They would have wanted to eat here in Korean 🇰🇷

Sentence info.

Word-by-word breakdown:

• 여기서 (yeogiseo)
 – 여기 means “here” and the particle 서 indicates the place where an action takes place (“at here”).

• 먹고 (meokgo)
 – Derived from 먹다 (“to eat”) with the connective ending 고, linking it to the following expression of desire.

• 싶었을 (sipeosseul)
 – From 싶다 (“to want”), turned into its past form 싶었 (wanted) and then attached with the attributive ending 을 to modify the next element.

• 거예요 (geoeyo)
 – A contraction of “것이에요” (literally “it is a thing”), used to express probability or supposition—here, implying “would have” or “probably.”

Combined, the full sentence “여기서 먹고 싶었을 거예요.” (Yeogiseo meokgo sipeosseul geoeyo) translates to “They would have wanted to eat here.”

Tips for remembering:
• Recognize that adverbs like “여기서” (at here) come first to set the location.
• Notice how verbs are connected: the main action “eat” becomes 먹고 to link with the desire construction 싶다.
• The past form 싶었 combined with the modifier 을 transforms it into an adjective modifying 거예요, which expresses an assumption.

Alternate ways to express “They would have wanted to eat here”:
• 여기서 먹기를 원했을 거예요.
 – (“먹기를 원하다” uses the noun form 먹기 of “eat” with 원하다 meaning “to want.”)
• 여기서 식사하고 싶었을 거예요.
 – (“식사하다” means “to dine” or “to have a meal,” offering a slightly different nuance.)

Each alternate keeps the structure of location + action + desired state + supposition, similar to the original sentence.

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