Korean Phrasebook: 50 Useful Expressions

A list of common phrases and expressions in Korean with translations to English and examples.


28 words in this list

๋ญ์˜ˆ์š”? (mwoyeyo?) โ†’ What is it?

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ๊ทธ๊ฑฐ ๋ญ์˜ˆ์š”? (What's that?)

์‹ค๋ก€ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค (sillyehamnida) โ†’ Excuse me

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ์‹ค๋ก€ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค, ์ด์ชฝ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋ฉด ๋˜๋‚˜์š”? (Excuse me, is it this way?)

์ฒœ๋งŒ์—์š” (cheonmaneyo) โ†’ You're welcome

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. - ์ฒœ๋งŒ์—์š”. (Thank you. - You're welcome.)

์–ด๋””๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋‚˜์š”? (eodilo ganayo?) โ†’ Where are you going?

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ์–ด๋””๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋‚˜์š”? ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๊ฐ€๋„ ๋ ๊นŒ์š”? (Where are you going? Can I come with you?)

ํ™”์ดํŒ…! (hwaiting!) โ†’ Fighting!

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ์‹œํ—˜ ์ž˜ ๋ณผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ํ™”์ดํŒ…! (Fighting for doing well on the exam!)

๊ณ ๋งˆ์›Œ์š” (gomawoyo) โ†’ Thank you

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ๊ณ ๋งˆ์›Œ์š”, ๋„์™€์ฃผ์…”์„œ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ด์š”. (Thank you, thank you for helping me.)

์ž˜ ์ง€๋‚ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์š”? (jal jinaego isseoyo?) โ†’ Are you doing well?

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ์ž˜ ์ง€๋‚ด๊ณ ์žˆ์–ด์š”? ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์ง€๋‚ด๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‚˜์š”? (Are you doing well? How have you been?)

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

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

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

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค, ๋„์™€์ฃผ์…”์„œ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ด์š”. (Thank you, thank you for helping me.)

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

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ๋ฏธ์•ˆํ•ด์š”, ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์ž˜๋ชปํ–ˆ์–ด์š”. (I'm sorry, I was wrong.)

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

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ์ €๋Š” ์ง‘์— ์žˆ์–ด์š”. ๋‹น์‹ ์€ ์–ด๋””์— ์žˆ์–ด์š”? (I'm at home. Where are you?)

๋„ค (ne) โ†’ Yes

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

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

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ์ œ ์ด๋ฆ„์€ ์˜ํฌ์˜ˆ์š”. ๋‹น์‹  ์ด๋ฆ„์ด ๋ญ์˜ˆ์š”? (My name is Yeonghee. What's your name?)

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

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์•„์š”, ๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ๋„˜์–ด๊ฐ€์„ธ์š”. (It's okay, just let it go.)

์ฆ๊ฑฐ์šด ์ €๋… ๋˜์„ธ์š” (jeulgeoun jeonyeog doeseyo) โ†’ Have a good evening

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ์ฆ๊ฑฐ์šด ์ €๋… ๋˜์„ธ์š”, ๋‚ด์ผ ๋ต™๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (Have a good evening, see you tomorrow.)

์ž˜ ์ž์š” (jal jayo) โ†’ Good night

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ์ž˜ ์ž์š”, ๋‚ด์ผ ๋ต™๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (Good night, see you tomorrow.)

์ž˜ ์ง€๋‚ด์„ธ์š”? (jal jinaeseyo?) โ†’ How are you?

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ์ €๋Š” ์ž˜ ์ง€๋‚ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์š”. ๋‹น์‹ ์€ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์ง€๋‚ด์„ธ์š”? (I'm doing well. How about you?)

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

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

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

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์„ธ์š”, ์ €๋Š” ์ฒ ์ˆ˜์˜ˆ์š”. (Hello, I'm Cheolsu.)

์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•˜๋‚˜์š”? (eotteoke haeya hanayo?) โ†’ What should I do?

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ์ด ๋ฌธ์ œ๋ฅผ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•˜๋‚˜์š”? (What should I do about this problem?)

๋งž์•„์š” (majayo) โ†’ That's right

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ๋งž์•„์š”, ๊ทธ๊ฒŒ ๋งž์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (That's right, that's correct.)

์•„๋‹ˆ์˜ค (anio) โ†’ No

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ์•„๋‹ˆ์˜ค, ๊ทธ๊ฒŒ ์•„๋‹™๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (No, that's not it.)

์–ด๋””์˜ˆ์š”? (eodiyeoyo?) โ†’ Where is it?

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ ์–ด๋””์— ์žˆ์–ด์š”? (Where is it?)

์ดํ•ด๊ฐ€ ์•ˆ ๋ผ์š” (ihaega an dwaeyo) โ†’ I don't understand

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ์ด ๋ฌธ์žฅ์˜ ๋œป์ด ์ดํ•ด๊ฐ€ ์•ˆ ๋ผ์š”. (I don't understand the meaning of this sentence.)

์กฐ๊ธˆ๋งŒ ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ ค์ฃผ์„ธ์š” (jogeumman gidaryeojuseyo) โ†’ Please wait a little

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ์กฐ๊ธˆ๋งŒ ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ ค์ฃผ์„ธ์š”, ๊ณง ์™„์„ฑ๋  ๊ฑฐ์˜ˆ์š”. (Please wait a little, it will be completed soon.)

์ข‹์€ ์•„์นจ์ด์—์š” (joh-eun achimieyo) โ†’ Good morning

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ์ข‹์€ ์•„์นจ์ด์—์š”, ์˜ค๋Š˜๋„ ํ™”์ดํŒ…ํ•˜์„ธ์š”! (Good morning, have a great day today too!)

์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋˜๋‚˜์š”? (eotteoke doenayo?) โ†’ What happened?

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋˜๋‚˜์š”? ๋ฌด์Šจ ์ผ์ด ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‚˜์š”? (What happened? What's the matter?)

์ž ๊น๋งŒ์š” (jamkkanmanyo) โ†’ Wait a moment

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ์ž ๊น๋งŒ์š”, ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์ข€ ๋” ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด๋ด์•ผ๊ฒ ์–ด์š”. (Wait a moment, I need to think more about it.)

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