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Asking for Specific Customizations in a Purchase

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Specific Customizations in a Purchase
Order exactly what you want โ€” how to request modifications, adjustments, and special requests in Korean.
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Iru Helper Note
Customizing your order is a normal, expected part of shopping and dining in Korea. Knowing the right phrases makes it easy and polite.
์„คํƒ• ๋นผ๊ณ  ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.
(Please make it without sugar.)
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๐Ÿ›๏ธ What You'll Learn Today

Whether you're ordering a coffee with specific adjustments, requesting a clothing alteration, or asking for a product in a different size or color, the ability to customize your purchase is essential. In this lesson, you'll learn the vocabulary and phrases to make specific requests in Korean โ€” politely and clearly. These expressions work in cafรฉs, restaurants, shops, and any service setting.

๐Ÿ“Œ Customization Phrases

Expression
Meaning
Notes
~๋นผ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”
Please leave out ~ / without ~
์„คํƒ• ๋นผ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š” = without sugar
~๋„ฃ์–ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”
Please put in ~ / add ~
์–ผ์Œ ๋„ฃ์–ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š” = please add ice
~์ค„์—ฌ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”
Please reduce ~
๋‹น๋„ ์ค„์—ฌ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š” = less sweet
~๋Š˜๋ ค ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”
Please increase ~
์ƒท ๋Š˜๋ ค ์ฃผ์„ธ์š” = extra shot
~์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐ”๊ฟ” ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”
Please change to ~
์šฐ์œ ๋ฅผ ๋‘์œ ๋กœ ๋ฐ”๊ฟ” ์ฃผ์„ธ์š” = change milk to soy
๋”ฐ๋กœ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”
Please give it separately
E.g. dressing on the side
๋ฐ์›Œ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”
Please warm it up
Food / drinks
์ฐจ๊ฐ‘๊ฒŒ ํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”
Please make it cold
ใ…ค
๋œ ๋งต๊ฒŒ ํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”
Please make it less spicy
๋œ = less
๋” ๋งต๊ฒŒ ํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”
Please make it spicier
๋” = more
์‚ฌ์ด์ฆˆ ์˜ฌ๋ ค ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”
Please upsize / go up a size
Clothing or drinks
๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ƒ‰์ƒ ์žˆ์–ด์š”?
Do you have another color?
Color inquiry
๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์‚ฌ์ด์ฆˆ ์žˆ์–ด์š”?
Do you have another size?
Size inquiry
๋”ฑ ๋งž๊ฒŒ ์ˆ˜์„ ํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”
Please tailor it to fit perfectly
Clothing alteration
๐Ÿ’ก Key pattern: [What to change] + ~๋นผ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š” / ~๋„ฃ์–ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š” / ~๋ฐ”๊ฟ” ์ฃผ์„ธ์š” โ€” these three cover most customization requests. Add ์ข€ before the verb for a softer, more polite tone.

๐Ÿ’ฌ Conversations in Action

Dialogue 1 โ€” At a Cafรฉ
A: ์•„์ด์Šค ์•„๋ฉ”๋ฆฌ์นด๋…ธ ํ•œ ์ž” ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”. (One iced Americano please.)
B: ๋„ค, ๋‹น๋„๋‚˜ ์–ผ์Œ ์กฐ์ ˆ ์›ํ•˜์„ธ์š”? (Sure, would you like to adjust the sweetness or ice?)
A: ์„คํƒ• ๋นผ ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ณ ์š”, ์–ผ์Œ์€ ์กฐ๊ธˆ๋งŒ ๋„ฃ์–ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”. (Please leave out the sugar, and just a little ice please.)
B: ์•Œ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ˜น์‹œ ์šฐ์œ  ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ์›ํ•˜์„ธ์š”? (Understood. Would you like to add milk?)
A: ์•„๋‹ˆ์š”, ๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”. (No, just as it is please.)
Dialogue 2 โ€” At a Clothing Shop
A: ์ด ๋ฐ”์ง€ ๋งˆ์Œ์— ๋“œ๋Š”๋ฐ ์ข€ ์ปค์š”. (I like these pants but they're a bit big.)
B: ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์‚ฌ์ด์ฆˆ ์žˆ์–ด์š”? (Do you have another size?)
A: ๋„ค, ํ•œ ์‚ฌ์ด์ฆˆ ์•„๋ž˜๋กœ ๊ฐ€์ ธ๋‹ค ๋“œ๋ฆด๊ฒŒ์š”. (Yes, I'll bring you one size down.)
B: ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ƒ‰์ƒ์ด ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๊ฑฐ ์žˆ์–ด์š”? (And do you have it in a different color?)
A: ๊ฒ€์ •์ด๋ž‘ ๋ฒ ์ด์ง€๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์–ด์š”. (We have black and beige.)

