TL;DR ๐ฆ
- ๐ ๊ตํ = swapping for another item; ํ๋ถ = getting your money back โ know which you want before you walk in
- ๐งพ ์์์ฆ is your golden ticket โ without it, returns get complicated fast
- ๐ ๋ฒ๊ฑฐ๋กญ๋ค is how you politely acknowledge you're asking for extra effort; ํ์คํ is how you make sure there's no ambiguity; ์์ฒญํ๋ค is the formal verb that makes it all official
๐ง Iru Helper Note โ Head to the Korean Helper Widgets and hear today's sentences at natural speed. ๋ฒ๊ฑฐ๋ก์ฐ์๊ฒ ์ง๋ง is a beautiful polite softener worth hearing in context. ๐งพ
๐ The Big Picture
Returns and refunds in Korean require a specific combination of vocabulary, politeness, and clarity. You don't just say "refund" โ you explain the situation, present proof (์์์ฆ), acknowledge any inconvenience (๋ฒ๊ฑฐ๋กญ๋ค), confirm clearly (ํ์คํ), and make a formal request (์์ฒญํ๋ค). Getting this right will save you a lot of awkward moments at customer service counters.
These five words cover everything from the moment you hand over your ์์์ฆ to the polite request that gets things resolved.
๐จ The Core Returns & Refunds Family
1. ๊ตํ โ exchange (swapping an item) ๐
๊ตํํ๋ค = to exchange. ๊ตํ์ด ๊ฐ๋ฅํด์? = Is an exchange possible? Used when you want a different size, colour, or item โ not your money back.
Related terms: ํ๋ถ = refund (money back), ๋ฐํ = return (sending the item back).
2. ์์์ฆ โ receipt ๐งพ
Your proof of purchase. ์์์ฆ์ ๊ฐ์ง๊ณ ์ค๋ค = to bring the receipt. ์ ์ ์์์ฆ = electronic receipt. ์์์ฆ์ด ์์ผ๋ฉด = if there's no receipt.
3. ๋ฒ๊ฑฐ๋กญ๋ค โ troublesome, inconvenient (for the other person) ๐
A ใ
-irregular adjective used to acknowledge you're causing extra effort. ๋ฒ๊ฑฐ๋ก์ฐ์๊ฒ ์ง๋ง = I know it may be inconvenient for you, but... The gold standard polite opener at customer service. Also: ๋ฒ๊ฑฐ๋กญ๊ฒ ํด ๋๋ ค์ ์ฃ์กํด์ = I'm sorry for troubling you.
4. ํ์คํ โ clearly, definitely, with certainty ๐
Adverb meaning "for sure." ํ์คํ ๋ถ๋ํ์ด์์ = It's definitely defective. ํ์คํ ํ์ธํด ์ฃผ์ธ์ = Please check clearly/definitely.
5. ์์ฒญํ๋ค โ to formally request ๐
More formal than ๋ถํํ๋ค. ํ๋ถ์ ์์ฒญํ๋ค = to request a refund. ๊ตํ์ ์์ฒญํ๋ค = to request an exchange. Standard in customer service, business, and official contexts.
๐ ๏ธ How They Work in a Sentence
์์์ฆ์ ๊ฐ์ง๊ณ ์๋๋ฐ ๊ตํ์ด ๊ฐ๋ฅํ๊ฐ์?
I brought the receipt โ is an exchange possible? ๐งพ๐
โ -๋๋ฐ = and/but (contextual connector)
๋ฒ๊ฑฐ๋ก์ฐ์๊ฒ ์ง๋ง ํ์ธํด ์ฃผ์๊ฒ ์ด์?
I know it may be inconvenient, but could you please check? ๐๐
โ The classic polite customer service opener; -๊ฒ ์ง๋ง = I imagine it is, but
์ ํ์ ๋ฌธ์ ๊ฐ ์์ด์ ํ๋ถ์ ์์ฒญํ๊ณ ์ถ์ต๋๋ค.
