Preference · a reason to speak · LESSON 4 / 4
What do you want to do?
Ask a listener about a wish and give a short reply.
Quick phrase
뭐 하고 싶어요?What do you want to do?
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뭐 하고 싶어요? asks “What do you want to do?” in an appropriate polite conversation. 뭐 먹고 싶어요? asks what the listener wants to eat. Read a fictional conversation: one person asks about an activity, and the other wants to study Korean at home.
What do you want to do?
I want to study Korean at home.
What do you want to drink?
I want to drink water.
Examples in this unit are text-based. No pronunciation recording or automatic speaking score is used.
Useful basics on this page
I want to go to Korea.
One glass of water, please.
Questions can use the same polite -고 싶어요 ending, with question intonation. The listener’s wish is being asked about, not asserted as a fact. In a short reply, 물 마시고 싶어요 can omit 을; sentence-building practice keeps 물을 explicit. A wish is also different from a café request: 물 한 잔 주세요 actually asks someone to give you a glass of water.
Try it yourself
Which asks what the listener wants to drink?
In the example, where does the learner want to study?
Which is a request for someone to give you water, rather than only stating a wish?
Build “I want to study Korean at home.”
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Is 물 마시고 싶어요 necessarily wrong because 을 is omitted?
RETRIEVE BEFORE YOU REVEAL
Say it in your own time.
Ask what your listener wants to do. Give a fictional reply about studying at home.
뭐 하고 싶어요? 집에서 한국어를 공부하고 싶어요.
This is your own speaking check; pronunciation is not recorded or graded.
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