Korean Phrasebook: 50 Most Useful Expressions For Beginners

A list of common phrases and expressions in Korean with translations and examples for beginners.


28 words in this list

์•„๋‹ˆ์š” (aniyo) โ†’ No

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ์•„๋‹ˆ์š”, ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ ์•„๋‹™๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (No, that's not it.)

์‹ซ์–ด์š” (silh-eoyo) โ†’ I don't like it

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ์ด ์Œ์‹์€ ์‹ซ์–ด์š”. (I don't like this food.)

์ข‹์•„์š” (joayo) โ†’ I like it

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ์ด ๋…ธ๋ž˜ ์ข‹์•„์š”. (I like this song.)

๋ฏธ์•ˆํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค (mianhamnida) โ†’ I'm sorry

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ๋ฏธ์•ˆํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์ž˜๋ชปํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (I'm sorry. I was wrong.)

์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์„ธ์š” (annyeonghaseyo) โ†’ Hello

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์„ธ์š”. ์ €๋Š” ๋ฏธ๋‚˜์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (Hello. My name is Mina.)

๋ญ๋ผ๊ณ ์š”? (mwolagoyo?) โ†’ What did you say?

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ์ฃ„์†กํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ญ๋ผ๊ณ ์š”? (I'm sorry. What did you say?)

๋„ค (ne) โ†’ Yes

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ๋„ค, ๊ทธ๋ ‡์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (Yes, that's right.)

๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค (gamsahamnida) โ†’ Thank you

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ข‹์€ ํ•˜๋ฃจ ๋˜์„ธ์š”. (Thank you. Have a good day.)

์–ด๋””์— ์žˆ์–ด์š”? (eodie isseoyo?) โ†’ Where is it?

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ์ œ ํ•ธ๋“œํฐ์ด ์–ด๋””์— ์žˆ์–ด์š”? (Where is my phone?)

๋ฐฐ๊ณ ํŒŒ์š” (baegopayo) โ†’ I'm hungry

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ์ ์‹ฌ์„ ๋จน์ง€ ์•Š์•„์„œ ๋ฐฐ๊ณ ํŒŒ์š”. (I'm hungry because I didn't eat lunch.)

์ž˜ ๋ชจ๋ฅด๊ฒ ์–ด์š” (jal moreugesseoyo) โ†’ I don't know

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด์„œ ์ž˜ ๋ชจ๋ฅด๊ฒ ์–ด์š”. (I don't know much about that.)

์ž˜ ์ง€๋‚ด์š”? (jal jinaeyo?) โ†’ How are you?

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์„ธ์š”. ์ž˜ ์ง€๋‚ด์š”? (Hello. How are you?)

์ด๋ฆ„์ด ๋ญ์˜ˆ์š”? (ireumi mwoyeyo?) โ†’ What's your name?

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ์ด๋ฆ„์ด ๋ญ์˜ˆ์š”? (What's your name?)

์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ํ•ด์•ผ ๋ผ์š”? (eotteohge haeya dwaeyo?) โ†’ What should I do?

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ํ•ด์•ผ ๋ผ์š”? ๋„์™€์ฃผ์„ธ์š”. (What should I do? Please help me.)

์ž˜ํ–ˆ์–ด์š” (jalhaess-eoyo) โ†’ Well done

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ์ž˜ํ–ˆ์–ด์š”! ์ด์ œ ๋‹ค์Œ ๋‹จ๊ณ„๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋ด…์‹œ๋‹ค. (Well done! Let's move on to the next level.)

ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด๋ฅผ ๋ฐฐ์šฐ๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์š” (hangugeo-leul baeugo iss-eoyo) โ†’ I'm learning Korean

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ์ €๋Š” ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด๋ฅผ ๋ฐฐ์šฐ๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์š”. (I'm learning Korean.)

ํ™”์ดํŒ… (hwaiting) โ†’ Fighting!

