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5th translation(Second version)-02

Finally, the question "Did my brother/sister do the cooking?" was translated from English into Korean.

5th translation(Second version)-01

The sentence "Did my brother/sister do the cleaning?" was changed. "Cleaning" was substituted by "cooking" and in this example, the sentence was translated from English into Chinese.

5th translation-English to Korean

The question "Did my brother/sister do the cleaning?" was translated from English into Korean.

5th translation-from English into Chinese

Here, the sentence "My brother/sister did the cleaning?" was changed from a statement into a question.

4th translation

The sentence, "My brother/sister did the cleaning." was translated from English into Chinese and Korean.

The introduction of the 4th and the 5th translation.

In the 4th and the 5th translation, the pragmatics of Google Translate will be tested. We will be looking at the word brother and sister. In English, brother can refer to older brother and younger brother and sister can refer to older and younger sister. However, in Chinese and Korean, it is a different case.

In Chinese, different words are used when referring to older brother(哥哥), younger brother(弟弟), older sister(姐姐), and younger sister(妹妹).

In Korean, when referring to younger siblings, the word "동생" is used, which generally refers to younger siblings. When referring to younger brother, a character "남"which means boy is added before the word the word "동생". When talking about younger sister, the character "여" is added which means girl. However, when calling older siblings, different words are used according to the gender of the speaker. There are 4 ways in calling older siblings in which two for guys and two for girls.
Guys calling their older brother: 형
Guys calling their older sister: 누나
Girls calling their older brother: 오빠
Girls calling their older sister: 언니