๐ŸŒ Cultural Note โ€” Customization Culture in Korea

Koreans are accustomed to making specific customizations โ€” especially at cafรฉs, where drink menus often have sweetness (๋‹น๋„), ice level (์–ผ์Œ ์–‘), and shot options (์ƒท ์ถ”๊ฐ€). At restaurants, requesting ๋œ ๋งต๊ฒŒ (less spicy) or ๋”ฐ๋กœ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š” (on the side) is common and not considered difficult. Being specific about what you want is seen as practical, not demanding. Phrasing your request with ์ฃผ์„ธ์š” keeps everything polite โ€” there's no need to over-apologize for a reasonable customization.

<summary>Try This Speaking Exercise
Practice making specific customization requests in realistic situations.
A. Order an iced coffee without sugar.
<summary>Answer
์•„์ด์Šค ์•„๋ฉ”๋ฆฌ์นด๋…ธ ํ•œ ์ž” ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”. ์„คํƒ• ๋นผ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”. (One iced Americano please. Without sugar please.)
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B. Ask for extra ice in your drink.
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์–ผ์Œ ๋งŽ์ด ๋„ฃ์–ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”. (Please put in a lot of ice.)
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C. Ask to change milk to oat milk.
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์šฐ์œ ๋ฅผ ๊ท€๋ฆฌ ์šฐ์œ ๋กœ ๋ฐ”๊ฟ” ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”. (Please change the milk to oat milk.)
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D. Ask for your food to be less spicy.
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๋œ ๋งต๊ฒŒ ํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”. (Please make it less spicy.)
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E. Ask to warm up your food.
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๋ฐ์›Œ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”. (Please warm it up.)
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F. Ask if they have a smaller size of clothing.
<summary>Answer
๋” ์ž‘์€ ์‚ฌ์ด์ฆˆ ์žˆ์–ด์š”? (Do you have a smaller size?)
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G. Ask for the dressing on the side.
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๋“œ๋ ˆ์‹ฑ์€ ๋”ฐ๋กœ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”. (Please give the dressing on the side.)
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H. Ask if they have it in a different color.
<summary>Answer
๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ƒ‰์ƒ ์žˆ์–ด์š”? (Do you have it in another color?)
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I. Ask to reduce the sweetness of your drink.
<summary>Answer
๋‹น๋„ ์ค„์—ฌ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”. (Please reduce the sweetness.)
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J. Ask for clothing to be tailored to fit perfectly.
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๋”ฑ ๋งž๊ฒŒ ์ˆ˜์„ ํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”. (Please tailor it to fit perfectly.)
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๐Ÿ“š
Expression Reference
Expression
Use
~๋นผ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”
Leave out / without
~๋„ฃ์–ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”
Add / put in
~์ค„์—ฌ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”
Reduce
~๋Š˜๋ ค ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”
Increase
~๋ฐ”๊ฟ” ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”
Change to ~
๋”ฐ๋กœ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”
On the side
๋ฐ์›Œ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”
Warm it up
๋œ ๋งต๊ฒŒ ํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”
Less spicy
๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์‚ฌ์ด์ฆˆ ์žˆ์–ด์š”?
Another size?
์ˆ˜์„ ํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”
Please tailor/alter
๐Ÿ’ก
Tip: Soften with ์ข€
Add ์ข€ before your request verb to soften the tone: ์„คํƒ• ์ข€ ๋นผ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š” (please leave out a bit of sugar), ์–ผ์Œ ์ข€ ์ค„์—ฌ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š” (please reduce the ice a little). ์ข€ makes requests sound more natural and slightly less direct โ€” it's the Korean equivalent of "could you just..."
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Want more reps?
Think of your usual cafรฉ order and customize it three ways using phrases from this lesson. Then think of a clothing purchase and practice asking for size, color, and alteration.
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๐Ÿ“ฆ Practice Hub โ€” Customizing Your Purchase