There's a problem with the product so I'd like to request a refund. ๐
โ -์/์ด์ causal; -๊ณ ์ถ์ต๋๋ค polite want
๐งฉ General Formation Rule
- ๊ตํํ๋ค โ regular ํ๋ค: ๊ตํํด์ / ๊ตํํ์ด์ / ๊ตํํ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์ / ๊ตํ์ด ๊ฐ๋ฅํด์
- ๋ฒ๊ฑฐ๋กญ๋ค โ ใ -irregular: ๋ฒ๊ฑฐ๋ก์์ / ๋ฒ๊ฑฐ๋ก์ด ์ ์ฐจ / ๋ฒ๊ฑฐ๋ก์ฐ์๊ฒ ์ง๋ง / ๋ฒ๊ฑฐ๋กญ๊ฒ ํ๋ค
- ํ์คํ โ adverb, no conjugation โ placed before verbs
- ์์ฒญํ๋ค โ regular ํ๋ค: ์์ฒญํด์ / ์์ฒญํ์ต๋๋ค / ์์ฒญํ๊ณ ์ถ์ต๋๋ค
๐จ ใ
-irregular: ๋ฒ๊ฑฐ๋กญ๋ค โ ๋ฒ๊ฑฐ๋ก์์ / ๋ฒ๊ฑฐ๋ก์ด / ๋ฒ๊ฑฐ๋ก์ฐ์๊ฒ ์ง๋ง (honorific conditional)
๐ Cross-check note
All vocabulary and conjugations cross-checked against korean.go.kr โ
๐ช Synonym Alert
- ๊ตํ โ ๋ฐ๊พธ๋ค โ ๋ฐ๊พธ๋ค = to swap/change (casual); ๊ตํ = exchange (formal customer service term)
- ์์ฒญํ๋ค โ ๋ถํํ๋ค โ ๋ถํํ๋ค = to ask/request (friendly); ์์ฒญํ๋ค = to formally request (professional/official)
- ๋ฒ๊ฑฐ๋กญ๋ค โ ๋ถํธํ๋ค โ ๋ถํธํ๋ค = inconvenient/uncomfortable; ๋ฒ๊ฑฐ๋กญ๋ค = troublesome/burdensome (implies extra effort)
- ํ์คํ โ ๋ถ๋ช ํ โ ๋ถ๋ช ํ = clearly, obviously; ํ์คํ = definitely, with certainty (both work in most contexts)
โ ๏ธ Pitfalls to Dodge
โ ๊ตํ (when you want your money back) โ โ
ํ๋ถ โ ๊ตํ = swap item. ํ๋ถ = money back. Very different outcomes.
โ ๋ฒ๊ฑฐ๋กญ์ด์ โ โ
๋ฒ๊ฑฐ๋ก์์ โ ใ
-irregular: ๋ฒ๊ฑฐ๋กญ + ์์ = ๋ฒ๊ฑฐ๋ก์์.
โ ์์์ฆ์ด ์์ด์? (to staff) โ โ
์์์ฆ์ ๊ฐ์ง๊ณ ์ค์
จ๋์? โ Much more polite when staff are asking a customer. Use honorific -์-.
โ ์์ฒญํด์ (in formal written request) โ โ
์์ฒญํฉ๋๋ค / ์์ฒญ๋๋ฆฝ๋๋ค โ In formal service contexts, -ํฉ๋๋ค / -๋๋ฆฝ๋๋ค is more appropriate.
๊ตํ์ด๋ ํ๋ถ์ด๋ โ ์์์ฆ์ ์ฑ๊ธฐ๊ณ , ๋ฒ๊ฑฐ๋ก์ฐ์๊ฒ ์ง๋ง ํ์คํ ์์ฒญํ๋ฉด ๋ผ์! ๐งพ๐๐ช
Try this exercise
Instructions: Fill in each blank with the correct word or form. Watch for ใ
-irregular forms of ๋ฒ๊ฑฐ๋กญ๋ค.
1. ์ฌ์ด์ฆ๊ฐ ๋ง์ง ์์์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์.
The size doesn't fit so I'd like to exchange it. ๐
Answer
๊ตํ โ ๊ตํํ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์. ์ฌ์ด์ฆ๊ฐ ๋ง์ง ์๋ค = size doesn't fit.
2. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ ๊ฐ์ง๊ณ ์ค์
จ๋์?
Did you bring the receipt? ๐งพ
Answer
์์์ฆ โ ์์์ฆ์ ๊ฐ์ง๊ณ ์ค์
จ๋์? -์- = honorific. ๊ฐ์ง๊ณ ์ค๋ค = to bring.
3. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋ก์ฐ์๊ฒ ์ง๋ง, ํ ๋ฒ ๋ ํ์ธํด ์ฃผ์๊ฒ ์ด์?
I know it may be inconvenient, but could you check one more time? ๐
Answer
๋ฒ๊ฑฐ โ ๋ฒ๊ฑฐ๋ก์ฐ์๊ฒ ์ง๋ง. ใ
-irregular honorific conditional. The classic polite opener.
4. ์ ํ์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ ๋ฌธ์ ๊ฐ ์์ด์.
There is definitely a problem with the product. ๐
Answer
ํ์ค โ ํ์คํ ๋ฌธ์ ๊ฐ ์์ด์.
5. ํ๋ถ์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ๊ณ ์ถ์ต๋๋ค.
