Beginner Korean Phrases - KoreanClass101

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Hi, everyone. Welcome to Ask KJIN. My name is KJIN.

안녕하세요, K-Jin입니다 (Annyeonghaseyo, keijinimnida).

In this series, I'll answer your Korean questions.

Today, I picked questions related to beginner Korean phrases.

Here's the first question from Ayaka. Thank you, Ayaka.

What are the most basic Korean phrases? The first phrase is 안녕하세요 (Annyeonghaseyo). 안녕하세요. It means hello. And if you want to say this phrase politely, actually, this is how Korean people bow.

안녕하세요.

This is very popular phrase, so I think you've heard of it before, right? Hopefully. And the next phrase is this.

Bye, goodbye. 안녕히 가세요 (Annyeonghigaseyo). 안녕히 가세요. 안녕히 (annyeonghi) means in peace. And 가세요 (gaseyo) means go. So it literally means go in peace, go in peace.

But it's more like goodbye in Korean. And this is very polite phrase.

안녕히 가세요. 안녕히 가세요. And the next phrase is goodbye again.

안녕히 계세요 (Annyeonghigyeseyo). 안녕히 계세요. 안녕히 계세요. So what's the difference between the previous one and this one? So the previous one, as I mentioned, it means go in peace.

And this one has 계세요 (gyeseyo), right? It means stay. So it means stay in peace, stay well. So 안녕히 계세요. So this is very polite too.

So for example, there are two people. This person invited this person. They're home.

So this person visited this person's house. And now this person has to go back home. While they're going back home, he said 안녕히 계세요. 안녕히 계세요. Because this person will stay home. So he said, stay well, stay well. 안녕히 계세요. And this person is saying 안녕히 가세요.

Because the person is leaving. So 안녕히 가세요. So these are the phrases. It can be confusing, right? Because you have to think who is leaving and who is staying. So in this case, there is a simpler version. 짠 (jjan), see you again. 또 봐요 (Tto bwayo). 또 봐요. 또 (tto) means again and 봐요 (bwayo) means see you. So 또, again.

So as you can guess, if you replace 또 with another word, then you can make other phrases such as 이따 봐요 (Itta bwayo), 이따 봐요 means see you soon, see you later. Or see you tomorrow.

Tomorrow is 내일 (naeil). 내일 봐요 (Naeil bwayo). 내일 봐요. Or any other phrase is okay like 다음에 봐요 (Daeume bwayo).

See you next time. Just replace this word and say 봐요. 봐요. So in this case, you don't have to think if the person is leaving or staying. And the next phrase is 죄송합니다 (Joesonghamnida), 죄송합니다.

This is very formal and polite, humble. 죄송합니다. 죄송합니다. I'm sorry. And do you know the casual version of I'm sorry is 미안해 (Mianae). 미안해. So this is very casual and you will use this phrase when you're talking to your friends. So 미안해. And 죄송합니다 is to someone that you don't know very well or someone you have to show your respect. So 죄송합니다.

So if someone says 죄송합니다 to you, how should you answer? Your answer would be 괜찮아요 (Gwaenchanayo). 괜찮아요. 괜찮아요. It's okay. By the way, we don't say 괜찮아요 like this.

Well, I just found the random image and it represent okay very well. So I did, but we don't actually do this body gesture like I'm sorry, it's okay. You can do that if you want, but it's not something common. Anyway, 괜찮아요 is a phrase that you will say. If you want, you can omit this. 괜찮아 is a casual phrase.

짠.

Now let's say thank you. She received a 선물 (seonmul), 선물, present. So she say 감사합니다 (Gamsahamnida), 감사합니다, 감사합니다. Thank you. 감사합니다. So this is formal. How can I say very casually to your friends or family members or someone who is very younger, much younger than you, then you say 고마워 (Gomawo). 고마워. Thank you. So casual version, 감사합니다 is formal version. And as a beginner, I recommend you to memorize the polite version first, then the casual one. So 감사합니다. If someone say 감사합니다 to you, then how would you answer? You can say 괜찮아요 as you learned or you can also say not at all, don't mention it. 아니에요 (Anieyo), 아니에요, 아니에요. Not at all. So these are the phrases that you should remember first if you want to know the basic phrases.

Here's the second question from Mikey. Thank you Mikey.

What are essential Korean phrases for my Korean class? I will say this. I do lots of video lessons and I always get this question.