Exercise 1 โ€” Choose the Right Expression

A. You want to order a coffee without sugar.
(1) ์„คํƒ• ๋„ฃ์–ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š” (2) ์„คํƒ• ๋นผ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š” (3) ์„คํƒ• ๋ฐ”๊ฟ” ์ฃผ์„ธ์š” (4) ์„คํƒ• ์ค„์—ฌ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”
<summary>Answer
(2) ์„คํƒ• ๋นผ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š” โ€” "please leave out the sugar / without sugar." ~๋นผ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š” = omit entirely.
B. You want extra ice in your drink.
(1) ์–ผ์Œ ๋นผ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š” (2) ์–ผ์Œ ์ค„์—ฌ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š” (3) ์–ผ์Œ ๋งŽ์ด ๋„ฃ์–ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š” (4) ์–ผ์Œ ๋ฐ”๊ฟ” ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”
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(3) ์–ผ์Œ ๋งŽ์ด ๋„ฃ์–ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š” โ€” "please put in a lot of ice." ~๋„ฃ์–ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š” = add something.
C. You want to change regular milk to oat milk.
(1) ์šฐ์œ  ๋นผ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š” (2) ์šฐ์œ ๋ฅผ ๊ท€๋ฆฌ ์šฐ์œ ๋กœ ๋ฐ”๊ฟ” ์ฃผ์„ธ์š” (3) ์šฐ์œ  ์ค„์—ฌ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š” (4) ์šฐ์œ  ๋„ฃ์–ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”
<summary>Answer
(2) ์šฐ์œ ๋ฅผ ๊ท€๋ฆฌ ์šฐ์œ ๋กœ ๋ฐ”๊ฟ” ์ฃผ์„ธ์š” โ€” "please change the milk to oat milk." ~(์œผ)๋กœ ๋ฐ”๊ฟ” ์ฃผ์„ธ์š” = change to something else.
D. Your food is too spicy. You want it less spicy.
(1) ๋” ๋งต๊ฒŒ ํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š” (2) ๋งต๊ฒŒ ๋นผ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š” (3) ๋œ ๋งต๊ฒŒ ํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š” (4) ๋งต๊ฒŒ ๋„ฃ์–ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”
<summary>Answer
(3) ๋œ ๋งต๊ฒŒ ํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š” โ€” "please make it less spicy." ๋œ = less; ๋” = more.
E. You want to ask for the dressing on the side.
(1) ๋“œ๋ ˆ์‹ฑ ๋นผ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š” (2) ๋“œ๋ ˆ์‹ฑ ๋”ฐ๋กœ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š” (3) ๋“œ๋ ˆ์‹ฑ ์ค„์—ฌ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š” (4) ๋“œ๋ ˆ์‹ฑ ๋ฐ์›Œ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”
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(2) ๋“œ๋ ˆ์‹ฑ ๋”ฐ๋กœ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š” โ€” "please give the dressing separately / on the side."
F. Your food is cold and you want it warmed up.
(1) ์ฐจ๊ฐ‘๊ฒŒ ํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š” (2) ๋นผ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š” (3) ๋ฐ์›Œ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š” (4) ๋”ฐ๋กœ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”
<summary>Answer
(3) ๋ฐ์›Œ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š” โ€” "please warm it up."
G. You want to ask if they have a different color.
(1) ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์‚ฌ์ด์ฆˆ ์žˆ์–ด์š”? (2) ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ƒ‰์ƒ ์žˆ์–ด์š”? (3) ์ˆ˜์„ ํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š” (4) ์˜ฌ๋ ค ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”
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(2) ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ƒ‰์ƒ ์žˆ์–ด์š”? โ€” "do you have another color?"
H. The clothing is a bit big and you want to go up one size (smaller).
(1) ์‚ฌ์ด์ฆˆ ์˜ฌ๋ ค ์ฃผ์„ธ์š” (2) ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ƒ‰์ƒ ์žˆ์–ด์š”? (3) ํ•œ ์‚ฌ์ด์ฆˆ ์•„๋ž˜๋กœ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š” (4) ์ˆ˜์„ ํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”
<summary>Answer
(3) ํ•œ ์‚ฌ์ด์ฆˆ ์•„๋ž˜๋กœ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š” โ€” "please give me one size down." ์•„๋ž˜ = below/down; ์œ„ = above/up.
I. You want to soften your request with a filler word.
(1) ์„คํƒ• ์•„์ฃผ ๋นผ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š” (2) ์„คํƒ• ์ข€ ๋นผ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š” (3) ์„คํƒ• ๋งŽ์ด ๋นผ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š” (4) ์„คํƒ• ๊ผญ ๋นผ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”
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(2) ์„คํƒ• ์ข€ ๋นผ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š” โ€” ์ข€ ("a little / just") softens the request and makes it sound more polite and natural.
J. You want clothing to be tailored to fit perfectly.
(1) ์ˆ˜์„ ํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š” (2) ๋ฐ”๊ฟ” ์ฃผ์„ธ์š” (3) ๋นผ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š” (4) ์˜ฌ๋ ค ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”
<summary>Answer
(1) ์ˆ˜์„ ํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š” โ€” "please alter/tailor it." ๋”ฑ ๋งž๊ฒŒ ์ˆ˜์„ ํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š” = please tailor it to fit perfectly.
๐Ÿ“š
Quick Reference
Expression
Use
~๋นผ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”
Leave out / omit
~๋„ฃ์–ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”
Add / put in
~์ค„์—ฌ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”
Reduce
~๋Š˜๋ ค ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”
Increase
~๋ฐ”๊ฟ” ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”
Change to ~
๋”ฐ๋กœ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”
On the side
๋ฐ์›Œ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”
Warm up
๋œ ๋งต๊ฒŒ
Less spicy
๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ƒ‰์ƒ/์‚ฌ์ด์ฆˆ ์žˆ์–ด์š”?
Another color/size?
์ˆ˜์„ ํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”
Please tailor/alter
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Pitfall
Don't say ๋นผ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š” when you mean ์ค„์—ฌ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”. ~๋นผ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š” means "leave it out entirely" (no sugar at all), while ~์ค„์—ฌ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š” means "reduce it" (less sugar, not zero). Using the wrong one could result in getting something completely different from what you wanted.

