๐คConfusing Business Korean expression⑤์ ๋๋ถ์ฌ [์์ฃผ? ์กฐ๊ธ?]
Tricky Korean Expressions
์์ญ๋ฌ์ญํ ํ๊ตญ์ด ํํ๋ค!⑤
ํ๊ตญ์ด์๋ ํ๋ถํ ํ์ฉ์ฌ์ ๋ถ์ฌ๊ฐ ๊ฐ๋ํ๋ค. ๊ฐ๋ น ๊ฐ์ ์ ํํํ๋ ๋ค์ํ ๋ถ์ฌ๋ค์ ์ธ๊ตญ์ธ๋ค์ด ๊ทธ ๋ฏธ๋ฌํ ์ฐจ์ด๋ฅผ ์ดํดํ๊ธฐ ํ๋ค ๋๊ฐ ์๋ค.๐ค
"Korean is rich in adjectives and adverbs. For example, the various adverbs that express emotions can make it difficult for foreigners to fully understand their subtle differences."
์ค๋์ ๋ฏธ๋ฌํ ํ๊ตญ์ด์ ์์์ด ์ฒด๊ณ์์, ์ ๋ฌดํ์ฅ์์ ๊ฐ์ ์ ํํํ ๋ ๋ง์ด ์ฐ๊ณ ๋ฃ๋ ํํ์ ์๊ฐํ๊ณ ์ ํ๋ค.๐
Today, I'd like to introduce some expressions that are frequently used and heard in the workplace when expressing emotions, focusing on the subtle system of modifiers in Korean(Korean job)
✔์ ๋๋ถ์ฌ
adverbs of degree
- ๋งค์ฐ (mae-woo) ██████████ (100%) → Top-level emphasis
- ์์ฃผ (ah-joo) ██████████ (80%) → Strong emphasis (similar to "๋งค์ฐ" but slightly lower)
- ๊ฝค (kwae) ██████████ (50%) → Mid-to-high intensity
- ๋ณ๋ก (byeol-loh) ██████████ (20%) → Negative, slightly low
- ์ ํ (juhn-hyuh) ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ (0%) → Complete negation
๋งค์ฐ [mae-woo] : ์ ๋๊ฐ ์์ฃผ ๋์ ์ํ๋ฅผ ๋ํ๋ผ ๋์ด๋ค.๐
Used to indicate a very high degree or state.
์) Grace ์จ๋ ์ค๋ ํ์ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์ ๋ํด ๋งค์ฐ ๋ง์กฑ์ค๋ฌ์ํ๋ค.๐
Grace is very satisfied with today's meeting results.
Mike ์จ๋ ์๋ก์ด ํ๋ก์ ํธ์ ๋ํด ๋งค์ฐ ๊ธฐ๋ํ๊ณ ์๋ค.๐คฉ
Mike is very much looking forward to the new project.
์์ฃผ [ah-joo] : ๋งค์ฐ ๋ณด๋ค๋ ์ฝ๊ฐ ์ฝํ์ง๋ง ๋์ ์ ๋๋ฅผ ๋ํ๋ผ ๋์ด๋ค.๐
Used to indicate a high degree, slightly less than "๋งค์ฐ".
์) Grace ์จ๋ ํ๊ตญ ๋ฌธํ์ ๋ํด ์์ฃผ ํฅ๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ๋๋๋ค.๐ฐ๐ท
Grace is very interested in Korean culture.
Mike ์จ๋ ์ค๋ ๋ฐํ๋ฅผ ์์ฃผ ์ ํ๋ค.๐
Mike did a very good job with his presentation today.
๊ฝค [kwae] : ์ด๋ ์ ๋๋๋ง ๋ง์กฑํ๊ฑฐ๋ ๊ด์ฐฎ์ ์ ๋๋ฅผ ๋ํ๋ผ ๋์ด๋ค.๐
Used to indicate a somewhat satisfactory or decent level.
์) Grace ์จ๋ ํ๊ตญ์ด ์ค๋ ฅ์ด ๊ฝค ๋์๋ค.๐ฃ️
Grace's Korean language skills have improved quite a bit.