I would like to request a refund. ๐
Answer
์์ฒญ โ ์์ฒญํ๊ณ ์ถ์ต๋๋ค. Formal -์ถ์ต๋๋ค.
6. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด ์์ด๋ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด ๊ฐ๋ฅํ๊ฐ์?
Is an exchange possible even without a receipt? ๐งพ๐
Answer
์์์ฆ / ๊ตํ โ ์์์ฆ์ด ์์ด๋ ๊ตํ์ด ๊ฐ๋ฅํ๊ฐ์? -์ด/๊ฐ ์์ด๋ = even without.
7. ์ ์ฐจ๊ฐ ์กฐ๊ธ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์์.
The process is a little troublesome. ๐
Answer
๋ฒ๊ฑฐ๋ก โ ๋ฒ๊ฑฐ๋ก์์. ใ
-irregular.
8. ๊ตํ ๊ท์ ์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ ์๊ณ ์ถ์ด์.
I want to clearly understand the exchange policy. ๐
Answer
ํ์ค โ ํ์คํ ์๊ณ ์ถ์ด์. ๊ตํ ๊ท์ = exchange policy.
9. ๊ณ ๊ฐ์ด ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ์ด์.
The customer formally requested an exchange. ๐๐
Answer
๊ตํ / ์์ฒญ โ ๊ตํ์ ์์ฒญํ์ด์. ๊ณ ๊ฐ = customer.
10. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๊ฒ ํด ๋๋ ค์ ์ฃ์กํด์.
I'm sorry for troubling you. ๐
Answer
๋ฒ๊ฑฐ๋กญ โ ๋ฒ๊ฑฐ๋กญ๊ฒ ํด ๋๋ ค์ ์ฃ์กํด์. ๋ฒ๊ฑฐ๋กญ๊ฒ ํ๋ค = to trouble/inconvenience. ์ฃ์กํ๋ค = to be sorry.
Vocabulary Box
- ๊ตํ โ exchange (different item)
- ๊ตํํ๋ค โ to exchange
- ํ๋ถ โ refund (money back)
- ๋ฐํ โ return (sending back)
- ์์์ฆ โ receipt
- ์ ์ ์์์ฆ โ electronic receipt
- ๋ฒ๊ฑฐ๋กญ๋ค โ troublesome (ใ -irregular)
- ๋ฒ๊ฑฐ๋ก์์ โ it's troublesome
- ๋ฒ๊ฑฐ๋ก์ฐ์๊ฒ ์ง๋ง โ I know it may be inconvenient, but
- ํ์คํ โ clearly, definitely
- ์์ฒญํ๋ค โ to formally request
- ๋ถ๋ํ โ defective product
Memory tips ๐ก
- ๊ตํ vs ํ๋ถ: ๊ตํ = change the item; ํ๋ถ = return the money
- ๋ฒ๊ฑฐ๋กญ๋ค โ ๋ฒ๊ฑฐ๋ก์์ โ (ใ -irregular)
- ์์์ฆ = your proof โ always bring it
Want more reps? Visit the Practice Hub when you're ready! ๐
๐ฏ Practice Hub โ Vocab: Returns & Refunds
๋ฐํ/๊ตํ ์ผํฐ์ ์ค์ ๊ฑธ ํ์ํด์! ๐งพ This Practice Hub drills all five words โ ๊ตํ, ์์์ฆ, ๋ฒ๊ฑฐ๋กญ๋ค, ํ์คํ, ์์ฒญํ๋ค โ across five exercises covering real return and refund scenarios. By the end you'll handle any Korean customer service situation with confidence. ๐
๐ Audio reminder: Use the Korean Helper Widgets to hear any sentence. ๋ฒ๊ฑฐ๋ก์ฐ์๊ฒ ์ง๋ง is particularly worth hearing โ the honorific conditional form sounds very natural in service contexts.
๐ Instructions: Fill in each blank with the correct word or form. Watch for ใ
-irregular forms of ๋ฒ๊ฑฐ๋กญ๋ค!
Exercise 1 โ At the Counter ๐ช
A. ์ด ์ท์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์. ์ฌ์ด์ฆ๊ฐ ์์์.
I'd like to exchange this clothes. The size is small. ๐
Answer
๊ตํ โ ๊ตํํ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์.
B. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ ๋ณด์ฌ ์ฃผ์๊ฒ ์ด์?
Could you show me the receipt? ๐งพ
Answer
์์์ฆ โ ์์์ฆ์ ๋ณด์ฌ ์ฃผ์๊ฒ ์ด์?
C. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋ก์ฐ์๊ฒ ์ง๋ง, ์์์ฆ์ ํ์ธํด ์ฃผ์ธ์.