Exercise 2 โ€” Korean โ†’ English Translation

A. ์„คํƒ• ๋นผ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.
<summary>Answer
Please leave out the sugar. / Without sugar, please.
B. ์–ผ์Œ ์ข€ ์ค„์—ฌ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.
<summary>Answer
Please reduce the ice a little.
C. ์šฐ์œ ๋ฅผ ๋‘์œ ๋กœ ๋ฐ”๊ฟ” ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.
<summary>Answer
Please change the milk to soy milk.
D. ๋œ ๋งต๊ฒŒ ํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.
<summary>Answer
Please make it less spicy.
E. ๋“œ๋ ˆ์‹ฑ์€ ๋”ฐ๋กœ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.
<summary>Answer
Please give the dressing on the side.
F. ๋ฐ์›Œ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.
<summary>Answer
Please warm it up.
G. ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ƒ‰์ƒ ์žˆ์–ด์š”?
<summary>Answer
Do you have another color?
H. ํ•œ ์‚ฌ์ด์ฆˆ ์•„๋ž˜๋กœ ๊ฐ€์ ธ๋‹ค ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.
<summary>Answer
Please bring me one size down.
I. ๋”ฑ ๋งž๊ฒŒ ์ˆ˜์„ ํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.
<summary>Answer
Please tailor it to fit perfectly.
J. ๋‹น๋„ ์ค„์—ฌ ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ณ ์š”, ์ƒท์€ ํ•˜๋‚˜ ๋” ๋„ฃ์–ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.
<summary>Answer
Please reduce the sweetness, and add one more shot please.
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Vocabulary Cheat Sheet
Word
Meaning
์„คํƒ•
Sugar
์–ผ์Œ
Ice
๋‹น๋„
Sweetness level
๋‘์œ 
Soy milk
๊ท€๋ฆฌ ์šฐ์œ 
Oat milk
๋“œ๋ ˆ์‹ฑ
(Salad) dressing
์ƒท
Shot (of espresso)
์ˆ˜์„ 
Alteration / tailoring
์ƒ‰์ƒ
Color
์‚ฌ์ด์ฆˆ
Size
๐Ÿ’ก
Grammar Tip
~์ฃผ์„ธ์š” is the polite request ending: ๋นผ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š” (please take out), ๋„ฃ์–ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š” (please put in), ๋ฐ”๊ฟ” ์ฃผ์„ธ์š” (please change). The verb before ์ฃผ์„ธ์š” is in the -์•„/์–ด connector form. To make it even more polite, add ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์–ด์š”? instead: ๋ฐ”๊ฟ” ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์–ด์š”? = "Could you please change it?"

