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Vocab: Searching for a Room

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๋ฐฉ์„ ๊ตฌํ•˜๋‹ค / ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ / ์›”์„ธ / ๊นจ๋—ํ•˜๋‹ค / ์กฐ๊ฑด
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TL;DR ๐Ÿฆ„
  • ๐Ÿ  ๋ฐฉ์„ ๊ตฌํ•˜๋‹ค = to look for a room/place to live โ€” the action; ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ = deposit; ์›”์„ธ = monthly rent โ€” the money words
  • โœจ ๊นจ๋—ํ•˜๋‹ค = to be clean โ€” the most common adjective when viewing rooms
  • ๐Ÿ“‹ ์กฐ๊ฑด = conditions/requirements โ€” what you need the place to have
๐Ÿ”Š
๐ŸŽง Iru Helper Note โ€” Head to the Korean Helper Widgets and hear today's vocabulary at natural speed. ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ์ด ์–ผ๋งˆ์˜ˆ์š”? is a question you'll use in real life. ๐Ÿ 

๐ŸŒˆ The Big Picture

Room-searching Korean follows a practical sequence: you ๋ฐฉ์„ ๊ตฌํ•˜๋‹ค (look for a room), ask about ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ (deposit) and ์›”์„ธ (monthly rent), check if it's ๊นจ๋—ํ•˜๋‹ค (clean), and confirm the ์กฐ๊ฑด (conditions) match what you need. These five words cover the entire rental conversation arc in Korea โ€” whether you're searching on ์ง๋ฐฉ, asking a ๋ถ€๋™์‚ฐ, or talking to a landlord directly.

๐ŸŽจ The Core Searching for a Room Family

1. ๋ฐฉ์„ ๊ตฌํ•˜๋‹ค โ€” to look for/find a room or place to live ๐Ÿ 
๋ฐฉ์„ ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์š” = I'm looking for a room. ๋ฐฉ์„ ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ธฐ ์–ด๋ ค์›Œ์š” = it's hard to find a room. ๊ตฌํ•˜๋‹ค = to seek/obtain. Not ์ฐพ๋‹ค (to search/find) โ€” ๊ตฌํ•˜๋‹ค implies actively seeking to secure something.
2. ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ โ€” security deposit ๐Ÿ’ฐ
The lump-sum deposit paid upfront in Korea (often very large โ€” millions of won). ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ์ด ์–ผ๋งˆ์˜ˆ์š”? = How much is the deposit? ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ์„ ๋‚ด๋‹ค = to pay the deposit. ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ์„ ๋Œ๋ ค๋ฐ›๋‹ค = to get the deposit back.
3. ์›”์„ธ โ€” monthly rent ๐Ÿ“…
์›”์„ธ๊ฐ€ ์–ผ๋งˆ์˜ˆ์š”? = How much is the monthly rent? ์›”์„ธ๋ฅผ ๋‚ด๋‹ค = to pay rent. ์›”์„ธ๊ฐ€ ๋น„์‹ธ๋‹ค/์‹ธ๋‹ค = the rent is expensive/cheap. Note: ์ „์„ธ (large deposit, no monthly rent) is different from ์›”์„ธ.
4. ๊นจ๋—ํ•˜๋‹ค โ€” to be clean, tidy ๐Ÿงน
๋ฐฉ์ด ๊นจ๋—ํ•ด์š” = the room is clean. ๊นจ๋—ํ•œ ๋ฐฉ = a clean room. ๊นจ๋—ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์“ฐ๋‹ค = to use cleanly/tidily. Always positive โ€” the most-used adjective when viewing a room.
5. ์กฐ๊ฑด โ€” conditions, requirements, terms ๐Ÿ“‹
์กฐ๊ฑด์ด ๋งž๋‹ค = the conditions match. ์กฐ๊ฑด์ด ์ข‹๋‹ค = the conditions are good. ์กฐ๊ฑด์„ ํ™•์ธํ•˜๋‹ค = to check the conditions. Covers: price, location, size, included facilities โ€” everything you need to be satisfied.