I know it may be inconvenient, but please check the receipt. ๐
Answer
๋ฒ๊ฑฐ โ ๋ฒ๊ฑฐ๋ก์ฐ์๊ฒ ์ง๋ง. Classic polite opener.
D. ์ ํ์ด ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ ๋ถ๋ํ์ด์์.
This product is definitely defective. ๐
Answer
ํ์ค โ ํ์คํ ๋ถ๋ํ์ด์์. ๋ถ๋ํ = defective product.
E. ํ๋ถ์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ถ์ต๋๋ค.
I would like to formally request a refund. ๐
Answer
์์ฒญ โ ์์ฒญ๋๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ถ์ต๋๋ค. ์์ฒญ๋๋ฆฌ๋ค = to request (humble/formal).
F. ๊ฐ์ ๋์์ธ์ผ๋ก ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ ์ ์์ด์?
Can I exchange it for the same design? ๐
Answer
๊ตํ โ ๊ตํํ ์ ์์ด์? ๊ฐ์ ๋์์ธ์ผ๋ก = for the same design.
G. ์ ์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋ ๊ด์ฐฎ์์?
Is an electronic receipt okay? ๐งพ
Answer
์์์ฆ โ ์ ์ ์์์ฆ๋ ๊ด์ฐฎ์์?
H. ์ ์ฐจ๊ฐ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์์ ์ฃ์กํฉ๋๋ค.
I'm sorry the process is troublesome. ๐
Answer
๋ฒ๊ฑฐ๋ก โ ๋ฒ๊ฑฐ๋ก์์. ใ
-irregular + -์/์ด์.
I. ๊ตํ์ด ๊ฐ๋ฅํ์ง ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ ์๊ณ ์ถ์ด์.
I definitely want to know if an exchange is possible. ๐
Answer
ํ์ค โ ํ์คํ ์๊ณ ์ถ์ด์.
J. ๋ฐฐ์ก๋น ํ๋ถ๋ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ ์ ์๋์?
Can I also formally request a shipping fee refund? ๐
Answer
์์ฒญ โ ์์ฒญํ ์ ์๋์? ๋ฐฐ์ก๋น = shipping fee.
Vocabulary Box
- ์ฌ์ด์ฆ๊ฐ ์๋ค/ํฌ๋ค โ size is small/big
- ๋ถ๋ํ โ defective product
- ๊ฐ์ ๋์์ธ์ผ๋ก โ for the same design
- ์ ์ ์์์ฆ โ electronic receipt
- ๋ฐฐ์ก๋น โ shipping fee
- ์์ฒญ๋๋ฆฌ๋ค โ to request (humble)
- ์ ์ฐจ โ process, procedure
Tip ๐ก The three R's: ๊ตํ (exchange item) / ํ๋ถ (money back) / ๋ฐํ (return item). Know which you want before you speak โ asking for the wrong one causes confusion.
Exercise 2 โ Explaining the Problem ๐
A. ์์์ด ์ฃผ๋ฌธํ ๊ฒ๊ณผ ๋ฌ๋ผ์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์.
The colour is different from what I ordered so I'd like to exchange it. ๐
Answer
๊ตํ โ ๊ตํํ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์. ์์ = colour. ์ฃผ๋ฌธํ ๊ฒ๊ณผ ๋ค๋ฅด๋ค = different from what was ordered.
B. ๊ตฌ๋งค ๋น์ผ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ ์์ด๋ฒ๋ ธ์ด์.
I lost the receipt the day of purchase. ๐งพ
Answer
์์์ฆ โ ์์์ฆ์ ์์ด๋ฒ๋ ธ์ด์. ๊ตฌ๋งค ๋น์ผ = the day of purchase. ์์ด๋ฒ๋ฆฌ๋ค = to lose.
C. ๋ฒํผ์ด ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ ์๋ํ์ง ์์์.
The button definitely doesn't work. ๐
Answer
ํ์ค โ ํ์คํ ์๋ํ์ง ์์์. ์๋ํ๋ค = to work/operate.
D. ํ๋ถ์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ๋ฌ ์์ด์.
I came to formally request a refund. ๐
Answer
์์ฒญ โ ์์ฒญํ๋ฌ ์์ด์. -๋ฌ ์ค๋ค = to come in order to do.
E. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋ก์ด ์ ์ฐจ์ง๋ง ๊ผญ ํด์ผ ํด์.
It's a troublesome process but it must be done. ๐
Answer
๋ฒ๊ฑฐ โ ๋ฒ๊ฑฐ๋ก์ด ์ ์ฐจ. ใ
-irregular modifier: ๋ฒ๊ฑฐ๋กญ๋ค โ ๋ฒ๊ฑฐ๋ก์ด + noun.