Exercise 3 โ€” Complete the Sentence

A. ์„คํƒ• ___ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”. (leave out)
<summary>Answer
๋นผ โ€” ์„คํƒ• ๋นผ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.
B. ์–ผ์Œ ๋งŽ์ด ___ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”. (put in)
<summary>Answer
๋„ฃ์–ด โ€” ์–ผ์Œ ๋งŽ์ด ๋„ฃ์–ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.
C. ๋‹น๋„ ์ข€ ___ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”. (reduce)
<summary>Answer
์ค„์—ฌ โ€” ๋‹น๋„ ์ข€ ์ค„์—ฌ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.
D. ์šฐ์œ ๋ฅผ ๋‘์œ ๋กœ ___ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”. (change to)
<summary>Answer
๋ฐ”๊ฟ” โ€” ์šฐ์œ ๋ฅผ ๋‘์œ ๋กœ ๋ฐ”๊ฟ” ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.
E. ๋“œ๋ ˆ์‹ฑ์€ ___ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”. (on the side)
<summary>Answer
๋”ฐ๋กœ โ€” ๋“œ๋ ˆ์‹ฑ์€ ๋”ฐ๋กœ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.
F. ์ข€ ___ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”. ์ฐจ๊ฐ€์›Œ์š”. (warm up)
<summary>Answer
๋ฐ์›Œ โ€” ์ข€ ๋ฐ์›Œ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.
G. ๋œ ___ ๊ฒŒ ํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”. (spicy)
<summary>Answer
๋งต โ€” ๋œ ๋งต๊ฒŒ ํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.
H. ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ___ ์ƒ ์žˆ์–ด์š”? (color)
<summary>Answer
์ƒ‰ โ€” ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ƒ‰์ƒ ์žˆ์–ด์š”?
I. ํ•œ ์‚ฌ์ด์ฆˆ ___ ๋กœ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”. (down/below)
<summary>Answer
์•„๋ž˜ โ€” ํ•œ ์‚ฌ์ด์ฆˆ ์•„๋ž˜๋กœ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.
J. ๋”ฑ ๋งž๊ฒŒ ___ ํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”. (tailor/alter)
<summary>Answer
์ˆ˜์„  โ€” ๋”ฑ ๋งž๊ฒŒ ์ˆ˜์„ ํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.
๐Ÿ“š
Sentence Starters
Request
Form
Leave out
~๋นผ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”
Add
~๋„ฃ์–ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”
Reduce
~์ค„์—ฌ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”
Increase
~๋Š˜๋ ค ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”
Change to
~(์œผ)๋กœ ๋ฐ”๊ฟ” ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”
On the side
๋”ฐ๋กœ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”
Warm up
๋ฐ์›Œ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”
Make cold
์ฐจ๊ฐ‘๊ฒŒ ํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”
Less spicy
๋œ ๋งต๊ฒŒ ํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”
Tailor
์ˆ˜์„ ํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”
๐Ÿ’ก
Production Tip
Stack your customizations naturally with ~์ฃผ์‹œ๊ณ ์š”: ์„คํƒ• ๋นผ ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ณ ์š”, ์–ผ์Œ๋„ ์ข€ ์ค„์—ฌ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”. (Please leave out the sugar, and please reduce the ice a bit too.) The ~๊ณ ์š” connector links two requests smoothly without repeating ์ฃผ์„ธ์š” in the first clause.

