I don’t think you were prepared in Korean 🇰🇷

Sentence info.

그쪽이 (geu-jjogi)
 • 그쪽 means “that side” or “you” (when referring politely to someone) and 이 is the subject marker.
  • In short, “그쪽이” means “you (as the subject)” or “that person.”

준비되지 (junbi-doeji)
 • 준비 means “preparation.”
 • 되다 means “to become” or “to be” in a state, so 준비되다 means “to be prepared.”
 • 준비되지 is the verb stem when combined with the negation (지 않다).
  • Note: The negative construction 지 않다 is attached to the verb’s stem to express “not.”
   – A tip: Remember that for saying “not [verb]” you often remove 다 from the verb stem and add 지 않다.
   – Here, 지 않다 is then conjugated into the past tense as 않았어요 to mean “was not prepared.”

않았다고 (anhass-da-go)
 • 않다 means “not” and attaching 았다 indicates past tense, so 않았어요 means “was not.”
 • 고 is a quoting connective used to indicate that what comes before is a quotation, idea, or thought.
  • In this sentence, it indicates that the speaker is reporting the thought “was not prepared.”

생각해요 (saeng-gak-hae-yo)
 • 생각하다 means “to think.”
 • 해요 is the polite present tense ending.
  • Thus, 생각해요 means “I think.”

Altogether, “그쪽이 준비되지 않았다고 생각해요.” literally translates as “I think that you were not prepared.”

Alternate ways to say “I don't think you were prepared” in Korean:
 • 난 네가 준비 안 됐다고 생각해요.
  – 난 (nan) = “I” (casual contraction of 나는)
  – 네가 (ne-ga) = “you” (casual subject form of 너)
  – 준비 안 됐다고 uses 안 됐다 as another way of saying “was not prepared.”
 • 저는 당신이 준비가 안 됐다고 생각해요.
  – 저는 (jeo-neun) = “I” (formal)
  – 당신이 (dangsin-i) = “you”
  – 준비가 안 됐다고 uses 가 as the subject marker for 준비, which is another acceptable construction.

A tip to remember:
 • For expressing negative past states, combine the verb with negative endings like 지 않다 (which becomes 않았어요 in the past) and then use 고 to quote the thought before following it with 생각해요.

Romanized full original sentence:
 “Geu-jjogi junbi-doeji anhass-da-go saeng-gak-hae-yo.”

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