F. ํฌ์ฅ์ด ์ด๋ ค ์์ด์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ ํ์ธํด์ผ ํด์.
The packaging is open so the receipt needs to be confirmed. ๐งพ
Answer
์์์ฆ โ ์์์ฆ์ ํ์ธํด์ผ ํด์. ํฌ์ฅ์ด ์ด๋ฆฌ๋ค = packaging is opened.
G. ์ด ์ ํ์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ ํ์๊ฐ ์์ด์.
This product definitely has a defect. ๐
Answer
ํ์ค โ ํ์คํ ํ์๊ฐ ์์ด์. ํ์ = defect, flaw.
H. ํฌ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ์ ๋ง์์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ์ด์.
The size didn't fit so I formally requested an exchange. ๐๐
Answer
๊ตํ / ์์ฒญ โ ๊ตํ์ ์์ฒญํ์ด์.
I. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๊ฒ ํด ๋๋ ค์ ์ฃ์กํ๋ฐ, ํ ๋ฒ ๋ ํ์ธํด ์ฃผ์ธ์.
I'm sorry for the trouble, but please check one more time. ๐
Answer
๋ฒ๊ฑฐ๋กญ โ ๋ฒ๊ฑฐ๋กญ๊ฒ ํด ๋๋ ค์. ๋ฒ๊ฑฐ๋กญ๊ฒ ํ๋ค = to cause trouble.
J. ์์์ฆ์ ๋ณด์ฌ๋๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค.
I'll show the receipt and formally request a refund. ๐งพ๐
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ํ๋ถ / ์์ฒญ โ ํ๋ถ์ ์์ฒญํ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ๋ณด์ฌ๋๋ฆฌ๋ค = to show (humble).
Vocabulary Box
- ์์ โ colour
- ์ฃผ๋ฌธํ ๊ฒ๊ณผ ๋ค๋ฅด๋ค โ different from ordered
- ์์ด๋ฒ๋ฆฌ๋ค โ to lose
- ์๋ํ๋ค โ to work/operate
- ํ์ โ defect, flaw
- ํฌ์ฅ์ด ์ด๋ฆฌ๋ค โ packaging is opened
- ๋ฒ๊ฑฐ๋ก์ด โ troublesome (modifier)
- ๋ณด์ฌ๋๋ฆฌ๋ค โ to show (humble)
Tip ๐ก ๋ฒ๊ฑฐ๋กญ๋ค ใ
-irregular: ๋ฒ๊ฑฐ๋ก์์ (pres) / ๋ฒ๊ฑฐ๋ก์ ์ด์ (past) / ๋ฒ๊ฑฐ๋ก์ด (modifier) / ๋ฒ๊ฑฐ๋ก์ฐ์๊ฒ ์ง๋ง (honorific conditional).
Exercise 3 โ Polite Service Language ๐
A. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋ก์ฐ์๊ฒ ์ง๋ง, ์์์ฆ ์์ด๋ ๊ฐ๋ฅํ์ง ์๋ ค ์ฃผ์๊ฒ ์ด์?
I know it may be inconvenient, but could you let me know if it's possible without a receipt? ๐
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๋ฒ๊ฑฐ โ ๋ฒ๊ฑฐ๋ก์ฐ์๊ฒ ์ง๋ง.
B. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์ง๊ณ ์์ผ๋ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ๊ณ ์ถ์ต๋๋ค.
I brought the receipt so I'd like to request an exchange. ๐งพ๐
Answer
์์์ฆ / ๊ตํ โ ์์์ฆ์ ๊ฐ์ง๊ณ ์์ผ๋ ๊ตํํ๊ณ ์ถ์ต๋๋ค. -์ผ๋ = since/because.
C. ํ๋ถ ๊ท์ ์ด ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋๋์ง ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ ์๊ณ ์ถ์ด์.
I definitely want to know what the refund policy is. ๐
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ํ์ค โ ํ์คํ ์๊ณ ์ถ์ด์. ํ๋ถ ๊ท์ = refund policy. ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋๋ค = how it works.
D. ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋์ด ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ์
จ์ต๋๋ค.
The customer has formally requested an exchange. ๐๐
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๊ตํ / ์์ฒญ โ ๊ตํ์ ์์ฒญํ์
จ์ต๋๋ค. -์- = honorific.
E. ์ฒ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋ก์์ ์๊ฐ์ด ๊ฑธ๋ฆด ์ ์์ด์.
The processing may be troublesome so it could take time. ๐
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๋ฒ๊ฑฐ โ ๋ฒ๊ฑฐ๋ก์์. ใ
-irregular + -์์.
F. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ๋ฉด ํ๋ถ์ ๋ถ๊ฐ๋ฅํด์.
