It’s good that we’ve talked in Korean 🇰🇷

Sentence info.

Breakdown of the sentence:
1. 우리가 (uri-ga): "우리" means "we" and "가" is the subject particle attached to it.
2. 말한 (malhan): This is the adjective form (relative clause) of "말하다" ("to talk"). It modifies the noun that follows by describing something that was talked about.
3. 것이 (geosi): "것" means "thing" or "matter," and "이" is its subject particle. When combined with the previous clause ("우리가 말한"), it turns the action of talking into a noun phrase: "what we talked about."
4. 좋습니다 (johseumnida): This is the formal polite form meaning "is good."

The overall structure is:
[Clause (우리가 말한) + nominalizer (것) + subject marker (이)] followed by the predicate 좋습니다. This pattern is useful for expressing that a particular action or event (here, talking) is good.

Tips to remember:
• Use a relative clause (verb stem + -한 for past action) to modify a noun like "것" when you want to refer to an action as a thing.
• "것이 좋다" is a common pattern to say, "It is good that [action happened]."

Alternate ways to express "It's good that we've talked":
• 우리가 대화한 것이 좋습니다. (uri-ga dae-hwa-han geosi johseumnida) – Uses 대화하다 ("to converse") for a slightly different nuance.
• 우리 얘기한 게 좋아요. (u-ri yae-gi-han ge jo-a-yo) – A more casual version using 얘기 for "talk" and the contracted 게 for 것이.
• 이야기해서 좋았습니다. (i-ya-gi-hae-seo jo-ah-sseum-ni-da) – "It was good talking," using the connective 해서 and the past form 좋았습니다.

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