Explain this to me please :)
Eotteoke (어떻게)
why does it spell like that?
Shouldn't it be 엍턱게 (?)
Since "ㅌ" is "t" sound.. ??
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Now, quiz!
1. 좋다(be good): ( ) + -고(and) > ( 좋 고 ) [ ] : 'It's good and...'
2. 좋다(be good): ( ) + -지?(question) > ( ) [ ] : 'It's good, isn't it?'
3. 좋다(be good): ( ) + -아!(exclamation)> ( ) [ ] : 'It's good!'
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어떻게[어떠케]
orthography: 어떻게
pronunciation: [어떠케]
'why does it spell like that?'
-어떠하다(adjective. 기본형: the original form) > 어떻다(준말: the shortened form)
-to make a new word from an adjective to an adverb
어떻다+-게=> 어떻+게>어떻게
('어떻' is the stem of the word '어떻다'. That's why we delete the functional unit '다'
ㅎ+ㄱ-> ㅋ (an aspirated sound)
'Shouldn't it be 엍턱게 (?)': Pay attention to the order of the application of some rules.
1) 어떻+게: 어떧(not ㅌ)+ 게-> [어떧께] (X)
2) 어떻+게: 어떠+(ㅎ+게)-> 어떠+[케]->[어떠케] (O)
* A very well-founded and reasonable question. Thank you.
This is the habits or the rules in the Korean phonology.
Don't shake our linguistic ground, please. ㅋㅋㅋ
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Ignore Romanization. And Romanization follows Hangul, not the other way around. So if anything I'd be questioning the English spelling, not the Korean spelling. Obviously the Korean is right and spelled the way it is. The English is just an approximation. And it's because ㄸ is romanized as "tt". And "k" because ㅎ+ㄱ=ㅋ sound, which is "k". Yes, Romanization can be interpreted many ways. Pointless and unnecessary after a week. When you get better at Korean, you'll get a feel for the way things are and aren't spelled. And you'll realize that would be a bizzare sort of combination of letters.
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