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Vocab: Finding Directions

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๊ธธ์น˜ / ํ—ค๋งค๋‹ค / ์ง€๋ฆ„๊ธธ / ์ •ํ™•ํžˆ / ๊ฐ€๊น๋‹ค
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๐ŸŽฏ
TL;DR ๐Ÿฆ„
  • ๐Ÿ—บ๏ธ ๊ธธ์น˜ = someone with no sense of direction โ€” a word every Korean learner immediately relates to
  • ๐ŸŒ€ ํ—ค๋งค๋‹ค = to wander/get lost (the action); ์ง€๋ฆ„๊ธธ = the shortcut you're desperately hoping for
  • ๐Ÿ“ ์ •ํ™•ํžˆ + ๊ฐ€๊น๋‹ค = the two words that save the day when asking for directions
๐Ÿ”Š
๐ŸŽง Iru Helper Note โ€” Head to the Korean Helper Widgets and hear today's words at natural speed. ๊ธธ์น˜์˜ˆ์š” is a perfect first sentence to practice โ€” every Korean speaker immediately sympathises. ๐Ÿ—บ๏ธ

๐ŸŒˆ The Big Picture

Getting lost and finding your way in Korean requires more than knowing left and right. These five words give you the vocabulary for the full experience: admitting you have no sense of direction (๊ธธ์น˜), describing when you're wandering lost (ํ—ค๋งค๋‹ค), asking about shortcuts (์ง€๋ฆ„๊ธธ), getting precise answers (์ •ํ™•ํžˆ), and knowing whether something is within reach (๊ฐ€๊น๋‹ค).
These are deeply natural, frequently used words โ€” you'll hear ๊ธธ์น˜์˜ˆ์š” in self-deprecating conversation, ํ—ค๋งค๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์š” when asking for help, and ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์„œ ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์›Œ์š”? constantly when navigating.

๐ŸŽจ The Core Direction-Finding Family

1. ๊ธธ์น˜ โ€” someone with no sense of direction ๐Ÿ—บ๏ธ
A fun, commonly used noun. ๊ธธ์น˜์˜ˆ์š” = I have no sense of direction. ์‹ฌํ•œ ๊ธธ์น˜ = a severe case of directional hopelessness. Always used self-deprecatingly or affectionately about others.
2. ํ—ค๋งค๋‹ค โ€” to wander, to get lost, to struggle to find ๐ŸŒ€
Used when someone is going around in circles trying to find something. ๊ธธ์„ ํ—ค๋งค๋‹ค = to wander lost. ์˜ค๋ž˜ ํ—ค๋งธ์–ด์š” = I wandered around for a long time.
3. ์ง€๋ฆ„๊ธธ โ€” shortcut ๐Ÿ›ค๏ธ
์ง€๋ฆ„ = shortcut/direct path, ๊ธธ = road/way. ์ง€๋ฆ„๊ธธ์ด ์žˆ์–ด์š”? = Is there a shortcut? ์ง€๋ฆ„๊ธธ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋‹ค = to go via the shortcut.
4. ์ •ํ™•ํžˆ โ€” exactly, precisely, accurately ๐Ÿ“
An adverb meaning "with precision." ์ •ํ™•ํžˆ ์–ด๋””์˜ˆ์š”? = Where exactly is it? ์ •ํ™•ํžˆ ๋งํ•˜๋ฉด = to be precise / strictly speaking.
5. ๊ฐ€๊น๋‹ค โ€” to be close/near ๐Ÿ“
A ใ…‚-irregular adjective. ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์„œ ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์›Œ์š”? = Is it close from here? ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์šด ๊ณณ = a nearby place. Opposite: ๋ฉ€๋‹ค = to be far.

๐Ÿ› ๏ธ How They Work in a Sentence

์ €๋Š” ์‹ฌํ•œ ๊ธธ์น˜๋ผ์„œ ํ•ญ์ƒ ํ—ค๋งค์š”.
I have a terrible sense of direction so I always get lost. ๐Ÿ—บ๏ธ๐ŸŒ€
โ€” ์‹ฌํ•œ = severe; -๋ผ์„œ = because (after a noun)
์ •ํ™•ํžˆ ์–ด๋””์— ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€ ๋งํ•ด ์ค„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”?
Can you tell me exactly where it is? ๐Ÿ“
โ€” -๋Š”์ง€ = whether/where (indirect question); ๋งํ•ด ์ค„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”? = can you tell me?
์ง€๋ฆ„๊ธธ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋ฉด ์—ญ์—์„œ ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์›Œ์š”.
If you go via the shortcut it's close from the station. ๐Ÿ›ค๏ธ๐Ÿ“
โ€” -๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋‹ค = to go via/by; ์—ญ์—์„œ = from the station

๐Ÿงฉ General Formation Rule

  • ๊ธธ์น˜ โ†’ noun: ๊ธธ์น˜์˜ˆ์š” / ๊ธธ์น˜์ธ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ / ์‹ฌํ•œ ๊ธธ์น˜
  • ํ—ค๋งค๋‹ค โ†’ regular verb: ํ—ค๋งค์š” / ํ—ค๋งธ์–ด์š” / ํ—ค๋งค๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์š” / ํ—ค๋งค๋‹ค๊ฐ€
  • ์ง€๋ฆ„๊ธธ โ†’ noun: ์ง€๋ฆ„๊ธธ์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค / ์ง€๋ฆ„๊ธธ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋‹ค / ์ง€๋ฆ„๊ธธ์„ ์•Œ๋‹ค
  • ์ •ํ™•ํžˆ โ†’ adverb: ์ •ํ™•ํžˆ ์•Œ๋‹ค / ์ •ํ™•ํžˆ ๋งํ•˜๋‹ค / ์ •ํ™•ํžˆ ์–ด๋””?
  • ๊ฐ€๊น๋‹ค โ†’ ใ…‚-irregular: ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์›Œ์š” / ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์› ์–ด์š” / ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์šด / ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์›Œ์„œ
๐Ÿšจ ใ…‚-irregular: ๊ฐ€๊น๋‹ค โ†’ ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์›Œ์š” / ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์šด / ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์›Œ์„œ (ใ…‚ drops before vowels)

