한국에 온 지 오래되지 않았어요

[Anatoli]

Hi,

I'd like to make more sense of the phrase 한국에 온 지 오래되지 않았어요. What's the role of 지 in this sentence?

 

[Stephen Lee]

지 is
A bound noun used to indicate the duration of time from the occurrence of an incident until the present moment.

지 is since.
한국에 온 지 = since I came to Korea.
오래되지 않았어요 = It hasn't been long.

한국어기초사전

 

[Anatoli]

지 is
A bound noun used to indicate the duration of time from the occurrence of an incident until the present moment.

지 is since.
한국에 온 지 = since I came to Korea.
오래되지 않았어요 = It hasn't been long.

한국어기초사전

Thank you, Stephen! So, is 지 in 오래되지 않았어요 or in 묻지 마세요of the same origin with my example?

 

[Stephen Lee]

Thank you, Stephen! So, is 지 in 오래되지 않았어요 or in 묻지 마세요of the same origin with my example?

Nope. the first '지' is noun (Bound noun: 의존 명사). but, the second '지' is Ending of a Word(어미). Those are not of the same origin. So you should space out the words(온(verb) V 지(bound noun)) in the first case. But you should not in the second. (오래되지(verb)/ 묻지(verb))