๐ Vocabulary
texting
| Korean | Meaning | Romanisation |
|---|---|---|
| ใ ใ ใ | Haha (laughing) | kkk |
| ใ ใ | Hehe (soft laugh) | hh |
| ใ ใ | Crying face | ใ ใ |
| ใฑใฑ | Go go! | gg |
| ใ ใ | Yes/OK | oo |
| ใดใด | No no | nn |
| ใ ใ | Sorry (abbreviation) | js |
| ใณ | Thanks (abbreviation) | gs |
| ใ ใ | OK | ok |
| ใทใท | Shaking/trembling | dd |
| ์ฝ์น | Read but no reply | ikssip |
| ๋ต์ฅ | Reply (message) | dapjang |
| ๋ฐฅํ๋ฆญ์ค | Eating + Netflix | bappeullikseu |
| TMI | Too Much Information | TMI |
| ์ธ์์งค | Best photo ever | insaengjjal |
humor
| Korean | Meaning | Romanisation |
|---|---|---|
| ์์ฌ ๊ฐ๊ทธ | Dad joke | ajae gaegeu |
| ์๊ธฐ๋ค | Funny | utgida |
| ์ฅ๋ | Joke/prank | jangnan |
| ๋๋ด | Joke (verbal) | nongdam |
| ์ง๋ด | Serious talk | jindam |
| ๋ถ์ด๋นต | Spitting image | bungeoppang |
| ์ ์ด ์ฌ์ฌํด | I want a snack | ibi simsimhae |
| ๋ฉ๋ถ | Mental breakdown | menbung |
| ํํ | Reality check | hyeonta |
| ์ ํ ๋์ค | Self-deprecation | selpeu diseu |
| ๋ฐ์ด ๋๋ค | Well-connected | bari neolda |
| ๊ท๊ฐ ์๋ค | Easily persuaded | gwiga yalda |
| ๋์ด ๋๋ค | High standards | nuni nopda |
| ๊ฐ์ด ํฌ๋ค | Bold/audacious | gani keuda |
| ์์ด ํฌ๋ค | Generous | soni keuda |
formal
| Korean | Meaning | Romanisation |
|---|---|---|
| ์๋ฒ์ง/์๋ฒ๋ | Father | abeoji/abeonim |
| ์ด๋จธ๋/์ด๋จธ๋ | Mother | eomeoni/eomeonim |
| ํ ์๋ฒ์ง | Grandfather | harabeoji |
| ํ ๋จธ๋ | Grandmother | halmeoni |
| ์ฒ์ ๋ต๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค | Nice to meet you (super formal) | cheoeum boepgesseumnida |
| ์ ๋ถํ๋๋ฆฝ๋๋ค | Please take care of me | jal butakdeurimnida |
| ์์ฌํ์ จ์ด์? | Have you eaten? (honorific) | siksahasyeosseoyo? |
| ์๊ณ ํ์ จ์ต๋๋ค | You've worked hard | sugohasyeosseumnida |
| ๊ฐ์ฌ๋๋ฆฝ๋๋ค | Thank you (super formal) | gamsadeurimnida |
| ๋ง์ ๋ง์ด ๋ค์์ด์ | I've heard a lot about you | malsseum mani deureoesseoyo |
| ์กฐ์ฌํ ๊ฐ์ธ์ | Get home safe | josimhi gaseyo |
| ๋ง์๊ฒ ๋์ธ์ | Enjoy your meal (honorific) | masitge deuseyo |
| ์ถํํฉ๋๋ค | Congratulations | chukahamnida |
| ์์ผ ์ถํํฉ๋๋ค | Happy birthday | saengil chukahamnida |
| ์ํด ๋ณต ๋ง์ด ๋ฐ์ผ์ธ์ | Happy New Year | saehae bok mani badeuseyo |
workplace
| Korean | Meaning | Romanisation |
|---|---|---|
| ๋ณด๊ณ ์ | Report | bogoseo |
| ๋ฐํ | Presentation | balpyo |
| ์ผ์ | Schedule | iljeong |
| ๋ด๋น์ | Person in charge | damdangja |
| ๋๋ฃ | Colleague | dongryo |
| ํ์ | Work dinner | hoesik |
| ์๋ผ๋ฐธ | Work-life balance | worabal |
| ๊ณ ์ํ์ด์ | You worked hard (casual) | gosaenghaesseoyo |
| ํ์ดํ | Fighting! (encouragement) | hwaiting |
deep-emotions
| Korean | Meaning | Romanisation |
|---|---|---|
| ์ฌ๋ํ๋ค | To love | saranghada |
| ๋ณด๊ณ ์ถ์ด์ | I miss you | bogo sipeoyo |
| ๊ณ ๋ง์์ | Thank you (warm) | gomawoyo |
| ๊ด์ฐฎ์์ง ๊ฑฐ์ผ | It'll be OK | gwaenchanajil geoya |
| ๋ด ํธ์ด์ผ | I'm on your side | nae pyeoniya |
| ํ๋ด | Be strong / cheer up | himnae |
| ๊ฑฑ์ ๋ง | Don't worry | geokjeong ma |
| ์์ง ๋ง | Don't forget | itji ma |
| ์์คํ๋ค | To be precious | sojunghada |
| ์ ์ด ๋ค๋ค | To become attached (์ ) | jeongi deulda |
food-advanced
