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왜 갑자기 밥을 사 주는 거야? 저는 방금 유튜브 비디오를 경상도 사투리에 관해 보고 문장 안에 제가 모르는 문법 개념를 봤어요. 제가 본 문장이 이것이에요: "왜 갑자기 밥을 사 주는 거야?" 제가 물어보고 싶은 질문을 물어보려고 제 한국어 실력이 아직은 좋지 않아요, 그래서 영어로 물어볼 거예요: why Korean people say sentences or questions into a noun form and not into verb form? What I mean is, "왜 갑자기 밥을 사 주는 거야?" is a question expressed into a noun form by the grammar principle "는것". But what I don't understand is: why Korean people don't say "왜 갑자기 나에게 밥을 사?" (or similar)? And, in addition to that sentence, I don't understand why Korean people use only the noun form insteed using just the verb normally. Thank you very much for your reply

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Actually, a question in form of '왜 갑자기 나에게 밥을 사?' IS used. '거', which is commonly used in colloquial language meaning '것', has several different meanings. One of them is what you know - turning verb form into noun. Some of other meanings: guess/assertion/command/.... In this case, '거' means weak assertion/exclamation/emphasis. So "왜 갑자기 밥을 사 주는 거야?" is same as "왜 갑자기 밥을 사 줘(=주어)?"

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