๐Ÿ“š Cross-check note

All vocabulary and conjugations cross-checked against korean.go.kr โœ…

๐Ÿชž Synonym Alert

  • ํ—ค๋งค๋‹ค โ‰ˆ ๊ธธ์„ ์žƒ๋‹ค โ€” ๊ธธ์„ ์žƒ๋‹ค = to lose the way (more definitive, completely lost); ํ—ค๋งค๋‹ค = to wander/struggle to find (in the process of being lost)
  • ์ง€๋ฆ„๊ธธ โ‰ˆ ๋‹จ์ถ• ๊ฒฝ๋กœ โ€” ๋‹จ์ถ• ๊ฒฝ๋กœ = shortened route (navigation app language); ์ง€๋ฆ„๊ธธ = shortcut (everyday conversation)
  • ์ •ํ™•ํžˆ โ‰ˆ ๋”ฑ โ€” ๋”ฑ = exactly (more colloquial/punchy); ์ •ํ™•ํžˆ = precisely (slightly more formal)
  • ๊ฐ€๊น๋‹ค โ‰ˆ ๊ทผ์ฒ˜์— ์žˆ๋‹ค โ€” ๊ทผ์ฒ˜์— ์žˆ๋‹ค = to be in the vicinity of; ๊ฐ€๊น๋‹ค = to be close/near (distance adjective)

โš ๏ธ Pitfalls to Dodge

โŒ ๊ฐ€๊น์–ด์š” โ†’ โœ… ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์›Œ์š” โ€” ใ…‚-irregular: ๊ฐ€๊น + ์•„์š” โ†’ ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์›Œ์š”. (ใ…‚ drops, ์šฐ + ์•„ = ์›Œ)
โŒ ๊ธธ์น˜๋ฅผ ํ•ด์š” โ†’ โœ… ๊ธธ์น˜์˜ˆ์š” โ€” ๊ธธ์น˜ is a noun; use ์ด๋‹ค/์˜ˆ์š”, not ํ•˜๋‹ค.
โŒ ์ง€๋ฆ„๊ธธ์„ ํ•ด์š” โ†’ โœ… ์ง€๋ฆ„๊ธธ๋กœ ๊ฐ€์š” โ€” ์ง€๋ฆ„๊ธธ needs ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋‹ค (to go via). You travel via a shortcut, you don't "do" one.
โŒ ์ •ํ™•ํžˆ์˜ˆ์š” (as a predicate) โ†’ โœ… ์ •ํ™•ํžˆ ๋งํ•˜๋ฉด / ์ •ํ™•ํžˆ ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์˜ˆ์š” โ€” ์ •ํ™•ํžˆ is an adverb; it modifies verbs and other adjectives, not stands alone.
์ €๋Š” ๊ธธ์น˜์ง€๋งŒ ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์•„์š” โ€” ์Šค๋งˆํŠธํฐ์ด ์žˆ์œผ๋‹ˆ๊นŒ์š”! ๐Ÿ—บ๏ธ๐Ÿ˜„ ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ด์ œ ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด๋กœ ๊ธธ๋„ ๋ฌผ์–ด๋ณผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”. ๐Ÿ“
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Instructions: Fill in each blank with the correct word or form. Watch for ใ…‚-irregular forms of ๊ฐ€๊น๋‹ค!
1. ์ €๋Š” ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋ผ์„œ ์ง€๋„ ์•ฑ ์—†์ด๋Š” ๋ชป ๋‹ค๋…€์š”.
I have no sense of direction so I can't get around without a map app. ๐Ÿ—บ๏ธ
Answer
๊ธธ์น˜ โ†’ ๊ธธ์น˜๋ผ์„œ. ๊ธธ์น˜ + -๋ผ์„œ (because it is, noun). ์ง€๋„ ์•ฑ = map app.
2. 30๋ถ„์ด๋‚˜ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ๊ฒจ์šฐ ์ฐพ์•˜์–ด์š”.
After wandering for as long as 30 minutes I barely found it. ๐ŸŒ€
Answer
ํ—ค๋งค โ†’ ํ—ค๋งค๋‹ค๊ฐ€. ํ—ค๋งค๋‹ค + -๋‹ค๊ฐ€ = while doing (and then). -์ด๋‚˜ = as long as/as much as.
3. ํ˜น์‹œ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด ์žˆ์–ด์š”? ๋นจ๋ฆฌ ๊ฐ€์•ผ ํ•ด์„œ์š”.
Is there a shortcut by any chance? I need to go quickly. ๐Ÿ›ค๏ธ
Answer
์ง€๋ฆ„๊ธธ โ†’ ์ง€๋ฆ„๊ธธ์ด ์žˆ์–ด์š”? ํ˜น์‹œ = by any chance. -์•„/์–ด์„œ์š” = because (brief reason).
4. ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์„œ ์—ญ๊นŒ์ง€ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํžˆ ๋ช‡ ๋ถ„์ด์—์š”?
Exactly how many minutes is it from here to the station? ๐Ÿ“
Answer
์ •ํ™• โ†’ ์ •ํ™•ํžˆ ๋ช‡ ๋ถ„์ด์—์š”? ์ •ํ™•ํžˆ = exactly. ์—ญ๊นŒ์ง€ = to the station.