Exercise 4 โ€” Dialogue Completion

A. A: ๋ญ ๋“œ๋ฆด๊นŒ์š”? / B: ์•„์ด์Šค ์•„๋ฉ”๋ฆฌ์นด๋…ธ์š”. ์„คํƒ• ___ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.
<summary>Answer
๋นผ โ€” ์„คํƒ• ๋นผ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”. (Without sugar please.)
B. A: ์–ผ์Œ์€์š”? / B: ์–ผ์Œ ์ข€ ___ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”. ๋งŽ์œผ๋ฉด ์‹ซ์–ด์„œ์š”.
<summary>Answer
์ค„์—ฌ โ€” ์–ผ์Œ ์ข€ ์ค„์—ฌ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”. (Please reduce the ice a bit. I don't like too much.)
C. A: ์šฐ์œ  ์ข…๋ฅ˜ ๋ฐ”๊ฟ” ๋“œ๋ฆด ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”. / B: ๊ทธ๋Ÿผ ๋‘์œ ๋กœ ___ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.
<summary>Answer
๋ฐ”๊ฟ” โ€” ๋‘์œ ๋กœ ๋ฐ”๊ฟ” ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”. (Please change it to soy milk.)
D. A: ๋งต๊ธฐ ์กฐ์ ˆ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. / B: ๋œ ___ ๊ฒŒ ํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”. ์ข€ ์•ฝํ•˜๊ฒŒ์š”.
<summary>Answer
๋งต โ€” ๋œ ๋งต๊ฒŒ ํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”. (Please make it less spicy.)
E. A: ์ƒ๋Ÿฌ๋“œ ๋“œ๋ ˆ์‹ฑ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ํ•ด ๋“œ๋ฆด๊นŒ์š”? / B: ___ ๋กœ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.
<summary>Answer
๋”ฐ โ€” ๋”ฐ๋กœ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”. (On the side please.)
F. A: ์‹์–ด์„œ ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์œผ์„ธ์š”? / B: ์•„, ___ ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์–ด์š”?
<summary>Answer
๋ฐ์›Œ โ€” ๋ฐ์›Œ ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์–ด์š”? (Could you please warm it up?)
G. A: ์‚ฌ์ด์ฆˆ ์–ด๋– ์„ธ์š”? / B: ์ข€ ํฐ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„์š”. ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ___ ์žˆ์–ด์š”?
<summary>Answer
์‚ฌ์ด์ฆˆ โ€” ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์‚ฌ์ด์ฆˆ ์žˆ์–ด์š”? (Do you have another size?)
H. A: ์ƒ‰์ƒ์€์š”? / B: ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ___ ์žˆ์–ด์š”? ๊ฒ€์ • ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉด ์ข‹๊ฒ ์–ด์š”.
<summary>Answer
์ƒ‰์ƒ โ€” ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ƒ‰์ƒ ์žˆ์–ด์š”? (Do you have another color? I'd like black if possible.)
I. A: ์ˆ˜์„  ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. / B: ๊ทธ๋Ÿผ ๋”ฑ ๋งž๊ฒŒ ___ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.
<summary>Answer
์ˆ˜์„ ํ•ด โ€” ๋”ฑ ๋งž๊ฒŒ ์ˆ˜์„ ํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”. (Please tailor it to fit perfectly.)
J. A: ๋‹ค ๋์–ด์š”? / B: ๋„ค. ์„คํƒ• ๋นผ ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ณ ์š”, ์ƒท๋„ ํ•˜๋‚˜ ___ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.
<summary>Answer
๋Š˜๋ ค โ€” ์ƒท๋„ ํ•˜๋‚˜ ๋Š˜๋ ค ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”. (And please add one more shot.)
๐Ÿ“š
Useful Phrases
Phrase
Meaning
์„คํƒ• ๋นผ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”
Without sugar
์–ผ์Œ ์ค„์—ฌ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”
Less ice
๋‘์œ ๋กœ ๋ฐ”๊ฟ” ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”
Change to soy milk
๋œ ๋งต๊ฒŒ ํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”
Less spicy
๋”ฐ๋กœ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”
On the side
๋ฐ์›Œ ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์–ด์š”?
Could you warm it?
๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์‚ฌ์ด์ฆˆ ์žˆ์–ด์š”?
Another size?
๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ƒ‰์ƒ ์žˆ์–ด์š”?
Another color?
๋”ฑ ๋งž๊ฒŒ ์ˆ˜์„ ํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”
Tailor to fit perfectly
~์ฃผ์‹œ๊ณ ์š”
And please also ~
๐Ÿ’ก
Conversation Tip
Always end your customization request with ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ด์š” or ๊ณ ๋ง™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค โ€” Koreans appreciate brief acknowledgment after a staff member helps with a request. And if your request is unusual, a quick ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์œผ๋ฉด์š” ("if it's okay") before the request keeps things light and considerate.

