Much like the first post about the verb 생각 하다/나다seng-gak hada/nada / think... etc. where we saw you can put any noun in front of 생각 하다/나다seng-gak hada/nada / think... to mean you are thinking about something. Here we are going to see how to say think about doing something.
It's actually much simpler than saying "I think that..." (thinking about thinking day 2) because the time is always about the future or present. You can't say I'm thinking about went to the shop! Also it can only be used with normal verbs, not descriptive verbs. You can't say I'm thinking about smelly!
As I said it's relatively straightforward. You take a verb, say 공부 하다gong-bu hada / study. You drop the -다-da add -는-neun and then the noun 것geot. 것geot actually means "thing". So what this means, roughly-literally, is "the studying thing" or "the thing which is studying".
Have a look at these examples:
- 중국에 가는 것 생각 해요jung-guk ga-neun geot seng-gak he-yo / Im thinking about going to China
- 점심에 김치찌게 먹는 것 생각 났어요jom-shim-ae Kimchi-jiggae mong-neun geot seng-gak nass-eo-yo / I thought about having Kimchi-jiggae for lunch
- 어머니 전화하는 것 생각 해요eo-meo-ni jeon-hwa-ha-neun geot seng-gak he-yo / I'm thinking about calling my Mum
One thing to think about is, how often do Koreans actually say this? Not very often is the answer. As you may have noticed other verbs also mean think, and there are countless ways of impying opinion through particles and endings. Either way though, these forms will be very helpful to an English native speaker!
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