How to Say "Because" in Korean

This lesson might be a bit difficult to follow, so I tried to include many example sentences so that you can put into practice what we learned right away. Also, ‘ Verb + 서’ expression is used more often (in spoken Korean) than Verb + (이)기 때문에, so please don’t worry too much if you find verb conjugation with 때문에 a bit hard. 때문에 is more used in “Noun + 때문에 (blaming Noun)” expression, which I cover at the very last part of this lesson, so if you understand that one easily, it’s already a good progress :) 파이팅!!!

+) I forgot to include that you can also put “왜냐하면” before “-때문이에요” phrase. So when you are answering to the question “왜 벌써 퇴근해요?(Why get off work already?)” you can answer “몸이 안좋기 때문이에요” like we learned but also “왜냐하면 몸이 안좋기 때문이에요” works too. But you can’t say “왜냐하면 몸이 안좋기 때문에 일찍 퇴근해요(x)” because by putting 왜냐하면, you are already making it a full sentence. 왜냐하면 is pronounced (wae-nya-ha-myun). You can also just say 왜냐면 (wae-nya-myun) without 하.

+) there’s also "verb+ -(으)니까" expression which means the same as verb+ –서, and we’ll cover that later
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