๐ ์ค์ํ๊ธฐ ์ข์ ํ๊ตญ์ด ํํ ์๋ฆฌ์ฆ / Korean Expressions Easy to Misuse Series
๐ ์ค์ํ๊ธฐ ์ข์ ํ๊ตญ์ด ํํ ์๋ฆฌ์ฆ
Korean Expressions Easy to Misuse Series
ํ๊ตญ์ด๋ ์์ ๋จ์ด์ ์ต์์ ๋ฐ๋ผ ๋ป์ด ๋ฏธ๋ฌํ๊ฒ ๋ฌ๋ผ์ง๋ ์ธ์ด์์.
Korean is a language where small words and intonation can completely change the meaning.
์ค๋์ ์ธ๊ตญ์ธ ํ์ต์๊ฐ ํนํ ์์ฃผ ํท๊ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ํํ 5๊ฐ๋ฅผ, ๊ฐ์กฑ·์น๊ตฌ ๋ํ ์ ์์์ ํจ๊ป ํ์ด๋ณผ๊ฒ์.
Today, we’ll go through 5 common Korean expressions with examples from family and friend conversations.
1️⃣ ๋ด ๋ง ์ข ๋ค์ด๋ด (Listen to me for a second)
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์๋ชป๋ ์ฌ์ฉ ❌: “๋ด ๋ง ๋ค์ด!” (๋ช ๋ น์กฐ, ์ธ์ฐ๋ ๋๋)
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์ฌ๋ฐ๋ฅธ ์ฌ์ฉ ✅: “๋ด ๋ง ์ข ๋ค์ด๋ด.” (๋ถ๋๋ฝ๊ณ ์น๊ทผ)
๐ฌ ์น๊ตฌ ๋ํ
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์น๊ตฌ A: “์ผ, ๋ด ๋ง ๋ค์ด! ๋ ์ง์ง ํ๋ฌ์ด.”
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Friend A: “Hey, listen to me! I’m really mad.”
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์น๊ตฌ B: “์ ํ๋์ด? ๋ด ๋ง ์ข ๋ค์ด๋ด, ์ฌ์ค์…”
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Friend B: “Why are you mad? Listen to me for a second, actually…”
๐ฌ ๊ฐ์กฑ ๋ํ
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๋ธ: “์๋น , ๋ด ๋ง ์ข ๋ค์ด๋ด. ์ด๋ฒ ์ํ ์ค๋น๊ฐ ๋๋ฌด ํ๋ค์ด.”
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Daughter: “Dad, listen to me for a second. My test prep is too hard.”
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์๋น : “์์์ด, ์ฐจ๊ทผ์ฐจ๊ทผ ์๊ธฐํด๋ด.”
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Dad: “Okay, tell me slowly.”
๐ Tip: “์ข”์ ๋ถ์๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ํํด ์ฃผ๋ ๋จ์ด์์. Without it, you sound too strong.
2️⃣ ๊ด์ฐฎ์ (It’s okay / I’m fine)
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๊ฑฐ์ : “๊ด์ฐฎ์์” = No thanks
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์์ฌ: “๊ด์ฐฎ์, ๊ฑฑ์ ๋ง” = Don’t worry
๐ฌ ์น๊ตฌ ๋ํ
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์น๊ตฌ A: “๋ด ์ฐ์ฐ ๊ฐ์ด ์ธ๋?”
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Friend A: “Do you want to share my umbrella?”
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์น๊ตฌ B: “๊ด์ฐฎ์, ๊ธ๋ฐฉ ๊ฐ ๊ฑฐ์ผ.”
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Friend B: “It’s okay, I’ll be fine.”
๐ฌ ๊ฐ์กฑ ๋ํ
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์๋ง: “๋์ด์ก์ด? ์ด๋ ๋ค์น ๋ฐ ์์ด?”
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Mom: “Did you fall? Are you hurt?”
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์๋ค: “์, ๊ด์ฐฎ์. ์ด์ง ๊ธํ์ด.”
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Son: “Yeah, I’m okay. Just a scratch.”
๐ Tip: ๊ฐ์ ๋จ์ด๋ผ๋ tone๊ณผ ์ํฉ์ ๋ฐ๋ผ No thanks ๋๋ I’m okay๊ฐ ๋ฉ๋๋ค.
3️⃣ ๋ง์๋ค vs ๋ง์์ด ๋ณด์ฌ (Delicious vs Looks delicious)
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๋ง์๋ค: ์ค์ ๋ก ๋จน์ด๋ดค์ ๋ → “It’s delicious”
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๋ง์์ด ๋ณด์ฌ: ๊ฒ๋ณด๊ธฐ๋ง ๋ณด๊ณ → “It looks delicious”
๐ฌ ์น๊ตฌ ๋ํ
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์น๊ตฌ A: “์ด ํ์คํ ์ง์ง ๋ง์๋ค!” (๋จน์ด๋ณธ ๋ค)
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Friend A: “This pasta is really delicious!”
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์น๊ตฌ B: “์์ง ์ ๋จน์์ด. ๊ทผ๋ฐ ์ง์ง ๋ง์์ด ๋ณด์ฌ.”
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Friend B: “I haven’t tried it yet, but it looks delicious.”
