Why did you tell it to him last night? in Korean 🇰🇷

Sentence info.

Sentence breakdown:
• 어젯밤에 (eojesbam-e): "어젯밤" means "last night" and the particle “에” marks the time when the action happened.
• 왜 (wae): This is the adverb “why.”
• 당신에게 (dangsin-ege): “당신” means “you” (in a formal or sometimes confrontational context) and “에게” is the particle showing the indirect object (to whom something is told).
• 말했습니까? (malhaessseumnikka?): This is the past tense, formal polite form of “말하다” (to speak/to tell).

Tips to remember:
• Identify time expressions first and attach “에” to denote when an action is done.
• Use “에게” to indicate the target of an action (for example, who is being spoken or told).
• For formal questions, verbs often end with “-습니까?” or “-ㅂ니까?” in the past tense.
• Remember that adverbs like “왜” (why) typically come right after the time expression, before the subject or object.

Alternate expressions for “Why did you tell it to him last night?”:
• 어젯밤에 그에게 왜 말했습니까? (eojesbam-e geu-ege wae malhaessseumnikka?)
• 어젯밤에 왜 그에게 말했어요? (eojesbam-e wae geu-ege malhaesseoyo?)
• 어젯밤에 그한테 왜 말씀하셨어요? (eojesbam-e geu-hante wae malsseumhasyeosseoyo?)

These alternatives change “당신에게” to “그에게”/“그한테” when referring to “him,” and use slightly different speech levels.

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