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 often use the noun form insteed using just the verb normally.

Thank you very much for your reply

Question

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 often use the noun form insteed using just the verb normally.

Thank you very much for your reply

Answer

크리스야  질문이 완전 훌륭한데? 
여전히 열심히 공부하구있군!

Answer

It's kind of hard to explain but let me put it this way.
Not only in Korean, but also in any other languages, I guess.. there are certain ways to make expressions sound more vividly or emphasized.

밥을 사다. (buy a meal)
밥을 사주다 (buy and give a meal => this doesn't make sense in English, but it's literal translation.)
밥을 사주는 것이다. (It is that you buy and give a meal. => I don't know this is correct or makes sense in English)

All deliver the same meaning. But when we say or hear it, we feel the difference, although it's very slight.

If we make a WHY question with the third sentence, it will be "왜 밥을 사주는 것이야?" or "왜 밥을 사주는 것인가요?" in a polite way.

And 것 is a noun and 것이다 is a verb form.

for example, 한국어를 배우는 것은 한국 문화를 배우는 것이다. (것이다 is a verb form)

As you said, we also say like "왜 갑자기 나에게 밥을 사?". No problem with the sentence.

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