Menggunakan ~는 것 이다 dan ~ㄴ/는다는 것

Using ~는 것 with 이다

~ㄴ/는다는 것

Vocabulary

Nouns:
미소 = smile
배달 = delivery
반지 = ring
입술 = lips
미술 = art
목걸이 = necklace
수영복 = bathing suit
귀고리 = earrings
간식 = snacks
경영 = management/administration
목표 = specific goal
숲 = forest
주머니 = pocket
삼촌 = uncle on fathers side
칠판 = blackboard/chalkboard
딸기 = strawberry
상추 = lettuce
선택 = choice
공사 = construction
교시 = class (first class, second class)
종교 = religion
시청 = city hall

Verbs:
어울리다= get along with
알리다 = inform/tell/report/notify
아끼다 = to cherish something
남기다 = to leave something
명도하다 = shave
빌려주다 = lend
샤워하다 = shower
덮다 = cover up/close a book/keep a secret
없어지다 = disappear/lose
따라가다 = follow
지나가다 = go pass/go by
키우다 = raise/train/develop
참다 = hold back/endure

Passive Verbs:
쓰이다 = state of being written on
떨어지다 = to drop/fail a test*

Adjectives:
부럽다/부러워하다 = envious
긍정적이다 = positive
부정적이다 = negative

Adverbs and Other Words:
식 = in a certain way/manner (그런 식)
동갑 = same age
아까 = earlier
꽉 = tight (hold tight)

Words With *

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Introduction

I keep saying this, but you have learned a lot about using the ~는 것 principle. Don’t think that you’re out of the woods yet – because there is still a lot to know.
In this lesson, you will learn how to use ~는 것 with 이다, and also a little bit about how to understand ~는 것 when it is presented as ~ㄴ/는다는 것.
Let’s get started.

Using ~는 것 with 이다

You’ve learned a lot about how to add ~는 것 to any verb (and technically adjectives as well by using ~ㄴ/은 것), but you have yet to learn about how to add it to 이다.
The first thing you are probably asking to yourself is: When would I ever want to add ~는 것 to 이다? Well, lets remember what ~는 것 does:

If you want to just say a noun, you can just say a noun. For example:
Man = 남자

If you want to describe that noun, you can use adjectives:
똑똑한 남자 = smart man

Or verbs:
먹고 있는 남자 = the man who is eating

But… now think about this for a second… what if you want to describe a noun with a noun? Look at the difference (or similarities) between the three following sentences:

똑똑한 남자 = the smart man (or – man who is smart)
먹고 있는 남자 = the man who is eating
_____________= the man who is a teacher

How would you do that? For the moment, think of 이다 as a verb. If I wanted to say “the man who is a teacher, it would make sense if you could write:

선생님이는 남자…

…It would make sense if you could do that, but that is incorrect. There are two ways to use ~는 것 with 이다:

1)If the noun you are attaching 이다 to ends in a consonant, you must add ~이라는 것 to it

For example:
선생님이라는 남자 = the man who is a teacher

2) If the noun you are attaching 이다 to ends in a vowel, you must add ~라는 것 to it.
의사라는 여자 = the woman who is a doctor

In practice, however, this is often used when talking about somebody’s name or what something is called (I am looking for somebody named Steven). The grammar within that usually deals with quoting, so we will cover this a little bit more when you learn about quoting in Lesson 52.

Nonetheless, sometimes it is necessary to say things like “the (noun) who is a (noun)”:

선생님이라는 남자들은 매일 술을 마셔요 = men who are teachers drink alcohol every day
그 사람이 나쁜 사람이라는 것을 알고 있어요 = I know that that person is a bad person

Which could also be said like this:
그 사람이 나쁜 것을 알고 있어요 = I know that that person is bad

Using ~는 것 with 이다 is also done sometimes when conjugating to the future tense when conjugating as ‘~ㄹ 것이다.’ We will talk about this later in the next section of this lesson. Before we get into that, I want to show you something else.