5. ํŽธ์˜์ ์ด ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์„œ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์›Œ์š”?
Is the convenience store close from here? ๐Ÿ“
Answer
๊ฐ€๊นŒ โ†’ ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์›Œ์š”? ใ…‚-irregular: ๊ฐ€๊น๋‹ค + -์•„์š” = ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์›Œ์š”. ํŽธ์˜์  = convenience store.
6. ๊ธธ์„ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์„œ ๋„์™€์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”?
I'm wandering lost โ€” can you help me? ๐ŸŒ€
Answer
ํ—ค๋งค โ†’ ํ—ค๋งค๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์š”. -๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค = ongoing state. ๋„์™€์ฃผ์‹œ๋‹ค = to help (honorific).
7. ๊ทธ ์นดํŽ˜๋Š” ์ง€ํ•˜์ฒ ์—ญ์—์„œ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์šด ๊ณณ์— ์žˆ์–ด์š”.
That cafรฉ is in a place close to the subway station. ๐Ÿ“
Answer
๊ฐ€๊นŒ โ†’ ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์šด ๊ณณ. ใ…‚-irregular modifier: ๊ฐ€๊น๋‹ค โ†’ ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์šด + noun.
8. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋ฉด 10๋ถ„ ์•ˆ์— ๋„์ฐฉํ•ด์š”.
If you go via the shortcut you'll arrive within 10 minutes. ๐Ÿ›ค๏ธ
Answer
์ง€๋ฆ„๊ธธ โ†’ ์ง€๋ฆ„๊ธธ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋ฉด. ์ง€๋ฆ„๊ธธ + -๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋‹ค = to go via the shortcut. ๋„์ฐฉํ•˜๋‹ค = to arrive.
9. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํžˆ ๋งํ•˜๋ฉด ์™ผ์ชฝ์œผ๋กœ 100m ๊ฐ€๋ฉด ๋ผ์š”.
To be precise, you just need to go 100m to the left. ๐Ÿ“
Answer
์ •ํ™• โ†’ ์ •ํ™•ํžˆ ๋งํ•˜๋ฉด = to be precise / strictly speaking. ์™ผ์ชฝ์œผ๋กœ = to the left.
10. ์ €๋Š” ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋ผ์„œ ํ•ญ์ƒ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์š”.
Because I have no sense of direction I always wander around lost. ๐Ÿ—บ๏ธ๐ŸŒ€
Answer
๊ธธ์น˜ / ํ—ค๋งค โ†’ ๊ธธ์น˜๋ผ์„œ ํ•ญ์ƒ ํ—ค๋งค์š”. Both key words in one sentence.
๐Ÿ“š
Vocabulary Box
  • ๊ธธ์น˜ โ†’ person with no sense of direction
  • ์‹ฌํ•œ ๊ธธ์น˜ โ†’ severe lack of direction sense
  • ํ—ค๋งค๋‹ค โ†’ to wander, get lost
  • ํ—ค๋งค๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค โ†’ is wandering (ongoing)
  • ์ง€๋ฆ„๊ธธ โ†’ shortcut
  • ์ง€๋ฆ„๊ธธ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋‹ค โ†’ to go via the shortcut
  • ์ •ํ™•ํžˆ โ†’ exactly, precisely
  • ๊ฐ€๊น๋‹ค โ†’ to be close (ใ…‚-irregular)
  • ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์›Œ์š” โ†’ it's close (NOT ๊ฐ€๊น์–ด์š”)
  • ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์šด โ†’ nearby (modifier)
  • -๋‹ค๊ฐ€ โ†’ while doing (and then)
  • -์ด๋‚˜ โ†’ as long/much as
Memory tips ๐Ÿ’ก
  • ๊ธธ์น˜ = ๊ธธ (road) + ์น˜ (suffix for bad at something) = bad at roads
  • ํ—ค๋งค๋‹ค = sounds like wandering โ€” meandering sound
  • ์ง€๋ฆ„๊ธธ = ์ง€๋ฆ„ (diameter/direct) + ๊ธธ (road) = direct road

