Korean Lessons ᚛ Level 4 - Intermediate Korean #1 (Lessons 91 to 120) ᚛ Lesson 98 - To know how to / To not know how to in Korean [-(으)ㄹ 줄]

To know how to / To not know how to in Korean [-(으)ㄹ 줄]

In this course: 줄 알다 / 줄 알아 / 줄 알아요 / 줄 모르다 / 줄 몰라 / 줄 몰라요

In the previous lesson, we saw how to express the fact of knowing something in Korean. Let us now see how to express the fact of knowing how to do something, of having the ability to do it.

To know how to do something in Korean

In Korean, to indicate that one knows how to do something, it is possible to use the following form:
[Modifier -(으)ㄹ] 줄 알다

Reminder: the modifier -(으)ㄹ

한국어를 할 줄 알아요.
→ I know how to speak Korean. (Lit: I know how to do Korean.)

수영할 줄 알아.
→ I know how to swim.

김치를 만들 줄 알아요.
→ I know how to make kimchi.

그 아이는 벌써 글을 읽을 줄 알아요.
→ That child already knows how to read (texts).

일본어를 할 줄 아세요?
→ Do you know how to speak Japanese?

To not know how to do something in Korean

Differences between 줄 알다 and 수 있다

Summary table of structure

Exercises

Particles are omnipresent in Korean. They indicate the role of words in a sentence, nuance meaning, and make it possible to understand who does what, where, how, and why.

Particles are also often the aspect that causes the most difficulty for Korean learners. In grammar books, they are usually presented in the middle of long sentences, with complex vocabulary, without being clearly highlighted.

With Korean Particles, we made the opposite choice:
taking the time to explain each particle, one by one, using very simple sentences, accessible even to beginners.

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