UNIT 9 얼마예요?
276 (4) A: 사무실이* 몇 층에 있어요? B: 삼층에 있어요.
Which floor is your office on? It’s on the third floor
(Note: In Korea, the ground floor is designated 일층 (level 1). So 삼층 (level 3) is actually equivalent to the second floor in Australia.) (5) A: 한국어 공부 얼마나 했어?
How long have you been studying Korean?
B: 삼 주 했어.
(6) A: 이거 배달 좀 해 주세요.
For 3 weeks.
Could you deliver this for me, please?
B: 주소가* 어떻게 되세요?
What’s the address?
A: 현대 아파트 칠동 천육호예요.
Apartment 1006, Block 7, Hyundai Apartments.
* In examples 2, 3, 4 and 6 above, a subject particle +{이/가} has been used (+이 in 2, 3 and 4, +가 in 6). This is because in these sentences, your attention is being focussed on the subject (i.e. monthly pay, Chuseok, office, address). When the subject noun ends in a consonant you use +이, and when it ends in a vowel you use +가. In spoken Korean, the subject particle is sometimes omitted.
Note that it is important to remember for which items you use pure Korean numbers and in which cases you must use Sino-Korean numbers. Eventually you should not have to think about which number system to use. Normally, numbers are written using digits and not spelled out in Hangul. So when a number is written as, for example, 24, you need to know whether to read it as 스물넷 (pure Korean number) or as 이십사 (sino-Korean number).