๐Ÿš€
Want more reps? Visit the Practice Hub when you're ready! ๐Ÿš€
๐Ÿ“ฆ
๐ŸŽฏ Practice Hub โ€” Vocab: Finding Directions
๊ธธ ์ฐพ๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘! ๐Ÿงญ This Practice Hub drills all five words โ€” ๊ธธ์น˜, ํ—ค๋งค๋‹ค, ์ง€๋ฆ„๊ธธ, ์ •ํ™•ํžˆ, ๊ฐ€๊น๋‹ค โ€” across five themed exercises covering real direction-asking and navigation situations. By the end, even a ๊ธธ์น˜ will know how to navigate in Korean. ๐Ÿ—บ๏ธ
๐Ÿ”Š Audio reminder: Use the Korean Helper Widgets to hear any sentence. Pay attention to ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์›Œ์š” vs ๋ฉ€์–ด์š” โ€” the ใ…‚-irregular form is very natural once you hear it.
๐Ÿ“ Instructions: Fill in each blank with the correct word or form. Watch for ใ…‚-irregular forms of ๊ฐ€๊น๋‹ค.

Exercise 1 โ€” Admitting You're Lost ๐Ÿ—บ๏ธ

A. ์ € ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์˜ˆ์š”. ์–ด๋””๋“  ํ—ค๋งฌ ๋•Œ๊ฐ€ ๋งŽ์•„์š”.
I have no sense of direction. I often wander around lost wherever I go. ๐Ÿ—บ๏ธ
Answer
๊ธธ์น˜ โ†’ ๊ธธ์น˜์˜ˆ์š”. ์–ด๋””๋“  = wherever. ํ—ค๋งฌ ๋•Œ๊ฐ€ ๋งŽ๋‹ค = often wander around.
B. ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์‹ฌํ•œ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋ผ์„œ ์ง€๋„๋„ ๋ชป ์ฝ์–ด์š”.
My sense of direction is so terrible I can't even read a map. ๐Ÿ—บ๏ธ
Answer
๊ธธ์น˜ โ†’ ์‹ฌํ•œ ๊ธธ์น˜๋ผ์„œ. ์‹ฌํ•˜๋‹ค = severe. ์ง€๋„๋„ ๋ชป ์ฝ๋‹ค = can't even read a map.
C. ํ•œ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด๋‚˜ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ๊ฒจ์šฐ ๋„์ฐฉํ–ˆ์–ด์š”.
After wandering for a whole hour I barely arrived. ๐ŸŒ€
Answer
ํ—ค๋งค โ†’ ํ—ค๋งค๋‹ค๊ฐ€. -๋‹ค๊ฐ€ = while doing (and then something happened). ๊ฒจ์šฐ = barely.
D. ์ฒ˜์Œ ๊ฐ€๋Š” ๊ณณ์€ ํ•ญ์ƒ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์–ด์š”.
I always wander around when going to a new place for the first time. ๐ŸŒ€
Answer
ํ—ค๋งค โ†’ ํ—ค๋งค์š”. ์ฒ˜์Œ ๊ฐ€๋Š” ๊ณณ = a place going to for the first time. ํ•ญ์ƒ = always.
E. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋ผ๊ณ  ํ•˜๋ฉด ์นœ๊ตฌ๋“ค์ด ์›ƒ์–ด์š”.
When I say I have no sense of direction my friends laugh. ๐Ÿ—บ๏ธ
Answer
๊ธธ์น˜ โ†’ ๊ธธ์น˜๋ผ๊ณ  ํ•˜๋ฉด. -๋ผ๊ณ  ํ•˜๋‹ค = to say that. -๋ฉด = when/if.
F. 30๋ถ„ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ์ง€๋‚˜๊ฐ€๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์—๊ฒŒ ๋ฌผ์–ด๋ดค์–ด์š”.
After wandering for 30 minutes I asked a passerby. ๐ŸŒ€
Answer
ํ—ค๋งค โ†’ ํ—ค๋งค๋‹ค๊ฐ€. ์ง€๋‚˜๊ฐ€๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ = passerby. ๋ฌผ์–ด๋ณด๋‹ค = to ask.
G. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ ๋ชจ์•„ ๋†“์€ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„. ๋‘˜ ๋‹ค ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ž–์•„.
Seems like we gathered all the directionally challenged people. We're both hopeless. ๐Ÿ—บ๏ธ
Answer
๊ธธ์น˜ / ๊ธธ์น˜ โ†’ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๊ธธ์น˜ ๋ชจ์•„ ๋†“์€ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„. ๋‘˜ ๋‹ค ๊ธธ์น˜์ž–์•„. ๋‘˜ ๋‹ค = both. -์ž–์•„ = you know / as you can see.
H. ์ง€๋„ ์•ฑ๋„ ์—†์ด๋Š” ๊ผญ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๊ณ  ๋ง์•„์š”.
Without a map app I always end up wandering around. ๐ŸŒ€
Answer
ํ—ค๋งค โ†’ ํ—ค๋งค๊ณ  ๋ง์•„์š”. -๊ณ  ๋ง๋‹ค = end up doing (often unintentionally). ๊ผญ = always/without fail.
I. ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๋™๋„ค์—์„œ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋Š” ๊ฒŒ ์‹ซ์ง€ ์•Š์•„์š”.
I don't mind wandering around in a new neighbourhood. ๐ŸŒ€
Answer
ํ—ค๋งค โ†’ ํ—ค๋งค๋Š” ๊ฒŒ ์‹ซ์ง€ ์•Š์•„์š”. ํ—ค๋งค๋‹ค nominalised = ํ—ค๋งค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ. -์ง€ ์•Š๋‹ค = not. ์‹ซ๋‹ค = to dislike.
J. ์ € ๊ฐ™์€ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์—๊ฒŒ๋Š” ์Šค๋งˆํŠธํฐ์ด ์ตœ๊ณ ์˜ˆ์š”.
For a directionally challenged person like me, smartphones are the best. ๐Ÿ—บ๏ธ
Answer
๊ธธ์น˜ โ†’ ์ € ๊ฐ™์€ ๊ธธ์น˜์—๊ฒŒ๋Š”. ์ € ๊ฐ™์€ = someone like me. -์—๊ฒŒ๋Š” = for (someone).
๐Ÿ“š
Vocabulary Box
  • ์‹ฌํ•œ ๊ธธ์น˜ โ†’ severe directional hopelessness
  • -๋‹ค๊ฐ€ โ†’ while doing (and then)
  • ๊ฒจ์šฐ โ†’ barely, just managed to
  • ์ง€๋‚˜๊ฐ€๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ โ†’ passerby
  • -๊ณ  ๋ง๋‹ค โ†’ end up doing
  • ๊ผญ โ†’ always / without fail
  • -์ž–์•„ โ†’ you know / as you can see
  • ๋‘˜ ๋‹ค โ†’ both
  • ์ง€๋„ ์•ฑ โ†’ map app
Tip ๐Ÿ’ก ๊ธธ์น˜์˜ˆ์š” = the perfect self-deprecating opener when asking for directions. Koreans respond warmly to it โ€” it's relatable and non-threatening.

