Difference between word pairs: 증가하다/감소하다 and 늘다/줄다
The book I am studying points out that both 증가하다/감소하다 and 늘다/줄다 mean "increase/decrease". How do the contexts differ? Can I replace them with each other?
현대 사회에서는 결혼율이 감소하는/주는 것 같은데 우리 나라에서는 오히려 최근 결혼율이 늘었다/증가했다. 게다가 이혼율이 작년보다 10%정도 감수했다/줄었다. 그렇기 덕분에 앞으로 10년 동안 인구가 년마다 1000명으로 증가할 것이다/늘 것이다.
(In modern society marriage rates seem to be decreasing, but in our country the marriage rates have actually increased lately. Moreover, divorce rates have fallen by 10% compared to last year. Thanks to this, the population will increase by 1000 people every year for the next ten years.)
This was a very complicated sentence to construct with my level of Korean, so I hope it's understandable!
감사합니다!
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Difference between word pairs: 증가하다/감소하다 and 늘다/줄다
The book I am studying points out that both 증가하다/감소하다 and 늘다/줄다 mean "increase/decrease". How do the contexts differ? Can I replace them with each other?현대 사회에서는 결혼인구가 감소하는
(In modern society marriage rates seem to be decreasing, but in our country the marriage rates have actually increased lately. Moreover, divorce rates have fallen by 10% compared to last year. Thanks to this, the population will increase by 1000 people every year for the next ten years.)
This was a very complicated sentence to construct with my level of Korean, so I hope it's understandable!
감사합니다!
I would even amend the original text since "marriage rate" doesn't make sense without any pool previously specified.
It should be "number of people who married"
On the other hand, "divorce rate" is fine since it assumes married people as the pool.
증가하다/감소하다 are the proper terms for reports because 늘다/줄다 is more on the side of "rule of thumb" where no precise numbers can be presented.
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Yea, I'm aware that 증가/감소 comes from 增加/减少, but since my book was teaching them as equivalent to 늘다/줄다 (mentioning specifically that they are used for describing diagrams) I just wanted some clarification :)
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When there are some words with same meaning, the Chinese one is for official things like a report, an article, etc, the Western one is for putting sentences with a fashionable style, and the Korean one is for explaining them. LOL
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