Teacher, how can I say blah blah blah in Korean? And you can actually ask that question in Korean too, which is 한국어로 [the word] 어떻게 말해요 (Hangugeoro [the word] eotteoke malhaeyo)? 한국어로 [the word] 어떻게 말해요? So it means how do you say the word in Korean? You can replace this word with anything you want to know. For example, you want to know how to say mirror in Korean, then you can ask this. Teacher, how do you say mirror in Korean? How do you say mirror in Korean? 한국어로 [mirror] 어떻게 말해요 (Hangugeoro [mirror] eotteoke malhaeyo)? So just put the English word directly if the teacher understands English.

So you can use this phrase in your classes, right? 한국어로 [the word] 어떻게 말해요? And another useful classroom phrase is this [word] 이/가 무슨 뜻이에요 ([word] i/ga museun tteusieyo)? [word] 이/가 무슨 뜻이에요? What does [word] mean? For example, you just heard this expression, this word 거울 (geoul), 거울 and you're like 거울? What does it mean? What does 거울 mean? What does 거울 mean? In Korean that is 거울이 무슨 뜻이에요 (Geouri museun tteusieyo)? 거울이 무슨 뜻이에요? What does 거울 mean? By the way, 거울 means mirror. So now I just say 거울이 무슨 뜻이에요? 거울이 무슨 뜻이에요? So I'm using the 짜자잔 (jjajajan), 이 (i) or 가 (ja), the subject marking particle and I chose 이 here as in 거울이 (geouri), 거울이, 거울이. Why? Because 거울, 울 (ul), 울, 거울. Let me write it for you here.

This word ends with a consonant, right? 거울. 짜잔 (jjajan), consonant. So I'm using 이 here.

If the word ends with a vowel, then you will use 가, 가, 가. So think. 짠. If the word ends with a consonant or vowel because it's very important. So remember these two phrases first when you ask a question to your teacher in your classroom. Here's the last question from Patricia. Thank you, Patricia. What Korean phrases should I use as a beginner speaking to native Koreans? As a beginner, you probably want to remember this phrase because we don't know all the Korean words yet. So you want to say, please say it one more time. What did you say? Can you say that again? In Korean that is 한 번 더 말해주세요 (Han beon deo malhaejuseyo). 한 번 더 말해주세요. 한 번 더 말해주세요. 한 (han) means one, and 번 (beon) means time. So 한 번 (han beon) means one time or once.

더 (deo) means more. So 한 번 더 (han beon deo) means once more or one more time. 말해주세요 (malhaejuseyo) means please say or please speak. So 한 번 더 말해주세요, please say one more time. And if you replace 한 번 더 with another phrase, 짜잔, another word. 천천히 (cheoncheonhi) hmm, then it means please say slowly because native Korean people speak super fast. So you can say 천천히 말해주세요 (Cheoncheonhi malhaejuseyo), 천천히 말해주세요.

천천히 말해주세요. please say slowly. Useful, isn't it? The next phrase is this. Could you write it? Could you write it for me? 써 주시겠어요? (Sseo jusigesseoyo?) 써 주시겠어요? 써 주시겠어요? Could you write it? Maybe you can prepare notebook and a pen or you can just give your phone like oh could you write it here so you can google it because when Korean people talk about some things you might not understand especially the name of the place is so hard then you can ask them to write it for you.

The last phrase is this. Sorry, I don't understand. I don't know.

잘 모르겠어요 (Jal moreugesseoyo). 잘 모르겠어요. 잘 모르겠어요. So, 잘 모르겠어요.

If you want to say sorry but then you can also add this phrase. 짜잔.

죄송 (joesong), 죄송한데 (joesonghande) or 죄송하지만 (joesonghajiman) 죄송하지만.

Both means sorry but. But 죄송한데 sounds a little more colloquial and 죄송하지만 means a little more formal. I mean both of them are formal so you can use it but when I speak I tend to use 죄송한데, 죄송한데. So I'm sorry but I don't understand. 죄송한데 잘 모르겠어요 (Joesonghande jal moreugesseoyo). Where is the Seoul station? Oh it's also my first time. 죄송한데 잘 모르겠어요. So I hope today's phrases are useful.

That's it for this lesson. Today I answered three questions about beginner Korean phrases.

Thanks for watching. I'm K-jin and I see you on KoreanClass101.com.

다음 시간에 봐요! (Daeum sigane bwayo!)

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