Korean Greetings and Introductions
– Essential words and phrases to know –
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Learn the essentials of Korean easily with this vocabulary list that contains all the most basic words and phrases used in Korean for greetings and Introductions, with their english translations. If you’re a beginner, it will come in handy to review or learn Korean by yourself before traveling, or if you want to enrich and improve your Korean vocabulary to better express yourself in writing and speaking!
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| ENGLISH | KOREAN | PRONUNCIATION |
| Hello | ์๋ ํ์ญ๋๊น | annyeonghasibnikka |
| Good morning! | ์ข์ ์์นจ! | joh-eun achim! |
| Good afternoon! | ์๋ ํ์ธ์! | annyeonghaseyo! |
| Hi | ์๋ | annyeong |
| Good evening | ์ข์ ์ ๋ ์ด์์ | joh-eun jeonyeog-ieyo |
| Good night | ์๋ ํ ์ฃผ๋ฌด์ธ์ | annyeonghi jumuseyo |
| Sleep well | ์ ์ | jal ja |
| How are you? | ์ ์ง๋ด๊ณ ์๋์? | jal jinaego issnayo? |
| Iโm fine, thank you. | ๋ ๊ด์ฐฎ์, ๊ณ ๋ง์. | nan gwaenchanh-a, gomawo. |
| How about you? | ๋น์ ์ ์ด๋ค๊ฐ์? | dangsin-eun eotteongayo? |
| Nice to meet you. | ๋ง๋์ ๋ฐ๊ฐ์ต๋๋ค. | mannaseo bangabseubnida. |
| Nice to meet you too. | ์ ๋ ๋ง๋์ ๋ฐ๊ฐ์์. | jeodo mannaseo bangawoyo. |
| Likewise | ๋น์ทํ๊ฒ | biseushage |
| Itโs good to see you. | ๋ง๋์ ๋ฐ๊ฐ์ต๋๋ค. | mannaseo bangabseubnida. |
| Nice to see you again. | ๋ค์ ๋ต์ ์ข๋ค์. | dasi boeseo johneyo. |
| Pleased to meet you. | ๋ง๋์ ๋ฐ๊ฐ์ต๋๋ค. | mannaseo bangabseubnida. |
| How nice to see you! | ๋ง๋์ ๋ฐ๊ฐ์ต๋๋ค! | mannaseo bangabseubnida! |
| Whatโs up? | ๋ฌด์จ ์ผ์ด์ผ? | museun il-iya? |
| What brings you here? | ์ฌ๊ธฐ์์ ๋น์ ์ ์ ๊ณตํฉ๋๋ค? | yeogieseo dangsin-eul jegonghabnida? |
| When youโre leaving | ||
| Goodbye | ์๋ | annyeong |
| I hope weโll meet again. | ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๋ค์ ๋ง๋ ์ ์๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๋๋๋ค. | uliga dasi mannal su issgileul balabnida. |
| Iโve got to go. | ๊ฐ์ผ ํด์. | gaya haeyo. |
| It was good meeting you. | ๋ง๋์ ๋ฐ๊ฐ์ ์ต๋๋ค. | mannaseo bangawossseubnida. |
| It was great seeing you again. | ๋ค์ ๋ง๋ ๋ฐ๊ฐ์ ์ต๋๋ค. | dasi manna bangawossseubnida. |
| It was great to catch up! | ๋ฐ๋ผ์ก๊ธฐ ์ข์์ด์! | ttalajabgi joh-ass-eoyo! |
| See you again sometime. | ์ธ์ ๊ฐ ๋ค์ ๋ณด์. | eonjenga dasi boja. |
| See you in the morning | ์์นจ์ ๋ด | achim-e bwa |
| See you later | ๋์ค์ ๋ด์ | najung-e bwayo |
| See you soon | ๊ณง ๋ด์ | god bwayo |
| See you tomorrow | ๋ด์ผ ๋ด์ | naeil bwayo |
| See you tonight | ์ค๋ ๋ฐค์ ๋ณด์ | oneul bam-e boja |
| Sleep well | ์ ์ | jal ja |
| Take care. | ์ ์ง๋ด์ธ์. | jal jinaeseyo. |
| Other greetings | ||
| Bless you | ์ถ๋ณตํฉ๋๋ค | chugboghabnida |
| Cheers! | ๊ฑด๋ฐฐ! | geonbae! |
| Farewell | ์๋ณ | jagbyeol |
| Good luck! | ํ์ด์ ๋น๋๋ค! | haeng-un-eul bibnida! |
| Talk to you soon | ๊ณง ์๊ธฐํด | god yaegihae |
| Welcome | ์ด์ ์ค์ญ์์ค | eoseo osibsio |
| Well done! | ์ํ์ด์! | jalhaess-eoyo! |
โก๏ธ More Korean vocabulary lists:
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- Useful adjectives
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- The human body, head and face
- Contrary words
- Travel and tourism
- The calendar (days, months, seasons)
- Colors and shapes
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