Exercise 2 โ€” Asking for Directions ๐Ÿ“

A. ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์„œ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์›Œ์š”? ๊ฑธ์–ด์„œ ๊ฐˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”?
Is it close from here? Can I walk there? ๐Ÿ“
Answer
๊ฐ€๊นŒ โ†’ ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์›Œ์š”? ใ…‚-irregular. ๊ฑธ์–ด์„œ ๊ฐˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค = can walk there.
B. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํžˆ ์–ด๋””์— ์žˆ์–ด์š”? ์ง€๋„์—์„œ ๋ชป ์ฐพ๊ฒ ์–ด์š”.
Exactly where is it? I can't find it on the map. ๐Ÿ“
Answer
์ •ํ™• โ†’ ์ •ํ™•ํžˆ ์–ด๋””์— ์žˆ์–ด์š”? ๋ชป ์ฐพ๊ฒ ๋‹ค = can't find it (inability).
C. ํ˜น์‹œ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด ์žˆ์–ด์š”? ์ข€ ๋นจ๋ฆฌ ๊ฐ€์•ผ ํ•ด์„œ์š”.
Is there a shortcut by any chance? I need to go a bit quickly. ๐Ÿ›ค๏ธ
Answer
์ง€๋ฆ„๊ธธ โ†’ ์ง€๋ฆ„๊ธธ์ด ์žˆ์–ด์š”? ํ˜น์‹œ = by any chance. ๋นจ๋ฆฌ ๊ฐ€์•ผ ํ•ด์„œ์š” = because I need to go quickly.
D. ์ง€ํ•˜์ฒ ์—ญ์—์„œ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์šด ์นดํŽ˜๋ฅผ ์ถ”์ฒœํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.
Please recommend a cafรฉ close to the subway station. ๐Ÿ“
Answer
๊ฐ€๊นŒ โ†’ ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์šด ์นดํŽ˜. ใ…‚-irregular modifier: ๊ฐ€๊น๋‹ค โ†’ ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์šด + noun.
E. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋ฉด ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ๊ฑธ๋ ค์š”?
How long does it take if you go via the shortcut? ๐Ÿ›ค๏ธ
Answer
์ง€๋ฆ„๊ธธ โ†’ ์ง€๋ฆ„๊ธธ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋ฉด. -๋กœ = via/by (means/route). ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ๊ฑธ๋ฆฌ๋‹ค = how long does it take.
F. ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์„œ ๋ฒ„์Šค ์ •๋ฅ˜์žฅ๊นŒ์ง€ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํžˆ ๋ช‡ ๋ฏธํ„ฐ์˜ˆ์š”?
Exactly how many metres is it from here to the bus stop? ๐Ÿ“
Answer
์ •ํ™• โ†’ ์ •ํ™•ํžˆ ๋ช‡ ๋ฏธํ„ฐ์˜ˆ์š”? ๋ฒ„์Šค ์ •๋ฅ˜์žฅ = bus stop. ๋ฏธํ„ฐ = metre.
G. ๊ฑท๊ธฐ์—๋Š” ์กฐ๊ธˆ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์›Œ์„œ ํƒ์‹œ๋ฅผ ํƒ€๋Š” ๊ฒŒ ์ข‹์•„์š”.
It's a bit far to walk so it's better to take a taxi. ๐Ÿ“
Answer
๋ฉ€์–ด โ†’ ๋ฉ€์–ด์„œ. ๋ฉ€๋‹ค (opposite of ๊ฐ€๊น๋‹ค) is also ใ…‚-irregular: ๋ฉ€ + ์–ด์„œ = ๋ฉ€์–ด์„œ. ํƒ์‹œ๋ฅผ ํƒ€๋‹ค = to take a taxi.
H. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํžˆ ๋งํ•˜๋ฉด ์ด ๊ฑด๋ฌผ ๋’คํŽธ์œผ๋กœ ๋Œ์•„๊ฐ€์•ผ ํ•ด์š”.
To be precise, you need to go around to the back of this building. ๐Ÿ“
Answer
์ •ํ™• โ†’ ์ •ํ™•ํžˆ ๋งํ•˜๋ฉด = to be precise. ๋’คํŽธ = the back side. ๋Œ์•„๊ฐ€๋‹ค = to go around.
I. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์›Œ์„œ ๊ธˆ๋ฐฉ ์˜ฌ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”.
It's close so you can come quickly. ๐Ÿ“
Answer
๊ฐ€๊นŒ โ†’ ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์›Œ์„œ. -์•„/์–ด์„œ causal. ๊ธˆ๋ฐฉ = quickly/right away.
J. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋ฅผ ์•Œ๋ฉด 5๋ถ„์ด๋ฉด ๋ผ์š”. ๋ชฐ๋ผ๋„ 10๋ถ„์ด์—์š”.
If you know the shortcut it's 5 minutes. Even if you don't, it's 10 minutes. ๐Ÿ›ค๏ธ
Answer
์ง€๋ฆ„๊ธธ โ†’ ์ง€๋ฆ„๊ธธ์„ ์•Œ๋ฉด / ๋ชฐ๋ผ๋„. ์•Œ๋‹ค = to know. -์•„๋„/๋ชฐ๋ผ๋„ = even if not knowing.
๐Ÿ“š
Vocabulary Box
  • ๊ฑธ์–ด์„œ ๊ฐˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค โ†’ can walk there
  • ๋ชป ์ฐพ๊ฒ ๋‹ค โ†’ can't find it
  • ๋ฒ„์Šค ์ •๋ฅ˜์žฅ โ†’ bus stop
  • ๋’คํŽธ โ†’ the back side
  • ๋Œ์•„๊ฐ€๋‹ค โ†’ to go around
  • ๊ธˆ๋ฐฉ โ†’ quickly, right away
  • ๋ฉ€๋‹ค โ†’ to be far (also ใ…‚-irregular: ๋ฉ€์–ด์š”)
  • ๋ฏธํ„ฐ โ†’ metre
  • -๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋‹ค โ†’ to go via/by
Tip ๐Ÿ’ก ใ…‚-irregular pair: ๊ฐ€๊น๋‹ค โ†’ ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์›Œ์š” / ๋ฉ€๋‹ค โ†’ ๋ฉ€์–ด์š”. Both key direction words follow the same pattern.

