WHAT THE F#!$ IS THIS ????????????????????

[warped patrol]

보통 몇 시에 잠을 자요? is the sentence I'm trying to understand not translate and 잠을 자요? is bugging me and I don't understand it.
잠을 자요? (do you sleep ?)
잠들다 (sleep)
자다 (sleep)
잠을 (sleep)
잠 (sleep)?
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I have tried Japanese translations of it cuz I know Japanese and I have tried English translation all it says is to sleep or sleep and I don't get how
this "sleep ul sleep ?" makes any sense and I am here asking for everyone's help to share their immense braincells and knowledge and explain the Korean mindset behind this sentence. Thank you!

[warped pewter]

So basically

Korean has a few verbs that kinda run in pairs with nouns derivative of them

자다 - sleep (verb)
잠 - sleep (noun)
잠을 자요 if you literally translate it means “sleep a sleep” but it just means to sleep

Another pair that does this is 춤
춤 - dance (noun)
추다 - dance (verb)
춤을 춰요 - dance

[warped patrol]

so its like 踊をおどる (dance "the dance")

[warped pewter]

Bingo

[warped patrol]

眠りにつく (fall into sleep)

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[warped pewter]

I mean 잠을 자요 just means going to sleep so

Yeah

I don’t know Japanese but this is just how I see it

[warped patrol]

踊をおどる this is more like (i will dance the dance (definite/ noun))

so it refers to a specific dance or a routine both party knows

[warped pewter]

Yeah nah in Korean these verb pairs can just refer to super general

Not a specific dance

Just dancing

[warped patrol]

yeah i can understand that

[warped pewter]

It’s just commonly used in the pair like that

[warped patrol]

the definite dance im referring to as an action which is not a verb

cuz that is the closest to me