Sleeping is more important than eating in Korean 🇰🇷

Sentence info.

잠 (jam) – “sleep”; the noun indicating the state of sleeping.
이 (i) – subject marker attached to “잠” to highlight sleep as the subject.
먹는 (meok-neun) – the present modifier form of 먹다 (“to eat”), functioning as an adjective meaning “eating.”
것보다 (geot-bo-da) – “보다” means “than” or “compared to” and “것” means “thing”; together they form “than the thing of…” which in context translates as “than eating.”
더 (deo) – “more.”
중요해요 (jung-yo-hae-yo) – the polite present form of 중요하다 (“to be important”), meaning “is important.”

Tips to remember:
• Notice how 먹다 is turned into 먹는 to modify the noun “것,” creating a phrase that means “the act of eating.”
• The structure “A보다 B” is used to compare A and B, here with “것” (eating) as A and sleep (잠) as B, modified by 더 to show “more” importance.

Alternate ways to express “Sleeping is more important than eating”:
• 잠은 먹는 것보다 더 중요해요. (jam-eun meok-neun geot-bo-da deo jung-yo-hae-yo)
• 잠자는 것이 먹는 것보다 더 중요해요. (jam-ja-neun geot-i meok-neun geot-bo-da deo jung-yo-hae-yo)

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