๐Ÿ› ๏ธ How They Work in a Sentence

์„œ์šธ์—์„œ ๋ฐฉ์„ ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ์ด ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๋†’์•„์„œ ๊ณ ๋ฏผ์ด์—์š”.
I'm looking for a room in Seoul but the deposit is too high so I'm deliberating. ๐Ÿ ๐Ÿ’ฐ
โ€” ๋ฐฉ์„ ๊ตฌํ•˜๋‹ค + ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ์ด ๋†’๋‹ค; -๋Š”๋ฐ = background clause; ๊ณ ๋ฏผ์ด๋‹ค = to be deliberating
์›”์„ธ๋Š” ์ €๋ ดํ•˜๊ณ  ๋ฐฉ๋„ ๊นจ๋—ํ•ด์„œ ๋งˆ์Œ์— ๋“ค์–ด์š”.
The monthly rent is affordable and the room is clean so I like it. ๐Ÿ“…โœจ
โ€” ์›”์„ธ + ๊นจ๋—ํ•˜๋‹ค; -์•„/์–ด์„œ causal; ๋งˆ์Œ์— ๋“ค๋‹ค = to like/be pleased with
์ด ๋ฐฉ์€ ์กฐ๊ฑด์ด ๋‹ค ๋งž์•„์„œ ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๊ณ„์•ฝํ•˜๋ ค๊ณ ์š”.
The conditions of this room all match so I'm going to sign the contract right away. ๐Ÿ“‹
โ€” ์กฐ๊ฑด์ด ๋งž๋‹ค; ๊ณ„์•ฝํ•˜๋‹ค = to sign a contract; -๋ ค๊ณ ์š” = I'm planning to

๐Ÿงฉ General Formation Rule

  • ๋ฐฉ์„ ๊ตฌํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ regular: ๊ตฌํ•ด์š” / ๊ตฌํ–ˆ์–ด์š” / ๊ตฌํ•˜๋Š” ์ค‘์ด์—์š” / ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ธฐ ์–ด๋ ต๋‹ค
  • ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ โ†’ noun: ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ์ด / ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ์„ / ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ์ด ์–ผ๋งˆ์˜ˆ์š”
  • ์›”์„ธ โ†’ noun: ์›”์„ธ๊ฐ€ / ์›”์„ธ๋ฅผ / ์›”์„ธ๋ฅผ ๋‚ด๋‹ค / ์›”์„ธ๊ฐ€ ๋น„์‹ธ๋‹ค
  • ๊นจ๋—ํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ ํ•˜๋‹ค adjective: ๊นจ๋—ํ•ด์š” / ๊นจ๋—ํ•œ ๋ฐฉ / ๊นจ๋—ํ•˜๊ฒŒ
  • ์กฐ๊ฑด โ†’ noun: ์กฐ๊ฑด์ด / ์กฐ๊ฑด์„ / ์กฐ๊ฑด์ด ๋งž๋‹ค / ์กฐ๊ฑด์„ ํ™•์ธํ•˜๋‹ค

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๐Ÿชž Synonym Alert

  • ๋ฐฉ์„ ๊ตฌํ•˜๋‹ค โ‰ˆ ๋ฐฉ์„ ์ฐพ๋‹ค โ€” ์ฐพ๋‹ค = to search/look for; ๊ตฌํ•˜๋‹ค = to actively seek to obtain/secure
  • ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ โ‰ˆ ์ „์„ธ๊ธˆ โ€” ์ „์„ธ๊ธˆ = the large deposit for jeonse (no monthly rent); ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ = general deposit (both rental types)
  • ์›”์„ธ โ‰ˆ ์ž„๋Œ€๋ฃŒ โ€” ์ž„๋Œ€๋ฃŒ = rental fee (formal/legal); ์›”์„ธ = monthly rent (everyday)
  • ๊นจ๋—ํ•˜๋‹ค โ‰ˆ ์ฒญ๊ฒฐํ•˜๋‹ค โ€” ์ฒญ๊ฒฐํ•˜๋‹ค = hygienic/clean (more formal); ๊นจ๋—ํ•˜๋‹ค = clean (everyday)
  • ์กฐ๊ฑด โ‰ˆ ์š”๊ตฌ ์‚ฌํ•ญ โ€” ์š”๊ตฌ ์‚ฌํ•ญ = requirements (formal); ์กฐ๊ฑด = conditions/terms (everyday)