Exercise 3 โ€” Navigation Situations ๐Ÿงญ

A. ๊ธธ์„ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ ๋„์™€์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”?
I'm wandering around lost โ€” can you help me? ๐ŸŒ€
Answer
ํ—ค๋งค โ†’ ํ—ค๋งค๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์š”. -๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค = ongoing. ๋„์™€์ฃผ์‹œ๋‹ค = to help (honorific).
B. ์—ฌ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํžˆ ์–ด๋””์˜ˆ์š”?
Where exactly is this place? ๐Ÿ“
Answer
์ •ํ™• โ†’ ์ •ํ™•ํžˆ ์–ด๋””์˜ˆ์š”? The most natural direction-asking opener.
C. ์ด ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋ฉด ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ๋งŽ์ด ์ ˆ์•ฝํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”.
If you go via this shortcut you can save a lot of time. ๐Ÿ›ค๏ธ
Answer
์ง€๋ฆ„๊ธธ โ†’ ์ง€๋ฆ„๊ธธ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋ฉด. ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ์ ˆ์•ฝํ•˜๋‹ค = to save time.
D. ๋ชฉ์ ์ง€๊ฐ€ ์ƒ๊ฐ๋ณด๋‹ค ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์›Œ์„œ ๊ธˆ๋ฐฉ ๋„์ฐฉํ–ˆ์–ด์š”.
The destination was closer than I thought so I arrived quickly. ๐Ÿ“
Answer
๊ฐ€๊นŒ โ†’ ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์›Œ์„œ. ๋ชฉ์ ์ง€ = destination. ์ƒ๊ฐ๋ณด๋‹ค = more than expected.
E. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ธ ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์ด ๊ธธ์„ ์ฐพ์•˜๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒŒ ์‹ ๊ธฐํ•ด์š”.
It's amazing that someone like me with no sense of direction found this path. ๐Ÿ—บ๏ธ
Answer
๊ธธ์น˜ โ†’ ๊ธธ์น˜์ธ ์ œ๊ฐ€. ๊ธธ์น˜์ธ = who is directionally challenged (modifier). ์‹ ๊ธฐํ•˜๋‹ค = amazing/surprising.
F. ๋„ค๋น„๊ฐ€ ์—†์–ด์„œ ํ•œ์ฐธ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์—ˆ์–ด์š”.
I didn't have navigation so I wandered for a long time. ๐ŸŒ€
Answer
ํ—ค๋งธ โ†’ ํ—ค๋งธ์–ด์š”. ๋„ค๋น„ = navigation (GPS). ํ•œ์ฐธ = for a long time.
G. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•œ ์œ„์น˜๋ฅผ ์•Œ๋ ค ์ฃผ์‹œ๋ฉด ๊ธˆ๋ฐฉ ์ฐพ์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”.
If you tell me the exact location I can find it quickly. ๐Ÿ“
Answer
์ •ํ™• โ†’ ์ •ํ™•ํ•œ ์œ„์น˜. ์ •ํ™•ํ•˜๋‹ค modifier = ์ •ํ™•ํ•œ. ์œ„์น˜ = location. ์•Œ๋ ค ์ฃผ๋‹ค = to inform.
H. ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์„œ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์šด ํŽธ์˜์ ์ด ์–ด๋””์˜ˆ์š”?
Where's the nearest convenience store from here? ๐Ÿ“
Answer
๊ฐ€๊นŒ โ†’ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์šด. ๊ฐ€์žฅ = most. ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์šด + noun = nearest.
I. ์ด ๊ณจ๋ชฉ์ด ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด์—์š”. ์ด์ชฝ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ค์„ธ์š”.
This alley is the shortcut. Come this way. ๐Ÿ›ค๏ธ
Answer
์ง€๋ฆ„๊ธธ โ†’ ์ง€๋ฆ„๊ธธ์ด์—์š”. ๊ณจ๋ชฉ = alley. ์ด์ชฝ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ค๋‹ค = to come this way.
J. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋ผ์„œ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ์ง€๋‚˜๊ฐ€๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์—๊ฒŒ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํžˆ ๋ฌผ์–ด๋ดค์–ด์š”.
Because I have no sense of direction, while wandering I asked a passerby precisely. ๐Ÿ—บ๏ธ๐ŸŒ€๐Ÿ“
Answer
๊ธธ์น˜ / ํ—ค๋งค / ์ •ํ™• โ†’ ๊ธธ์น˜๋ผ์„œ ํ—ค๋งค๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ์ง€๋‚˜๊ฐ€๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์—๊ฒŒ ์ •ํ™•ํžˆ ๋ฌผ์–ด๋ดค์–ด์š”. Three words in one sentence. โœ…
๐Ÿ“š
Vocabulary Box
  • ๋ชฉ์ ์ง€ โ†’ destination
  • ์ƒ๊ฐ๋ณด๋‹ค โ†’ more than expected
  • ์‹ ๊ธฐํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ surprising, amazing
  • ๋„ค๋น„ โ†’ navigation/GPS
  • ํ•œ์ฐธ โ†’ for a long time
  • ์œ„์น˜ โ†’ location
  • ์•Œ๋ ค ์ฃผ๋‹ค โ†’ to inform, tell
  • ๊ณจ๋ชฉ โ†’ alley, side street
  • ์ด์ชฝ์œผ๋กœ โ†’ this way
  • ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์šด โ†’ nearest
Tip ๐Ÿ’ก ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์šด + noun = the nearest [thing]. ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์šด ์—ญ = nearest station. ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์šด ์นดํŽ˜ = nearest cafรฉ. Super useful for finding things!

