Yesterday's dinner
Someone WILL ask what you ate yesterday, and "uh... food?" is not an answer that ends the conversation.
Tell them what I ateThe words — Yesterday's dinner
Yesterday happened. Unfortunately, so did dinner. Let's relive it.
Meaningyesterday
어제 누줌이 국을 먹었어요. 많이 먹었어요.
Yesterday Nujoom ate soup. He ate a lot.
Meaningate / drank
사마는 국을 먹었어요. 그리고 국을 마셨어요.
Sama ate the soup. And he also drank the soup.
Meaningit was delicious
힐랄이 국을 먹었어요. 맛있었어요! 또 먹었어요.
Hilal ate the soup. It was delicious! He ate it again.
Meaningrestaurant
지자는 식당에서 국을 먹었어요. 누줌도 식당에 왔어요.
Zeeza ate soup at the restaurant. Nujoom came to the restaurant too.
Meaningsoup
누줌은 어제 국을 많이 먹었어요. 오늘도 국을 먹었어요.
Yesterday Nujoom ate a lot of soup. Today he ate soup too.
Meaningcooked
사마가 집에서 국을 요리했어요. 누줌이 또 먹었어요.
Sama cooked soup at home. Nujoom ate it again.
Meaningat home
힐랄은 집에서 요리했어요. 누줌이 식당에서 국을 또 먹었어요.
Hilal cooked at home. Nujoom ate soup at the restaurant again.
Watch out — Yesterday's dinner
One syllable. Your eyes just read it as an English word. Your eyes are wrong.
국국 (guk) = soup. Remember it from 식당에서 국을 먹었어요 — 'I ate soup at the restaurant.' Romanization is a reading ramp, not the real pronunciation or meaning — trust the Hangul.
The scene — Yesterday's dinner
Nujoom declares a kitchen emergency. There was no emergency. There was soup.
- 어제 집에서 요리했어요!I cooked at home yesterday!
- 국이에요?Is that soup?
- 네, 국이에요! 맛있었어요!Yes, it's soup! It was delicious!
- 국은... 맛있었어요. 국을 먹었어요!The soup... was delicious. I ate the soup!
The idea — Yesterday's dinner
어제 means 'yesterday' and goes right before the verb — like in 어제 먹었어요, 'I ate yesterday'.
Next time someone asks what you ate last night, you've got a full sentence ready — no translating in your head first.
Questions about Yesterday's dinner
How do you say 'yesterday' in Korean?
'Yesterday' is 어제 (eoje), and it goes right before the verb, like in 어제 먹었어요 — 'I ate yesterday.'
What does 국 mean in Korean?
국 (guk) means 'soup', as in 식당에서 국을 먹었어요 — 'I ate soup at the restaurant.'
How do you say 'it was delicious' in Korean?
'It was delicious' is 맛있었어요 (masisseosseoyo), used after eating something you liked.
How do you say 'I cooked at home' in Korean?
You can say 집에서 요리했어요 — 'I cooked at home', combining 집에서 ('at home') and 요리했어요 ('cooked').
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