To be clear, a refund is not possible. ๐
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ํ์ค โ ํ์คํ ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ๋ฉด = to be clear/definitive (humble). ๋ถ๊ฐ๋ฅํ๋ค = impossible.
G. ์ง๋์ฃผ์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ ํ๋ถ์ด ์ฒ๋ฆฌ๋๋์ง ํ์ธํด ์ฃผ์ธ์.
Please check whether the refund I formally requested last week has been processed. ๐
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์์ฒญ โ ์์ฒญํ ํ๋ถ. ์์ฒญํ๋ค modifier = ์์ฒญํ. ์ฒ๋ฆฌ๋๋ค = to be processed.
H. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ ๋ถ์คํ์
จ์ผ๋ฉด ์นด๋ ๋ด์ญ์ผ๋ก ๋์ ํ ์ ์์ด์.
If you've lost the receipt, a card statement can substitute. ๐งพ
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์์์ฆ โ ์์์ฆ์ ๋ถ์คํ์
จ์ผ๋ฉด. ๋ถ์คํ๋ค = to lose. ์นด๋ ๋ด์ญ = card statement. ๋์ ํ๋ค = to substitute.
I. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋ก์ฐ์๊ฒ ์ง๋ง ํ ๋ฒ ๋ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ ํ์ธํด ์ฃผ์๊ฒ ์ด์?
I know it may be inconvenient, but could you check one more time clearly? ๐๐
Answer
๋ฒ๊ฑฐ / ํ์ค โ ๋ฒ๊ฑฐ๋ก์ฐ์๊ฒ ์ง๋ง ํ์คํ ํ์ธํด ์ฃผ์๊ฒ ์ด์? Both polite words together. โ
J. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ ํ์ธํ๊ณ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ๋ฉด ์ฒ๋ฆฌํด ๋๋ฆด๊ฒ์.
If you confirm the receipt and formally request an exchange I'll process it. ๐งพ๐๐
Answer
์์์ฆ / ๊ตํ / ์์ฒญ โ ์์์ฆ์ ํ์ธํ๊ณ ๊ตํ์ ์์ฒญํ๋ฉด ์ฒ๋ฆฌํด ๋๋ฆด๊ฒ์. ์ฒ๋ฆฌํด ๋๋ฆฌ๋ค = to process for you. โ
Vocabulary Box
- ํ๋ถ ๊ท์ โ refund policy
- ์ฒ๋ฆฌ๋๋ค โ to be processed
- ๋ถ์คํ๋ค โ to lose (formal)
- ์นด๋ ๋ด์ญ โ card statement
- ๋์ ํ๋ค โ to substitute
- ๋ถ๊ฐ๋ฅํ๋ค โ impossible
- ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ๋ค โ to say (humble)
- ์ฒ๋ฆฌํด ๋๋ฆฌ๋ค โ to process for you
Tip ๐ก ๋ฒ๊ฑฐ๋ก์ฐ์๊ฒ ์ง๋ง = the most powerful polite opener in Korean customer service. It acknowledges the other person's effort before making a request. Use it freely.
Exercise 4 โ Conjugation Focus ๐ง
A. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ ์ ์ฐจ์ธ๋ฐ ๊ผญ ํด์ผ ํด์. (troublesome, modifier)
It's a troublesome procedure but it must be done. ๐
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๋ฒ๊ฑฐ๋ก์ด โ ๋ฒ๊ฑฐ๋ก์ด ์ ์ฐจ. ใ
-irregular modifier.
B. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด ๊ฐ๋ฅํ์ง ๋ฌผ์ด๋ดค์ด์. (if exchange is possible)
I asked if an exchange was possible. ๐
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๊ตํ โ ๊ตํ์ด ๊ฐ๋ฅํ์ง. -ใด์ง = whether/if (indirect question).
C. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ ์ฑ๊ธฐ๋ ๊ฒ ์ค์ํด์. (keeping the receipt)
It's important to keep the receipt. ๐งพ
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์์์ฆ โ ์์์ฆ์ ์ฑ๊ธฐ๋ค = to keep/make sure to bring. ์ฑ๊ธฐ๋ค = to make sure to have.
D. ๊ทธ๊ฒ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ ๋ง๋ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ์ด์์. (that's definitely the right way)
That is definitely the right way. ๐
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ํ์ค โ ํ์คํ ๋ง๋ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ์ด์์.
E. ๋ ์ด์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ์ง ์๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. (won't request anymore)
I won't make any more formal requests. ๐
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์์ฒญ โ ์์ฒญํ์ง ์๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. -์ง ์๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค = won't do (formal).
