Examples
(1) A: 어디 가세요?
B: 바닷가에 가요. 날씨가 덥잖아요.
(2) A: 극장 앞에 사람이 참 많네요.
B: 영화가 재미있잖아요. 저 영화 아직 못 봤어요?
(3) A: 린다씨 친구들이 왜 이렇게 많이 왔어요?
B: 오늘이 린다씨 생일이잖아요.
(4)A: 영수씨가 이번 시험에 A+를 받았어요.
B: 이 주 동안 열심히 공부했잖아요. |
Notes
1. This construction, originated from
a negative question (∼지 않아요?),
is used when the speaker assumes that the listener will agree with him/her.
It is used when the speaker wants to reconfirm facts already known, or
when something is so obvious and thus the speaker assumes that the listener
ought to know it. It is best translated in English as 'you know'.
The original construction '~지
않아요?' is used when the speaker is
not as sure as with ~잖아요
about whether the listener would agree, s o the speaker is checking upon
it.
2. Although it is a negative question
in form, it is rhetorically a positive statement, because the force of
negation is cancelled by being put in question: Isn�t it the case that
. . .? .
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