Mike ์จ๋ ์์ธ ์ํ์ ๊ฝค ์ ์ํ๋ค.๐️
Mike has adapted quite well to life in Seoul.
๋ณ๋ก [byeol-loh] : ๊ธฐ๋๋ ๊ธฐ์ค์ ๋ฏธ์น์ง ๋ชปํ๊ฑฐ๋ ๋ง์กฑ์ค๋ฝ์ง ๋ชปํ ์ ๋๋ฅผ ๋ํ๋ผ ๋ (๋ถ์ ์ ์ธ ์๋ฏธ์ ํจ๊ป ์ฌ์ฉ)์ด๋ค.๐
Used to indicate that something does not meet expectations or is not satisfactory (used with negative connotations).
์) Grace ์จ๋ ์ด์ ๋ณธ ์ํ๊ฐ ๋ณ๋ก ์ฌ๋ฏธ์์๋ค.๐ฌ
Grace didn't find the movie she saw yesterday very interesting.
Mike ์จ๋ ์ค๋ ์ปจ๋์ ์ด ๋ณ๋ก ์ข์ง ์๋ค.๐ค
Mike's condition isn't very good today.
์ ํ [juhn-hyuh] : ๋ถ์ ์ ์ธ ์ ๋๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์กฐํ์ฌ ์์ ํ ๊ทธ๋ ์ง ์๋ค๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋ํ๋ผ ๋ (๋ถ์ ์ ์ธ ์๋ฏธ์ ํจ๊ป ์ฌ์ฉ)์ด๋ค.๐ ♀️
Used to emphasize a negative degree, indicating that something is completely not the case (used with negative connotations).
์) Grace ์จ๋ ๊ทธ ์์์ ๋ฃ๊ณ ์ ํ ๋๋ผ์ง ์์๋ค.๐ฎ
Grace wasn't at all surprised by the news.
Mike ์จ๋ ๊ทธ ๋ฌธ์ ์ ๋ํด ์ ํ ์์ง ๋ชปํ๋ค.๐คท♂️
Mike had absolutely no idea about the issue.
"Of course, besides the adverbs of degree presented above, there are various other expressions, and the nuances of each adverb can be subtle.
์ ๋ฌด ์ํฉ์์๋ ์์ ์ ๊ฐ์ ์ด๋ ์ํ๋ฅผ ์ ํํ๊ฒ ํํํ๋ ๊ฒ์ด ์ค์ํ ๊ฒ์ด๋ค.
'๋งค์ฐ'์ '์์ฃผ'์ ์ฐจ์ด, ํน์ '๋ณ๋ก'์ '์ ํ'์ ์ฐจ์ด๋ฅผ ์ดํดํ๊ณ ์ ์ ํ๊ฒ ์ฌ์ฉํ๋ ๊ฒ์
๋๋ฃ๋ค๊ณผ์ ์ํํ ์ํต์ ํฐ ๋์์ด ๋ ๊ฒ์ด๋ค.๐ค
์์ ์ ์๊ฐ์ด๋ ๋๋์ ํํํ ๋, ์ด๋ค ์ ๋ ๋ถ์ฌ๋ฅผ ์ฌ์ฉํ๋ ๊ฒ์ด ๊ฐ์ฅ ์ ์ ํ์ง
๊ณ ๋ฏผํ๊ณ ์ฐ์ตํด ๋ณด๋ ๊ฒ์ด ์ข๋ค.✍️
When expressing your thoughts or feelings, it is good to think about and practice which adverb of degree is most appropriate to use.
๋ค์ํ ์ํฉ์์ ์ ๋๋ถ์ฌ๋ฅผ ํ์ฉํ์ฌ ๋ฌธ์ฅ์ ๋ง๋ค์ด ๋ณด๊ณ , ๋๋ฃ๋ค๊ณผ ์ํตํ ๋ ์ฌ์ฉํด ๋ณด๋ ๊ฒ์ด๋ค.๐ฃ️
Try making sentences using adverbs of degree in various situations and use them when communicating with your colleagues."
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