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좋아해요: say what you like

Use 을/를 좋아해요 to express a personal preference.

Quick phrase

저는 음악을 좋아해요.

I like music.

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좋아하다 means to like. Its everyday polite form is 좋아해요. Give the person as a topic if needed, then the thing they like as an object. 음악 means music; 영화 means a movie or movies, depending on context.

저는 음악을 좋아해요.

I like music.

유나는 영화를 좋아해요.

Yuna likes movies.

저는 커피를 안 좋아해요.

I do not like coffee.

Examples in this unit are text-based. No pronunciation recording or automatic speaking score is used.

Useful basics on this page

을/를: what do you eat or read? →책을 읽어요.

I read a book.

안: say you do not do something →커피를 안 마셔요.

I do not drink coffee.

Notice the pattern

Use 을 after a final consonant (음악을) and 를 after a vowel (영화를, 커피를). 좋아하다 is a single verb, so its short negative is 안 좋아해요. Compare 공부 안 해요, where 공부 is a separate activity noun. A preference does not tell us what someone is doing right now.

Try it yourself

Complete 음악__ 좋아해요. 악 ends in final ㄱ.

Complete 영화__ 좋아해요. 화 ends in a vowel.

Choose the ordinary short negative of 좋아해요.

Build “I like music.”

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From Unit 4: choose “I do not study”.

RETRIEVE BEFORE YOU REVEAL

Say it in your own time.

Say one fictional preference and one thing you do not like.

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