โš ๏ธ Pitfalls to Dodge

โŒ ๋ฐฉ์„ ์ฐพ์•„์š” (when you mean actively securing a place) โ†’ โœ… ๋ฐฉ์„ ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์š” โ€” ๊ตฌํ•˜๋‹ค implies the full effort of searching AND intending to secure.
โŒ ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ์„ ์คฌ์–ด์š” โ†’ โœ… ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ์„ ๋ƒˆ์–ด์š” โ€” ๋‚ด๋‹ค (to pay/hand over) is the natural verb with ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ/์›”์„ธ, not ์ฃผ๋‹ค.
โŒ ์›”์„ธ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์–ด์š” โ†’ โœ… ์›”์„ธ๊ฐ€ ์–ผ๋งˆ์˜ˆ์š”? / ์›”์„ธ๋ฅผ ๋‚ด์š” โ€” ์žˆ์–ด์š” sounds like you're just confirming existence; ์–ผ๋งˆ์˜ˆ์š” / ๋‚ด๋‹ค are the natural collocations.
โŒ ์กฐ๊ฑด์ด ์ข‹์•„์š” (vague) โ†’ โœ… Specify what: ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์กฐ๊ฑด์ด ์ข‹์•„์š” / ์œ„์น˜ ์กฐ๊ฑด์ด ๋งž์•„์š” โ€” ์กฐ๊ฑด is more natural when you say what kind.
๋ฐฉ์„ ๊ตฌํ•  ๋•Œ๋Š” ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ, ์›”์„ธ, ์กฐ๊ฑด์„ ๊ผผ๊ผผํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ™•์ธํ•˜๊ณ , ๊นจ๋—ํ•œ์ง€๋„ ๊ผญ ๋ด์•ผ ํ•ด์š”! ๐Ÿ ๐Ÿ’ฐ๐Ÿ“‹โœจ
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Instructions: Fill in each blank with the correct word or form.
1. ์ง€๊ธˆ ์„œ์šธ์—์„œ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ ์žˆ์–ด์š”.
I'm currently looking for a room in Seoul. ๐Ÿ 
Answer
๋ฐฉ์„ ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  โ†’ ๋ฐฉ์„ ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์š”.
2. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด ์–ผ๋งˆ์˜ˆ์š”?
How much is the deposit? ๐Ÿ’ฐ
Answer
๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ โ†’ ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ์ด ์–ผ๋งˆ์˜ˆ์š”?
3. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๊ฐ€ ๋งค๋‹ฌ 50๋งŒ ์›์ด์—์š”.
The monthly rent is 500,000 won per month. ๐Ÿ“…
Answer
์›”์„ธ โ†’ ์›”์„ธ๊ฐ€ ๋งค๋‹ฌ 50๋งŒ ์›์ด์—์š”.
4. ๋ฐฉ์ด ์ •๋ง ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•ด์„œ ๋งˆ์Œ์— ๋“ค์–ด์š”.
The room is really clean so I like it. โœจ
Answer
๊นจ๋— โ†’ ๊นจ๋—ํ•ด์„œ ๋งˆ์Œ์— ๋“ค์–ด์š”.
5. ๋ชจ๋“  ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด ๋งž์•„์„œ ๊ณ„์•ฝํ•  ๊ฑฐ์˜ˆ์š”.
All the conditions match so I'm going to sign the contract. ๐Ÿ“‹
Answer
์กฐ๊ฑด โ†’ ์กฐ๊ฑด์ด ๋งž์•„์„œ.
6. ์ด์‚ฌํ•  ๋•Œ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์„ ๋Œ๋ ค๋ฐ›์•˜์–ด์š”.
When I moved out I got the deposit back. ๐Ÿ’ฐ
Answer
๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ โ†’ ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ์„ ๋Œ๋ ค๋ฐ›์•˜์–ด์š”. ๋Œ๋ ค๋ฐ›๋‹ค = to get back.
7. ๋ฐฉ์„ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์ƒ๊ฐ๋ณด๋‹ค ์–ด๋ ค์›Œ์š”.
Finding a room is harder than I thought. ๐Ÿ 