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ํ™”์ดํŒ…! ์‹œํ—˜ ์ž˜ ๋ณผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฑฐ์˜ˆ์š”. (Fighting! You can do well on the test.)

์–ด๋””์„œ ์™”์–ด์š”? (eodiseo wasseoyo?) โ†’ Where are you from?

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ์–ด๋””์„œ ์™”์–ด์š”? ์ €๋Š” ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์—์„œ ์™”์–ด์š”. (Where are you from? I'm from the United States.)

๊ณ ๋งˆ์›Œ์š” (gomawoyo) โ†’ Thank you

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ๊ณ ๋งˆ์›Œ์š”. ๋„์™€์ค˜์„œ ์ •๋ง ๊ณ ๋งˆ์›Œ์š”. (Thank you. Thank you so much for helping me.)

๋ญ ํ•ด์š”? (mwo haeyo?) โ†’ What are you doing?

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ๋ญ ํ•ด์š”? ์ง€๊ธˆ ์ˆ™์ œ๋ฅผ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์š”. (What are you doing? I'm doing homework right now.)

๋ฏธ์•ˆํ•ด์š” (mianhaeyo) โ†’ I'm sorry

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ๋ฏธ์•ˆํ•ด์š”. ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์‹ค์ˆ˜ํ–ˆ์–ด์š”. (I'm sorry. I made a mistake.)

์ž˜ ๋ชจ๋ฅด๊ฒ ์–ด์š” (jal moreugesseoyo) โ†’ I don't understand

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ์ดํ•ด๋ฅผ ๋ชป ํ–ˆ์–ด์š”. ์ž˜ ๋ชจ๋ฅด๊ฒ ์–ด์š”. (I didn't understand. I don't understand well.)

๋‹ค์‹œ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ๋งํ•ด์ฃผ์„ธ์š” (dasi hanbeon malhaejuseyo) โ†’ Please say it again

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ๋‹ค์‹œ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ๋งํ•ด์ฃผ์„ธ์š”. ์ดํ•ด๊ฐ€ ์•ˆ ๋ผ์š”. (Please say it again. I don't understand.)

์ดํ•ด๊ฐ€ ๋ผ์š” (ihaega dwaeyo) โ†’ I understand

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ์ดํ•ด๊ฐ€ ๋ผ์š”. ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (I understand. Thank you.)

์ฒœ์ฒœํžˆ ๋งํ•ด์ฃผ์„ธ์š” (cheoncheonhi malhaejuseyo) โ†’ Please speak slowly

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ์ฒœ์ฒœํžˆ ๋งํ•ด์ฃผ์„ธ์š”. ์ œ๊ฐ€ ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด๋ฅผ ์ž˜ ๋ชปํ•ด์š”. (Please speak slowly. I'm not good at Korean.)

๊ดœ์ฐฎ์•„์š” (gwaench'anayo) โ†’ It's okay

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์•„์š”. ํฐ ๋ฌธ์ œ๋Š” ์•„๋‹ˆ์—์š”. (It's okay. It's not a big problem.)

๋ฌด์Šจ ๋ง์ธ์ง€ ๋ชจ๋ฅด๊ฒ ์–ด์š” (museun mal-inji moreugesseoyo) โ†’ I don't know what you mean

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ๋ฌด์Šจ ๋ง์ธ์ง€ ๋ชจ๋ฅด๊ฒ ์–ด์š”. ๋‹ค์‹œ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•ด์ฃผ์„ธ์š”. (I don't know what you mean. Please explain again.)

์ œ๋ฐœ ๋„์™€์ฃผ์„ธ์š” (jebal dowajuseyo) โ†’ Please help me

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ์ œ๋ฐœ ๋„์™€์ฃผ์„ธ์š”. ์–ด๋ ค์›Œ์„œ ๋ชปํ•˜๊ฒ ์–ด์š”. (Please help me. I can't do it because it's difficult.)

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