F. ์ ๋ง ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋ก์ด ์ํฉ์ด๋ค์. (what a troublesome situation)
What a troublesome situation this is. ๐
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๋ฒ๊ฑฐ โ ๋ฒ๊ฑฐ๋ก์ด ์ํฉ. ์ํฉ = situation.
G. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ ํ์ธํ๊ณ ๋ต๋ณ ๋๋ฆด๊ฒ์. (will check clearly and reply)
I'll check clearly and get back to you. ๐
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ํ์ค โ ํ์คํ ํ์ธํ๊ณ ๋ต๋ณ ๋๋ฆด๊ฒ์. ๋ต๋ณ ๋๋ฆฌ๋ค = to give a reply (humble).
H. ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ ์ฒ๋ฆฌํ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. (will process the request)
We will process the customer's formal request. ๐
Answer
์์ฒญ โ ์์ฒญ์ ์ฒ๋ฆฌํ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋ = customer (honorific).
I. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด ์์ผ์๋ฉด ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด ๋นจ๋ผ์. (with receipt, exchange is faster)
If you have the receipt, the exchange is faster. ๐งพ๐
Answer
์์์ฆ / ๊ตํ โ ์์์ฆ์ด ์์ผ์๋ฉด ๊ตํ์ด ๋นจ๋ผ์. -์ด/๊ฐ ์์ผ์๋ฉด = if you have (honorific).
J. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๊ฒ ํด ๋๋ ค์ ์ฃ์กํ๋ฐ, ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ์
จ๋์?
I'm sorry for the trouble โ did you definitely formally request the refund? ๐๐๐
Answer
๋ฒ๊ฑฐ๋กญ / ํ์ค / ํ๋ถ / ์์ฒญ โ ๋ฒ๊ฑฐ๋กญ๊ฒ ํด ๋๋ ค์ ์ฃ์กํ๋ฐ, ํ์คํ ํ๋ถ์ ์์ฒญํ์
จ๋์? โ
Vocabulary Box
- ์ฑ๊ธฐ๋ค โ to make sure to have/bring
- ์ํฉ โ situation
- ๋ต๋ณ ๋๋ฆฌ๋ค โ to give a reply (humble)
- ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋ โ customer (honorific)
- ์ฒ๋ฆฌํ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค โ will process (formal)
- -์ง ์๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค โ won't do (formal)
Tip ๐ก ๋ฒ๊ฑฐ๋กญ๋ค forms: ๋ฒ๊ฑฐ๋ก์์ (pres) / ๋ฒ๊ฑฐ๋ก์ ์ด์ (past) / ๋ฒ๊ฑฐ๋ก์ด (modifier) / ๋ฒ๊ฑฐ๋ก์ฐ์๊ฒ ์ง๋ง (hon. conditional) / ๋ฒ๊ฑฐ๋กญ๊ฒ ํ๋ค (to cause trouble).
Exercise 5 โ Mixed Mastery + Pitfall Patrol ๐ก๏ธ
A. โ ๊ตํ (when wanting money back) โ โ
๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ ์์ฒญํ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์
I'd like to request a refund. ๐
Answer
ํ๋ถ โ ํ๋ถ์ ์์ฒญํ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์. ๊ตํ = swap item; ํ๋ถ = money back. โ
B. โ ๋ฒ๊ฑฐ๋กญ์ด์ โ โ
๋ฒ๊ฑฐ๋ก๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์
It's troublesome. ๐
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์ โ ๋ฒ๊ฑฐ๋ก์์. ใ
-irregular. โ
C. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ ๊ฐ์ง๊ณ ์๋๋ฐ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด ๊ฐ๋ฅํ์ง ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ ์๊ณ ์ถ์ด์.
I brought the receipt and I definitely want to know if an exchange is possible. ๐งพ๐๐
Answer
์์์ฆ / ๊ตํ / ํ์ค โ ์์์ฆ์ ๊ฐ์ง๊ณ ์๋๋ฐ ๊ตํ์ด ๊ฐ๋ฅํ์ง ํ์คํ ์๊ณ ์ถ์ด์. โ
D. โ ์์ฒญํด์ (in formal written service) โ โ
์์ฒญ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋ค
I formally request. ๐
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ํฉ๋ โ ์์ฒญํฉ๋๋ค. Or ์์ฒญ๋๋ฆฝ๋๋ค. In formal customer service, -ํฉ๋๋ค is more appropriate. โ
E. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋ก์ฐ์๊ฒ ์ง๋ง, ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ ํ์ธํ๊ณ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํด ์ฃผ์๊ฒ ์ด์?