Exercise 4 โ€” Conjugation Focus ๐Ÿ”ง

A. ์—ญ์—์„œ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์šฐ๋ฉด ๊ฑธ์–ด์„œ ๊ฐˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”. (if close)
If it's close from the station you can walk. ๐Ÿ“
Answer
๊ฐ€๊นŒ โ†’ ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์šฐ๋ฉด. ๊ฐ€๊น๋‹ค + -(์œผ)๋ฉด = ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์šฐ๋ฉด (ใ…‚-irregular before vowel). ๊ฑธ์–ด์„œ ๊ฐ€๋‹ค = to walk there.
B. ์–ด์ œ๋„ ๊ธธ์„ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์—ˆ์–ด์š”. (wandered)
I wandered around lost yesterday too. ๐ŸŒ€
Answer
ํ—ค๋งธ โ†’ ํ—ค๋งธ์–ด์š”. ํ—ค๋งค๋‹ค past = ํ—ค๋งธ์–ด์š”.
C. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•œ ๊ฒฝ๋กœ๋ฅผ ์•Œ๋ ค ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”. (precise)
Please tell me the precise route. ๐Ÿ“
Answer
์ •ํ™• โ†’ ์ •ํ™•ํ•œ. ์ •ํ™•ํ•˜๋‹ค modifier = ์ •ํ™•ํ•œ + noun. ๊ฒฝ๋กœ = route.
D. ์ด ๋™๋„ค๋Š” ๋ณผ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์šด ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ์— ์žˆ์–ด์š”. (in a close distance)
In this neighbourhood, sightseeing spots are within close distance. ๐Ÿ“
Answer
๊ฐ€๊นŒ โ†’ ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์šด ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ์—. ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์šด + noun. ๋ณผ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ = things to see/sightseeing spots. ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ = distance.
E. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋Š” ๊ฑธ ์ข‹์•„ํ•˜๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋„ ์žˆ์–ด์š”. (people who like wandering)
There are people who like wandering around. ๐ŸŒ€
Answer
ํ—ค๋งค โ†’ ํ—ค๋งค๋Š” ๊ฑธ ์ข‹์•„ํ•˜๋‹ค. ํ—ค๋งค๋‹ค modifier = ํ—ค๋งค๋Š”. -๋Š” ๊ฑธ ์ข‹์•„ํ•˜๋‹ค = to like doing.
F. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€ ๋ฌผ์–ด๋ดค์–ด์š”. (if there's a shortcut)
I asked if there was a shortcut. ๐Ÿ›ค๏ธ
Answer
์ง€๋ฆ„๊ธธ โ†’ ์ง€๋ฆ„๊ธธ์ด ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€ ๋ฌผ์–ด๋ดค์–ด์š”. -๋Š”์ง€ = whether/if (indirect question).
G. ์–ด๊ธฐ์„œ ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์›Œ์š”? (how close)
How close is it from here? ๐Ÿ“
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๊ฐ€๊นŒ โ†’ ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์›Œ์š”? ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ = how much/how. ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์›Œ์š” = is it close?
H. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํžˆ ๊ฐ€๋ฅด์ณ ์ฃผ์‹œ๋ฉด ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์ฐพ์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”. (if you tell me precisely)
If you tell me precisely I can find it. ๐Ÿ“
Answer
์ •ํ™• โ†’ ์ •ํ™•ํžˆ ๊ฐ€๋ฅด์ณ ์ฃผ์‹œ๋ฉด. ๊ฐ€๋ฅด์ณ ์ฃผ๋‹ค = to teach/show. -์œผ์‹œ๋ฉด = if you (honorific).
I. ์ด ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋ฉด ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ์ ˆ์•ฝํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”. (via this shortcut)
Going via this shortcut saves time. ๐Ÿ›ค๏ธ
Answer
์ง€๋ฆ„๊ธธ โ†’ ์ง€๋ฆ„๊ธธ๋กœ. ์ ˆ์•ฝํ•˜๋‹ค = to save.
J. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ธ ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ  ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํžˆ ๋„์ฐฉํ–ˆ์–ด์š”!
Someone with no sense of direction like me arrived precisely without getting lost! ๐Ÿ—บ๏ธ๐ŸŒ€๐Ÿ“
Answer
๊ธธ์น˜ / ํ—ค๋งค / ์ •ํ™• โ†’ ๊ธธ์น˜์ธ ์ œ๊ฐ€ ํ—ค๋งค์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ  ์ •ํ™•ํžˆ ๋„์ฐฉํ–ˆ์–ด์š”! -์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ  = without doing. โœ…
๐Ÿ“š
Vocabulary Box
  • ๊ฒฝ๋กœ โ†’ route, path
  • ๋ณผ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ โ†’ things to see
  • ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ โ†’ distance (also: street)
  • -๋Š”์ง€ โ†’ whether/if (indirect)
  • ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ โ†’ how much/how
  • ๊ฐ€๋ฅด์ณ ์ฃผ๋‹ค โ†’ to teach/show
  • ์ ˆ์•ฝํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to save (time/money)
  • ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์šฐ๋ฉด โ†’ if close (ใ…‚-irregular conditional)
Tip ๐Ÿ’ก ๊ฐ€๊น๋‹ค ใ…‚-irregular: ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์›Œ์š” / ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์› ์–ด์š” / ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์šด / ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์›Œ์„œ / ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์šฐ๋ฉด. The ใ…‚ drops before all vowel endings.

Exercise 5 โ€” Mixed Mastery + Pitfall Patrol ๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ

A. โŒ ๊ฐ€๊น์–ด์š” โ†’ โœ… ๊ฐ€๊นŒ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์š”
It's close. ๐Ÿ“
Answer
์›Œ โ†’ ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์›Œ์š”. ใ…‚ drops + ์šฐ + ์•„ = ์›Œ. ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์›Œ์š” โœ… (never ๊ฐ€๊น์–ด์š”). โœ…
B. โŒ ๊ธธ์น˜๋ฅผ ํ•ด์š” โ†’ โœ… ๊ธธ์น˜๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์š”
I have no sense of direction. ๐Ÿ—บ๏ธ
Answer
์˜ˆ โ†’ ๊ธธ์น˜์˜ˆ์š”. ๊ธธ์น˜ is a noun โ€” use ์ด๋‹ค/์˜ˆ์š”. Never ํ•˜๋‹ค with ๊ธธ์น˜. โœ…
C. ์ €๋Š” ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋ผ์„œ ํ•ญ์ƒ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์–ด์š”. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉด ๊ผญ ์จ์š”.
Because I have no sense of direction I always wander. So if there's a shortcut I always use it. ๐Ÿ—บ๏ธ๐ŸŒ€๐Ÿ›ค๏ธ
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๊ธธ์น˜ / ํ—ค๋งค / ์ง€๋ฆ„๊ธธ โ†’ ๊ธธ์น˜๋ผ์„œ ํ•ญ์ƒ ํ—ค๋งค์š”. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์ง€๋ฆ„๊ธธ์ด ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉด ๊ผญ ์จ์š”. Three words. โœ…
D. โŒ ์ง€๋ฆ„๊ธธ์„ ํ•ด์š” โ†’ โœ… ์ง€๋ฆ„๊ธธ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ ๊ฐ€์š”
I go via the shortcut. ๐Ÿ›ค๏ธ
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๋กœ โ†’ ์ง€๋ฆ„๊ธธ๋กœ ๊ฐ€์š”. ์ง€๋ฆ„๊ธธ + -๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋‹ค = to go via the shortcut. ๋ฅผ ํ•˜๋‹ค is wrong. โœ…
E. ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์„œ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์›Œ์š”? ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํžˆ ๋ช‡ ๋ถ„์ด์—์š”?
Is it close from here? Exactly how many minutes? ๐Ÿ“๐Ÿ“
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๊ฐ€๊นŒ / ์ •ํ™• โ†’ ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์›Œ์š”? ์ •ํ™•ํžˆ ๋ช‡ ๋ถ„์ด์—์š”? Two words in classic direction-asking. โœ…
F. โŒ ์ •ํ™•ํžˆ์˜ˆ์š” โ†’ โœ… ์ •ํ™•ํžˆ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์˜ˆ์š”
It's exactly here. ๐Ÿ“
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์—ฌ๊ธฐ โ†’ ์ •ํ™•ํžˆ ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์˜ˆ์š”. ์ •ํ™•ํžˆ is an adverb โ€” it modifies a predicate, not stands alone. โœ…
G. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ์„œ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ  ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํžˆ ๋„์ฐฉํ–ˆ์–ด์š”.
Because I wasn't a directional disaster, I arrived precisely without wandering. ๐Ÿ—บ๏ธ๐ŸŒ€๐Ÿ“
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๊ธธ์น˜ / ํ—ค๋งค / ์ •ํ™• โ†’ ๊ธธ์น˜๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ์„œ ํ—ค๋งค์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ  ์ •ํ™•ํžˆ ๋„์ฐฉํ–ˆ์–ด์š”. -์ด/๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ์„œ = because not being. โœ…
H. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์›Œ์„œ ๊ฑธ์–ด๊ฐˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ณ , ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด ์žˆ์–ด์„œ ๋” ๋นจ๋ฆฌ ๊ฐˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”.
It's close so we can walk, and there's a shortcut so we can go even faster. ๐Ÿ“๐Ÿ›ค๏ธ
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๊ฐ€๊นŒ / ์ง€๋ฆ„๊ธธ โ†’ ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์›Œ์„œ ๊ฑธ์–ด๊ฐˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ณ , ์ง€๋ฆ„๊ธธ์ด ์žˆ์–ด์„œ ๋” ๋นจ๋ฆฌ ๊ฐˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”. โœ…
I. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•œ ์œ„์น˜๋ฅผ ์•Œ๋ฉด ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋„ ์•ˆ ํ•˜๊ณ  ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์šด ๊ณณ์— ์ฃผ์ฐจํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”.
If you know the exact location you can park at a nearby place without wandering. ๐Ÿ“๐ŸŒ€๐Ÿ“
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์ •ํ™• / ํ—ค๋งค / ๊ฐ€๊นŒ โ†’ ์ •ํ™•ํ•œ ์œ„์น˜๋ฅผ ์•Œ๋ฉด ํ—ค๋งค์ง€๋„ ์•Š๊ณ  ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์šด ๊ณณ์— ์ฃผ์ฐจํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”. ์ฃผ์ฐจํ•˜๋‹ค = to park. โœ…
J. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ธ๋ฐ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด๋กœ ๊ฐ”๋”๋‹ˆ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์„œ ์•ˆ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๊ณ  ๋„์ฐฉํ–ˆ์–ด์š”!
Even though I have no sense of direction, I went via the shortcut and it was close so I arrived without wandering! ๐Ÿ—บ๏ธ๐Ÿ›ค๏ธ๐Ÿ“๐ŸŒ€
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๊ธธ์น˜ / ์ง€๋ฆ„๊ธธ / ๊ฐ€๊นŒ / ํ—ค๋งค โ†’ ๊ธธ์น˜์ธ๋ฐ ์ง€๋ฆ„๊ธธ๋กœ ๊ฐ”๋”๋‹ˆ ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์›Œ์„œ ์•ˆ ํ—ค๋งค๊ณ  ๋„์ฐฉํ–ˆ์–ด์š”! All five concepts together. โœ…
๐Ÿ“š
Vocabulary Box โ€” Pitfall Recap
  • โŒ ๊ฐ€๊น์–ด์š” โ†’ โœ… ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์›Œ์š” (ใ…‚-irregular)
  • โŒ ๊ธธ์น˜๋ฅผ ํ•ด์š” โ†’ โœ… ๊ธธ์น˜์˜ˆ์š” (noun, use ์ด๋‹ค)
  • โŒ ์ง€๋ฆ„๊ธธ์„ ํ•ด์š” โ†’ โœ… ์ง€๋ฆ„๊ธธ๋กœ ๊ฐ€์š” (-๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋‹ค)
  • โŒ ์ •ํ™•ํžˆ์˜ˆ์š” โ†’ โœ… ์ •ํ™•ํžˆ ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์˜ˆ์š” (adverb needs predicate)
  • โœ… Full direction sentence: ๊ธธ์น˜๋ผ์„œ ํ—ค๋งค๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ์ง€๋ฆ„๊ธธ์„ ์ฐพ์•„์„œ ์ •ํ™•ํžˆ ๋„์ฐฉํ–ˆ์–ด์š”. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐ๋ณด๋‹ค ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์› ์–ด์š”!
Tip ๐Ÿ’ก The perfect Korean direction question: ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์„œ ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์›Œ์š”? ์ •ํ™•ํžˆ ๋ช‡ ๋ถ„์ด์—์š”? ์ง€๋ฆ„๊ธธ์ด ์žˆ์–ด์š”? Three questions that cover everything. ๐Ÿงญ
๐ŸŽ‰ ๊ธธ ์ฐพ๊ธฐ ์™„์„ฑ! ๐Ÿงญ Now you can describe getting lost (๊ธธ์น˜, ํ—ค๋งค๋‹ค), find the fastest route (์ง€๋ฆ„๊ธธ), ask precisely (์ •ํ™•ํžˆ), and know if it's within reach (๊ฐ€๊น๋‹ค). ์ด์ œ ์–ด๋””์„œ๋“  ๊ธธ์„ ๋ฌผ์–ด๋ณผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”! ๐Ÿ—บ๏ธโœจ