| Korean | Meaning | Romanisation |
|---|---|---|
| ์ผ๊ฒน์ด | Pork belly | samgyeopsal |
| ๋ถ๊ณ ๊ธฐ | Marinated beef | bulgogi |
| ๋น๋น๋ฐฅ | Mixed rice bowl | bibimbap |
| ๋ก๋ณถ์ด | Spicy rice cakes | tteokbokki |
| ๊น๋ฐฅ | Seaweed rice roll | gimbap |
| ๋ผ๋ฉด | Ramen/instant noodles | ramyeon |
| ๋ง๊ฑธ๋ฆฌ | Rice wine | makgeolli |
k-culture
| Korean | Meaning | Romanisation |
|---|---|---|
| ๋ ธ๋๋ฐฉ | Karaoke room | noraebang |
| ์ฐ์ง๋ฐฉ | Korean spa | jjimjilbang |
| ํ๋ณต | Traditional clothing | hanbok |
| ์ค๋ | Lunar New Year | seollal |
| ์ถ์ | Korean Thanksgiving | chuseok |
| ํ๋ฅ | Korean Wave (Hallyu) | hallyu |
| ์น๋งฅ | Chicken + beer combo | chimaek |
| ์๋งฅ | Soju + beer combo | somaek |
advanced-connectors
| Korean | Meaning | Romanisation |
|---|---|---|
| ๋ฐ๋ผ์ | Therefore | ttaraseo |
| ๋ฐ๋ฉด์ | On the other hand | banmyeone |
| ๊ฒ๋ค๊ฐ | Moreover | gedaga |
| ์คํ๋ ค | Rather/on the contrary | ohiryeo |
| ์ด์ฐจํผ | Anyway/in any case | eochapi |
| ๋์ ์ | Instead | daesine |
society
| Korean | Meaning | Romanisation |
|---|---|---|
| ๊ต์ก | Education | gyoyuk |
| ํ๊ฒฝ | Environment | hwangyeong |
| ๊ฒฝ์ | Economy | gyeongje |
| ์ญ์ฌ | History | yeoksa |
| ์ ํต | Tradition | jeontong |
| ์์ | Art | yesul |
| ๊ณผํ | Science | gwahak |
| ๊ธฐ์ | Technology | gisul |
personality
| Korean | Meaning | Romanisation |
|---|---|---|
| ์์งํ๋ค | Honest | soljikada |
| ์ฑ์คํ๋ค | Sincere | seongsilhada |
| ์น์ ํ๋ค | Kind | chinjeolhada |
| ๊ฒธ์ํ๋ค | Humble | gyeomsonhada |
| ๋๋จํ๋ค | Amazing | daedanhada |
nuanced-feelings
| Korean | Meaning | Romanisation |
|---|---|---|
| ๊ทธ๋ฆฝ๋ค | Miss (longing) | gripda |
| ์์ฝ๋ค | Regrettable | aswipda |
| ๋คํ์ด๋ค | Fortunate | dahaengida |
| ์ ๋๋ค | Excited | sinnada |
| ์ง์ฆ๋๋ค | Annoying | jjajeungnada |
advanced-fillers
| Korean | Meaning | Romanisation |
|---|---|---|
| ์ด์จ๋ | Anyway | eojjaetdeun |
| ์๋ค์ํผ | As you know | aldasipi |
| ์๊ฐํด ๋ณด๋ | Come to think of it | saenggakhae boni |
| ์ ์๊ฐ์๋ | In my opinion | je saenggageneun |
| ๊ทธ๋์ ๋ง์ธ๋ฐ | So about that | geuraeseo marinde |
๐ Grammar
-๋๋ฐ
Background/but/context (Swiss army knife)
๋ฐฅ ๋จน๋๋ฐ ๋์ค์ ์ ํํ ๊ฒโ I'm eating so I'll call later
๋ง์๋๋ฐ ์ข ๋น์ธ์โ It's delicious but a bit pricey
-๋ค๊ณ /-๋๊ณ /-์๊ณ /-๋ผ๊ณ
Quoting (statement/question/suggestion/command)
๋ง์๋ค๊ณ ํ์ด์โ He said it's delicious
๊ฐ์ด ๊ฐ์๊ณ ํ์ด์โ He suggested going together
-๋ฉด์
While doing
๋ฐฅ ๋จน์ผ๋ฉด์ TV ๋ด์โ I watch TV while eating
๊ฑธ์ผ๋ฉด์ ์๊ธฐํ์โ Let's talk while walking
Honorific verb forms
For elders/parents
๋์ธ์โ Please eat (to elders)
์ด๋ ๊ณ์ธ์?โ Where are you? (to elders)
๐ฌ Key Phrases
์ฒ์ ๋ต๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค
It's my first time meeting you
cheoeum boepgesseumnida
Meeting someone's parents๋ง์ ๋ง์ด ๋ค์์ด์
I've heard a lot about you
malsseum mani deureoesseoyo
Formal introductions์๊ณ ํ์
จ์ต๋๋ค
You've worked hard
sugohasyeosseumnida
End of work day์นํจ์ด ๋๋ฅผ ๋ถ๋ฌ
The chicken is calling me
chikini nareul bulleo
Humorous craving expression์ด์ฐจํผ ๊ฐ ๊ฑฐ์์
You're going anyway
eochapi gal geojanah
Casual persuasion