Exercise 5 โ€” Free Speaking Practice

A. Order your ideal coffee with at least two customizations.
<summary>Sample Answer
์•„์ด์Šค ๋ผ๋–ผ ํ•œ ์ž” ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”. ์„คํƒ• ๋นผ ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ณ ์š”, ์šฐ์œ ๋ฅผ ๊ท€๋ฆฌ ์šฐ์œ ๋กœ ๋ฐ”๊ฟ” ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”. ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ด์š”. (One iced latte please. Without sugar, and please change the milk to oat milk. Thank you.)
B. Ask for food adjustments at a Korean restaurant.
<summary>Sample Answer
๋œ ๋งต๊ฒŒ ํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์†Œ์Šค๋Š” ๋”ฐ๋กœ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”. ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (Please make it less spicy. And please give the sauce on the side. Thank you.)
C. Ask about sizing and color at a clothing store.
<summary>Sample Answer
์ด ์žฌํ‚ท ๋งˆ์Œ์— ๋“œ๋Š”๋ฐ์š”. ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์‚ฌ์ด์ฆˆ ์žˆ์–ด์š”? ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ƒ‰์ƒ๋„ ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉด ๋ณด์—ฌ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”. (I like this jacket. Do you have another size? And if you have another color, please show me too.)
D. Request a clothing alteration.
<summary>Sample Answer
์ด ๋ฐ”์ง€ ์‚ด ๊ฑด๋ฐ์š”, ์ข€ ๊ธธ์–ด์š”. ๋”ฑ ๋งž๊ฒŒ ์ˆ˜์„ ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”? (I'd like to buy these pants, but they're a bit long. Can you tailor them to fit perfectly?)
E. Stack three customizations using ~์ฃผ์‹œ๊ณ ์š”.
<summary>Sample Answer
์•„์ด์Šค ์•„๋ฉ”๋ฆฌ์นด๋…ธ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”. ์„คํƒ• ๋นผ ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ณ ์š”, ์–ผ์Œ๋„ ์ข€ ์ค„์—ฌ ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ณ ์š”, ์ƒท ํ•˜๋‚˜ ๋” ๋„ฃ์–ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”. (Iced Americano please. Without sugar, please reduce the ice a bit, and add one more shot.)
๐Ÿ“š
Sentence Starters
Starter
Use
~ ๋นผ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”
Leave out
~ ๋„ฃ์–ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”
Add
~ ์ค„์—ฌ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”
Reduce
~ ๋Š˜๋ ค ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”
Increase
~๋กœ ๋ฐ”๊ฟ” ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”
Change to
๋”ฐ๋กœ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”
On the side
๋ฐ์›Œ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”
Warm up
๋œ ๋งต๊ฒŒ ํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”
Less spicy
๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ƒ‰์ƒ/์‚ฌ์ด์ฆˆ?
Another color/size?
์ˆ˜์„ ํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”
Tailor/alter
๐Ÿ’ก
Speaking Challenge
Roleplay a full cafรฉ order: open with your drink, stack at least 3 customizations using ~์ฃผ์‹œ๊ณ ์š”, then close politely. Then roleplay a clothing shop: ask about size, color, and request an alteration. Keep each under 30 seconds โ€” this is practical Korean you'll use on your very first visit.
๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ์›ํ•˜๋Š” ๋Œ€๋กœ ์ฃผ๋ฌธํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์•ผ ์ง„์งœ ํŽธํ•ด์š”! โœจ
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