-는/(으)ㄴ/(으)ㄹ 것
neun/(eu)n/(eu)l geot
Grammar · 1 sense
Change sentence to a noun
Examples
책을 읽는 것을 좋아해요.
I like the act of reading books.
우리는 다음 주에 갈 것이에요.
We will go next week.
When you'd hear it
This pattern is common in both speech and writing, especially when a clause is the subject or object of another verb. In conversation, 것 often contracts to 거, as in 갈 거예요, while the full form appears more often in careful speech and writing.
What learners get wrong
Learners often confuse 것 with -기. 것 commonly packages a specific fact, event, or content, while -기 more readily presents an activity or action as a general concept; the tense-like form before 것 also changes with the clause’s time reference.
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