. Here's what I said
커피를 마시기위해서 저기 있었는데
we were there to drink coffee
This was corrected to
거기서 커피를 마셨습니다
She also corrects me with the following
그런데 어느날 6학년 사회선생님께서 그 곳은 원어민 강사 휴게실이 아니기 때문에 우리가 들어가면 안된다고 하셨습니다. One day the 6th grade teachers said that that place was not our rest area, so we weren't allowed in there
Quoting: dreamer
그곳 is for the place which is already mentioned or the place which the hearer knows. Both the speaker and the hearer are not in or near the place.
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