Korean grammar · Level 4 · 4급
-아/어야 할 것이다
We should … (in an argument)
-아/어야 하다 is “must”; adding 것이다 turns it into the writer's considered view: “we should”, “it will be necessary to”. It is the standard way to end an opinion paragraph. In speech the same idea is -아/어야 할 거예요.
Examples
우리 모두 에너지를 아껴야 할 것이다.
We should all save energy.
이 문제는 지역 사회가 함께 풀어야 할 것이다.
Local communities will need to solve this problem together.
따라서 마을마다 아이들이 놀 곳을 만들어야 할 것이다.
Therefore every village should have somewhere for children to play.
Practise it in context · Level 4, Unit 8
Changing society
A dialogue with audio, practice that checks itself, Hoya’s mistakes, a reading and a writing task.
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