It’s weird that we talk so frequently in Korean 🇰🇷

Sentence info.

우리가너무자주말하는것은이상합니다 can be segmented as follows:

1. 우리가 (uriga) – “we” with the subject particle “가”.
2. 너무 (neomu) – an adverb meaning “too” or “so”.
3. 자주 (jaju) – an adverb meaning “frequently” or “often”.
4. 말하는 (malhaneun) – the present participle form of 말하다 (“to talk”), which turns the verb into a modifier meaning “talking”.
5. 것은 (geoseun) – literally “the thing that…”; it nominalizes the preceding clause (“[that] we talk too frequently”).
6. 이상합니다 (isanghamnida) – the formal form of “is weird/strange.”

Essentially, the sentence means “The fact that we talk so frequently is weird.” The clause “우리가 너무 자주 말하는” acts as a descriptive modifier for “것은,” turning the whole idea into the subject of the sentence, with “이상합니다” as the predicate.

Tips to Remember:
• Note how the relative clause is created by attaching -는 to the verb stem (말하다 → 말하는) to describe “것”.
• Recognize that adverbs like 너무 and 자주 directly modify the verb without needing extra markers.
• Practice by identifying and separating words within a sentence, even when spaces are omitted.

Alternate Expressions:
• 우리가 너무 자주 말하는 게 이상해요. (uriga neomu jaju malhaneun ge isanghaeyo) – Using 게 instead of 것은 and 이상해요 for a less formal tone.
• 우리가 너무 자주 대화하는 건 이상해요. (uriga neomu jaju daehwahaneun geon isanghaeyo) – Replacing 말하는 (“talking”) with 대화하는 (“conversing”).
• 그렇게 자주 말하는 것이 좀 이상해요. (geureoke jaju malhaneun geosi jom isanghaeyo) – Emphasizing “so frequently” by starting with 그렇게.

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