๐ต Mastering Long Sentences with Multiple Clauses | Advanced Level (TOPIK 5–6)

Do long Korean sentences confuse you, especially when reading news or academic texts?
At the advanced level, mastering sentences with multiple clauses is crucial for understanding novels, research papers, and TOPIK 5–6 reading sections. This guide will show you how to analyze connector endings, break down complex clauses, and build natural long sentences yourself.
๐ Table of Contents
- Understanding Multiple Clauses
- Common Connectors and Patterns
- Practice Dialogue
- Did You Know?
- Final Thoughts
๐ก Understanding Multiple Clauses
๋ณต๋ฌธ(่คๆ, multiple clauses)์ ๋ ๊ฐ ์ด์์ ์ ์ด ๊ฒฐํฉํด ํ๋์ ๋ฌธ์ฅ์ ์ด๋ฃจ๋ ๊ตฌ์กฐ์
๋๋ค. ํ๊ตญ์ด์์๋ ์ฐ๊ฒฐ์ด๋ฏธ(-์์/์ด์, -์ง๋ง, -๋ฉด์ ๋ฑ)์ ๊ดํ์ ·๋ช
์ฌ์ ์ ์กฐํฉํ์ฌ ๋ณต์กํ ์๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ํํํฉ๋๋ค.
Multiple-clause sentences combine two or more clauses into one. Korean uses connector endings (-์์/์ด์, -์ง๋ง, -๋ฉด์) and noun/relative clauses to convey nuanced meanings.
์์:
๋น๊ฐ ๋ง์ด ์์ ๊ธธ์ด ๋งํ์ง๋ง, ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ์ฝ์ ์๊ฐ์ ๋ง์ถฐ ๋์ฐฉํ๋ค.
(Because it rained heavily, the road was blocked, but we eventually arrived on time.)
๐ Common Connectors and Patterns
TOPIK ๊ณ ๊ธ์์ ์์ฃผ ์ฐ์ด๋ ์ฐ๊ฒฐ์ด๋ฏธ:
- -์์/์ด์: ์์ธ·์ด์ ํํ (because/so)
- -์ง๋ง: ๋์กฐ ํํ (but/although)
- -๋ฉด์: ๋์ ์งํ (while)
- -๊ณ : ์์·๋์ด ํํ (and/then)
- -๋๋ก: ๋ชฉ์ ·ํ๊ณ ํํ (so that/until)
์ด ์ฐ๊ฒฐ์ด๋ฏธ๋ค์ ์กฐํฉํ๋ฉด ๋ฌธ์ฅ์ด ๊ธธ์ด์ง๋ฉด์ ์๋ฏธ๊ฐ ๋์ฑ ์ธ๋ฐํด์ง๋๋ค. ๊ณ ๊ธ ๊ธ์ฐ๊ธฐ๋ ๋ด์ค ๋ ํด ์ฐ์ต ์ ํ์ ํจํด์ ๋๋ค.
๐ฃ Practice Dialogue
A: ๋ณด๊ณ ์๋ฅผ ๋ค ์ฝ์๋๋ฐ, ์ดํด๊ฐ ์ ์ ๋์ด์. ๋ฌธ์ฅ์ด ๋๋ฌด ๊ธธ์ด์.
Bogoseoreul da ilg-eossneunde, ihaega jal an dwaesseoyo. Munjangi neomu gil-eoyo.
I read the report, but I didn’t understand it well. The sentences are too long.
B: ์ ์์ด๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ์ฐพ์ผ๋ฉด์ ๋ฌธ์ฅ์ ๋์ด ์ฝ์ผ๋ฉด ํจ์ฌ ์ดํดํ๊ธฐ ์ฌ์์.
Jeobsogeomi-reul chaj-eumyeonseo munjangeul kkeun-eo ilg-eumyeon hwolssin ihaehagi swiweoyo.
If you look for connector endings and break sentences, it’s easier to understand.
๐งฉ Quick Check: Make a sentence using “-์ง๋ง” and “-์์/์ด์” in one sentence.
๐ Did You Know?
ํ๊ตญ์ ๋ฒ๋ฅ ๋ฌธ์๋ ์ ๋ถ ์ ์ฑ ๋ฌธ์๋ ํ ๋ฌธ์ฅ ์์ 100๋จ์ด ์ด์์ ์ฌ์ฉํ๋ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ๊ฐ ๋ง์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๋ ๋ชจ๋ ์ธ๋ถ์ฌํญ์ ํ ๋ฒ์ ๋ด์ผ๋ ค๋ ํน์ง ๋๋ฌธ์ธ๋ฐ, ๊ณ ๊ธ ํ์ต์๊ฐ ์ด๋ฅผ ์ฐ์ตํ๋ฉด ์ค์ ์ํ๊ณผ ์ํ์์ ๋ชจ๋ ํฐ ๋์์ด ๋ฉ๋๋ค.
๐ฆ Final Thoughts
๋ณต๋ฌธ์ ์ดํดํ๊ณ ํ์ฉํ ์ ์์ผ๋ฉด ํ๊ตญ์ด ๋ ํด์ ๊ธ์ฐ๊ธฐ ์์ค์ด ํ์ธต ๋์์ง๋๋ค. ํนํ ํ์ ์ ๊ธ์ฐ๊ธฐ, ๋ด์ค ์ดํด, ๋น์ฆ๋์ค ์ด๋ฉ์ผ ์์ฑ์์ ํต์ฌ ์ญ๋์ผ๋ก ์์ฉํฉ๋๋ค.
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