Isn’t It So? -지 않아요?

You both watch a programme, but your friend seems less enthusiastic. A negative question invites agreement. If you want to insist how good something is, 얼마나 with an emphatic -다고요 adds force to your evaluation.

Invite the Listener’s Agreement

Verb or adjective stem + -지 않아요? can ask whether the listener shares a view: 재미있지 않아요? With a noun use -(이)지 않아요? Context and intonation decide whether it seeks agreement or is a literal negative question.

Insist on the Degree

얼마나 plus a statement-shaped -다고요 can emphasise how much or how strongly something is true. Present action verbs use -ㄴ다고요/-는다고요; adjectives use -다고요. The speaker is stressing their own claim here, rather than necessarily reporting someone else’s words.

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