Answer
๊ตฌํ•˜ โ†’ ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์–ด๋ ค์›Œ์š”.
8. ๋งค๋‹ฌ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋ฅผ ๊ผญ ๋‚ด์•ผ ํ•ด์š”.
You must pay the monthly rent every month. ๐Ÿ“…
Answer
์›”์„ธ โ†’ ์›”์„ธ๋ฅผ ๋‚ด์•ผ ํ•ด์š”. ๋‚ด๋‹ค = to pay.
9. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด ์ข‹์œผ๋ฉด ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๊ณ„์•ฝํ•˜์„ธ์š”.
If the conditions are good sign the contract right away. ๐Ÿ“‹
Answer
์กฐ๊ฑด โ†’ ์กฐ๊ฑด์ด ์ข‹์œผ๋ฉด.
10. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•˜๊ณ  ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋„ ์‹ธ๊ณ  ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋„ ๋‹ค ๋งž์œผ๋ฉด ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•˜์„ธ์š”!
If it's clean, the rent is cheap, and all conditions match, start looking right away! ๐Ÿ โœจ๐Ÿ“…๐Ÿ“‹
Answer
๊นจ๋— / ์›”์„ธ / ์กฐ๊ฑด / ๋ฐฉ์„ ๊ตฌ โ†’ ๊นจ๋—ํ•˜๊ณ  ์›”์„ธ๋„ ์‹ธ๊ณ  ์กฐ๊ฑด๋„ ๋‹ค ๋งž์œผ๋ฉด ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๋ฐฉ์„ ๊ตฌํ•˜์„ธ์š”! โœ…
๐Ÿ“š
Vocabulary Box
  • ๋ฐฉ์„ ๊ตฌํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to look for a room
  • ๋ฐฉ์„ ๊ตฌํ•˜๋Š” ์ค‘์ด์—์š” โ†’ currently looking
  • ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ โ†’ security deposit
  • ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ์„ ๋‚ด๋‹ค โ†’ to pay the deposit
  • ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ์„ ๋Œ๋ ค๋ฐ›๋‹ค โ†’ to get deposit back
  • ์›”์„ธ โ†’ monthly rent
  • ์›”์„ธ๋ฅผ ๋‚ด๋‹ค โ†’ to pay rent
  • ์›”์„ธ๊ฐ€ ๋น„์‹ธ๋‹ค/์‹ธ๋‹ค โ†’ rent is expensive/cheap
  • ๊นจ๋—ํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to be clean
  • ๊นจ๋—ํ•œ ๋ฐฉ โ†’ a clean room
  • ์กฐ๊ฑด์ด ๋งž๋‹ค โ†’ conditions match
  • ์กฐ๊ฑด์„ ํ™•์ธํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to check conditions
  • ๊ณ„์•ฝํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to sign a contract
  • ๋ถ€๋™์‚ฐ โ†’ real estate agent/office
  • ์ „์„ธ โ†’ jeonse (large deposit, no monthly rent)
Memory tips ๐Ÿ’ก
  • ๊ตฌํ•˜๋‹ค = seek to obtain (more active than ์ฐพ๋‹ค)
  • ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ + ๋‚ด๋‹ค โœ… (not ์ฃผ๋‹ค)
  • ์›”์„ธ + ๋‚ด๋‹ค โœ…
  • ์กฐ๊ฑด = price + location + facilities + everything

๐Ÿš€
Want more reps? Visit the Practice Hub when you're ready! ๐Ÿš€
๐Ÿ“ฆ
๐ŸŽฏ Practice Hub โ€” Vocab: Searching for a Room
๋ฐฉ ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘! ๐Ÿ  This Practice Hub drills all five words โ€” ๋ฐฉ์„ ๊ตฌํ•˜๋‹ค, ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ, ์›”์„ธ, ๊นจ๋—ํ•˜๋‹ค, ์กฐ๊ฑด โ€” across four concise exercises. By the end you'll handle any Korean room-searching conversation naturally. ๐Ÿ’ฐ
๐Ÿ”Š Audio reminder: Use the Korean Helper Widgets to hear any sentence.

