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Korean grammar · Level 2 · 2급

V-(으)ㄹ 줄 알다 / 모르다

Knowing how to

In native review Taught in Unit 2: What are your hobbies?

-(으) 줄 알아요 means you know how to do something — a skill you have learned. -(으) 줄 몰라요 means you never learned it. It attaches like -(으) 수: 칠 줄, 읽을 줄, 만들 줄. So 수영할 줄 알아요, 그런데 오늘은 수영할 수 없어요 means “I know how to swim, but today I can't.”

WhenUseExample
a skill you have-(으)ㄹ 줄 알아요피아노를 칠 줄 알아요
a skill you don't have-(으)ㄹ 줄 몰라요수영할 줄 몰라요

Examples

  • 가야금을 연주할 줄 알아요?

    Do you know how to play the gayageum?

  • 저는 수영할 줄 몰라요.

    I don't know how to swim.

  • 김치찌개를 만들 줄 알아요.

    I know how to make kimchi stew.

Practise it in context · Level 2, Unit 2

What are your hobbies?

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