I know it may be inconvenient, but could you check the receipt and process the exchange? ๐๐งพ๐
Answer
๋ฒ๊ฑฐ / ์์์ฆ / ๊ตํ / ์ฒ๋ฆฌ โ ๋ฒ๊ฑฐ๋ก์ฐ์๊ฒ ์ง๋ง, ์์์ฆ์ ํ์ธํ๊ณ ๊ตํ์ ์ฒ๋ฆฌํด ์ฃผ์๊ฒ ์ด์? โ
F. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๊ฒ ํด ๋๋ ค์ ์ฃ์กํฉ๋๋ค. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ ์ฒ๋ฆฌํ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค.
I'm sorry for the trouble. We will process it clearly/definitely. ๐๐
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๋ฒ๊ฑฐ๋กญ / ํ์ค โ ๋ฒ๊ฑฐ๋กญ๊ฒ ํด ๋๋ ค์ ์ฃ์กํฉ๋๋ค. ํ์คํ ์ฒ๋ฆฌํ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. โ
G. ์ ํ์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ ๋ฌธ์ ๊ฐ ์์ด์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค.
There is definitely a problem with the product so I will formally request a refund. ๐๐
Answer
ํ์ค / ํ๋ถ / ์์ฒญ โ ํ์คํ ๋ฌธ์ ๊ฐ ์์ด์ ํ๋ถ์ ์์ฒญํ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. โ
H. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด ์์ผ์๋ฉด ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋ก์ธ ์ ์์ด์.
If there's no receipt, the exchange may be troublesome. ๐งพ๐๐
Answer
์์์ฆ / ๊ตํ / ๋ฒ๊ฑฐ โ ์์์ฆ์ด ์์ผ์๋ฉด ๊ตํ์ด ๋ฒ๊ฑฐ๋ก์ธ ์ ์์ด์. ๋ฒ๊ฑฐ๋กญ๋ค + -(์ผ)ใน ์ ์๋ค = may be troublesome. โ
I. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ ๋ณด์ฌ์ฃผ๊ณ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ๋๋ฐ ์์ง ์ฒ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ์ ๋์ด์.
I showed the receipt and formally requested a refund but it hasn't been processed yet. ๐งพ๐
Answer
์์์ฆ / ํ๋ถ / ์์ฒญ โ ์์์ฆ์ ๋ณด์ฌ์ฃผ๊ณ ํ๋ถ์ ์์ฒญํ๋๋ฐ ์์ง ์ฒ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ์ ๋์ด์. ์์ง = still/yet. โ
J. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋ก์ฐ์๊ฒ ์ง๋ง, ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ ํ์ธํ๊ณ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํด ์ฃผ์๋ฉด ๊ฐ์ฌํ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค.
I know it may be inconvenient, but I'd be grateful if you could clearly check the receipt and process the exchange. ๐๐๐งพ๐๐
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๋ฒ๊ฑฐ / ํ์ค / ์์์ฆ / ๊ตํ / ์ฒ๋ฆฌ โ ๋ฒ๊ฑฐ๋ก์ฐ์๊ฒ ์ง๋ง, ํ์คํ ์์์ฆ์ ํ์ธํ๊ณ ๊ตํ์ ์ฒ๋ฆฌํด ์ฃผ์๋ฉด ๊ฐ์ฌํ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. All five words. โ
Vocabulary Box โ Pitfall Recap
- โ ๊ตํ (money back) โ โ ํ๋ถ (๊ตํ = item swap)
- โ ๋ฒ๊ฑฐ๋กญ์ด์ โ โ ๋ฒ๊ฑฐ๋ก์์ (ใ -irregular)
- โ ์์ฒญํด์ (formal service) โ โ ์์ฒญํฉ๋๋ค/๋๋ฆฝ๋๋ค
- โ ์์์ฆ = golden ticket for any return
- โ ๋ฒ๊ฑฐ๋ก์ฐ์๊ฒ ์ง๋ง = the most powerful polite opener
Tip ๐ก Full return sentence: ์์์ฆ์ ๊ฐ์ง๊ณ ์๋๋ฐ, ๋ฒ๊ฑฐ๋ก์ฐ์๊ฒ ์ง๋ง ํ์คํ ํ์ธํ๊ณ ๊ตํ์ ์์ฒญ๋๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ถ์ต๋๋ค. All five words, perfectly natural. ๐งพโจ
๐ ๋ฐํ/๊ตํ ์ดํ ๋ง์คํฐ! ๐งพ Now you can navigate any Korean return or refund situation โ bring your ์์์ฆ, acknowledge the ๋ฒ๊ฑฐ๋ก์, confirm ํ์คํ, and ์์ฒญํ๋ค what you need. ๊ตํ์ด๋ ํ๋ถ์ด๋ โ ์ด์ ์์ ์๊ฒ ๋งํ ์ ์์ด์! ๐๐ช