Korean grammar · Level 4 · 4급
N에 비해
Compared with
N에 비해(서) means “compared with N”. The thing you compare against always takes 에, never 을/를. It is a little more formal than N보다, which you learned in Level 2, and it is common in news and articles.
Examples
작년에 비해 물가가 많이 올랐어요.
Prices have gone up a lot compared with last year.
이 가게는 다른 가게에 비해 싸요.
This shop is cheap compared with the others.
온라인 쇼핑은 가게에 가는 것에 비해 시간이 덜 걸려요.
Shopping online takes less time than going to a shop.
Practise it in context · Level 4, Unit 2
Spending and saving
A dialogue with audio, practice that checks itself, Hoya’s mistakes, a reading and a writing task.
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