You will shortly learn the Korean alphabet, and then you should use this section to review the Basic Expressions. Until then, you may find it helpful to have a rough Roman-script indication of how the sentences sound, and we have provided you with this in the following section. The transcription there reproduces the same set of expressions, but in a phonetic notation so as to give you a guide to pronunciation.
| 1. | ๋ค or ์. | Yes. |
| 2. | ์๋์ค. | No. |
| 3. | ๊น์ ์๋, ์๋ ํ์ธ์? | How are you, Mr. Kim? [Explanation: ๊น (a family name); ์ ์ teacher, Mr. or Mrs. or Ms.; ์ ์๋ revered teacher, Mr., Mrs. or Ms.; ์๋ ํ์ธ์? Are you peaceful (=well)?] |
| 4. | ๋ค. ์๋ ํ์ธ์? | Fine, how are you? |
| 5. | …์ ๋๋ค. | I’m… |
| 6. | ๋ง๋์ ๋ฐ๊ฐ์ต๋๋ค. | Nice to meet you; nice to see you. [Literally: I meet you, so I am pleased] |
| 7. | ์๋ ํ ๊ฐ์ธ์. | Good-bye! [To one who is leaving = Go in peace (i.e. health)] |
| 8. | ์๋ ํ ๊ณ์ธ์. | Good-bye! [To one who is staying = Stay in peace (= health)] |
| 9. | ์๊ณ ํ์ญ๋๋ค. | Hello! [to someone working] |
| ์๊ณ ํ์ธ์. | Good-bye! [to someone working] | |
| ์๊ณ ํ์ จ์ด์. | Thank you for helping me or Well done! [Explanation: ์๊ณ hard work, i.e. You’re doing a great job, Keep up the good work, and Well done.] | |
| 10. | ์ฒ์ ๋ต๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค.. | Pleased to make your acquaintance. [Literally: I see you for the first time (formally), i.e. How do you do?] |
| 11. | ๋ ๋ต๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. | See you later! [FORMAL] [Explanation: ๋ again, ๋ต๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค will humbly see / meet = I will see you] |
| 12. | ๊ณ ๋ง์ต๋๋ค or ๊ฐ์ฌํฉ๋๋ค. | Thank you. |
| 13. | ์ฒ๋ง์์ or ๊ด์ฐฎ์์. | You’re welcome! or Don’t mention it! [= It’s one of ten million (words)] |
| 14. | ์ด์ ์ค์ธ์! | Welcome! [= Come (in) right away!] |
| 15. | ๋ค์ด์ค์ธ์! | Come in! [= Please enter] |
| 16. | ์์ผ์ธ์. | Please take a seat / sit down. |
| 17. | ์ค๋กํฉ๋๋ค. | Excuse me (for what I am doing). [= I am committing a discourtesy] |
| ์ค๋กํ์ต๋๋ค. | Excuse me (for what I did). [= I have committed a discourtesy] | |
| ์ค๋กํ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. | Excuse me (for what I’m about to do). [= I am about to commit a discourtesy] | |
| 18. | ๋ฏธ์ํฉ๋๋ค or ์ฃ์กํฉ๋๋ค. | I’m sorry or Excuse me. [= I feel uneasy] |
| 19. | ์๋์ค, ๊ด์ฐฎ์์. | Not at all, it’s all right; No, thanks. [Explanation: ์๋์ค No; ๊ด์ฐฎ์์ It makes no difference, it doesn’t matter, it’s okay] |
| 20. | ์ฌ๋ณด์ธ์! | Hello! or Hey there! [Hello on the telephone, or when peering into a dark house. Also means Look here!] |
| 21. | ์๊ฐ์ด ๋ค ๋์ต๋๋ค. | It’s time (to begin or stop). [Explanation: ์๊ฐ time; ์๊ฐ์ด time (as subject); ๋ค all, completely; ๋์ต๋๋ค it has become. . .] |
| 22. | ๋ ๋ด์. | See you later! [POLITE] [= See you again. This is less formal than 20] |
| 23. | ๊ทธ๋์? | Is that so? Really? |
| ๊ทธ๋์. | That’s so. Really. |