๐ฌ ๊ฐ์กฑ ๋ํ
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์๋ง: “์ค๋ ์ ๋ ๊ฐ๋น์ฐ ์ด๋?”
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Mom: “How’s the braised short ribs for dinner?”
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์๋น : “์ฐ์, ๋์๋ง ๋งก์๋ ๋ง์์ด ๋ณด์ฌ.”
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Dad: “Wow, it looks delicious just from the smell.”
๐ Tip: “๋ณด์ฌ”๋ฅผ ๋นผ๋จน์ผ๋ฉด ์ํฉ์ด ์ด์ํด์ ธ์.
4️⃣ ํ๋ค๋ค (I’m tired / It’s tough)
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์ฒด๋ ฅ์ : “์ค๋ ๋๋ฌด ํ๋ค์ด” → I’m so tired today
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์ํฉ์ : “์ด ํ๋ก์ ํธ ํ๋ค๋ค” → This project is tough
๐ฌ ์น๊ตฌ ๋ํ
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์น๊ตฌ A: “์ผ, ์ค๋ ๋ฑ์ฐ ์ด๋ ์ด?”
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Friend A: “How was the hike today?”
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์น๊ตฌ B: “์ํด, ๋๋ฌด ํ๋ค์์ด. ๋ค๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ํ๋ ธ์ด.”
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Friend B: “Oh man, it was so tiring. My legs gave out.”
๐ฌ ๊ฐ์กฑ ๋ํ
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์๋ค: “์๋ง, ํ๊ต ๊ณผ์ ๊ฐ ๋๋ฌด ํ๋ค์ด.”
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Son: “Mom, my school assignment is so tough.”
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์๋ง: “๊ทธ๋๋ ๋๊น์ง ํด๋ณด์. ๋ค ํ๊ณ ๋๋ฉด ๋ฟ๋ฏํ ๊ฑฐ์ผ.”
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Mom: “Let’s finish it. You’ll feel proud afterwards.”
๐ Tip: Context์ ๋ฐ๋ผ tired์ผ ์๋ ์๊ณ difficult์ผ ์๋ ์์.
5️⃣ ์ ๋ง? (Really?)
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๋๋: “์ ๋ง?” → Really?
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ํ์ธ: “์ ๋ง์ด์์?” → Is that true?
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๊ณต๊ฐ: “์ ๋ง ๊ทธ๋ ์ง.” → That’s so true.
๐ฌ ์น๊ตฌ ๋ํ
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์น๊ตฌ A: “๋ ๋ก๋ 2๋ฑ ๋น์ฒจ๋์ด!”
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Friend A: “I won 2nd place in the lottery!”
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์น๊ตฌ B: “์ ๋ง? ๋๋ฐ!”
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Friend B: “Really? Amazing!”
๐ฌ ๊ฐ์กฑ ๋ํ
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์๋ง: “์ค๋ ๋ค ์ข์ํ๋ ๋ฐ์ฐฌ ํ์ด.”
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Mom: “I made your favorite side dish today.”
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์๋ค: “์ ๋ง? ์ ์ ๋๋ค!”
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Son: “Really? Yay, I’m excited!”
๐ Tip: ์ต์์ ์ฌ๋ฆฌ๋ฉด ๋๋, ๋ด๋ฆฌ๋ฉด ๊ณต๊ฐ.
๐ฏ ๋ฌธํ ํฌ์ธํธ (Cultural Point)
ํ๊ตญ์ด๋ ์์ ๋จ์ด, ์ต์, ๋ฌธ๋งฅ์ด ๋ชจ๋ ์ค์ํฉ๋๋ค.
Korean is very sensitive to words, tone, and context.
์์ด๋ ๋น์ทํด์. “Listen to me”๋ ๋ฑ๋ฑํ์ง๋ง, “Listen to me for a second”์ ๋ถ๋๋ฝ์ฃ .
Similarly in English, “Listen to me” sounds harsh, but “Listen to me for a second” is softer.
๐ ์์ฝ (Summary)
์ค๋ ๋ฐฐ์ด ํํ 5๊ฐ:
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๋ด ๋ง ์ข ๋ค์ด๋ด → Listen to me for a second
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๊ด์ฐฎ์ → I’m fine / Don’t worry
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๋ง์๋ค vs ๋ง์์ด ๋ณด์ฌ → Delicious vs Looks delicious
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ํ๋ค๋ค → Tired / Tough
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์ ๋ง? → Really? / Is that true? / That’s so true
๐ ์์ ์ฐจ์ด๊ฐ ํฐ ์ฐจ์ด๋ฅผ ๋ง๋ญ๋๋ค.
๐ Small differences make a big difference.
๐ ๋ง๋ฌด๋ฆฌ (Closing)
์ค๋์ ๊ฐ์กฑ๊ณผ ์น๊ตฌ ๋ํ ์์์ ์์ฃผ ์ฐ์ด์ง๋ง ์ค์ํ๊ธฐ ์ฌ์ด ํ๊ตญ์ด ํํ 5๊ฐ๋ฅผ ์ดํด๋ดค์ต๋๋ค.
Today, we learned 5 tricky Korean expressions through family and friend conversations.
๋ค์ ์๋ฆฌ์ฆ์์๋ ๋ ๋ค๋ฅธ ํํ์ผ๋ก ์ฐพ์์ฌ๊ฒ์. Stay tuned!
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