Exercise 1 โ€” The Hunt ๐Ÿ 

A. ์š”์ฆ˜ ์›๋ฃธ์„ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ ์žˆ์–ด์š”.
These days I'm looking for a studio. ๐Ÿ 
Answer
๋ฐฉ์„ ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  โ†’ ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์š”.
B. ์ข‹์€ ๋ฐฉ์„ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์‰ฝ์ง€ ์•Š์•„์š”.
Finding a good room isn't easy. ๐Ÿ 
Answer
๊ตฌํ•˜ โ†’ ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์‰ฝ์ง€ ์•Š์•„์š”.
C. ๋ถ€๋™์‚ฐ์—์„œ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ–ˆ์–ด์š”.
I told the realtor I'm looking for a room. ๐Ÿ 
Answer
๋ฐฉ์„ ๊ตฌํ•˜ โ†’ ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ–ˆ์–ด์š”.
D. ์ด ์•ฑ์œผ๋กœ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ๋” ํŽธํ•ด์กŒ์–ด์š”.
Finding a room has become easier with this app. ๐Ÿ 
Answer
๋ฐฉ์„ ๊ตฌํ•˜ โ†’ ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ๋” ํŽธํ•ด์กŒ์–ด์š”.
๐Ÿ“š
๋ฐฉ์„ ๊ตฌํ•˜๋‹ค forms:
  • ๋ฐฉ์„ ๊ตฌํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to look for a room
  • ๋ฐฉ์„ ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์š” โ†’ currently looking
  • ๋ฐฉ์„ ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์–ด๋ ต๋‹ค โ†’ hard to find a room
  • ์›๋ฃธ โ†’ studio apartment
  • ๋ถ€๋™์‚ฐ โ†’ real estate agent/office

Exercise 2 โ€” Money Talk ๐Ÿ’ฐ๐Ÿ“…

A. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด 500๋งŒ ์›์ด์—์š”.
The deposit is 5,000,000 won. ๐Ÿ’ฐ
Answer
๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ โ†’ ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ์ด 500๋งŒ ์›์ด์—์š”.
B. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๊ฐ€ ํ•œ ๋‹ฌ์— 40๋งŒ ์›์ด์—์š”.
The monthly rent is 400,000 won a month. ๐Ÿ“…
Answer
์›”์„ธ โ†’ ์›”์„ธ๊ฐ€ ํ•œ ๋‹ฌ์— 40๋งŒ ์›์ด์—์š”.
C. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์„ ๋‚ด๊ณ  ์ด์‚ฌํ–ˆ์–ด์š”.
I paid the deposit and moved in. ๐Ÿ’ฐ
Answer
๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ โ†’ ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ์„ ๋‚ด๊ณ . ๋‚ด๋‹ค = to pay.
D. ๋งค๋‹ฌ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋ฅผ ๊ผฌ๋ฐ•๊ผฌ๋ฐ• ๋‚ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์š”.
I pay the monthly rent without fail every month. ๐Ÿ“…
Answer
์›”์„ธ โ†’ ์›”์„ธ๋ฅผ ๊ผฌ๋ฐ•๊ผฌ๋ฐ• ๋‚ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์š”.
E. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋ณด๋‹ค ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๊ฐ€ ๋” ์ค‘์š”ํ•ด์š”.
Monthly rent is more important than the deposit. ๐Ÿ’ฐ๐Ÿ“…
Answer
๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ / ์›”์„ธ โ†’ ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ๋ณด๋‹ค ์›”์„ธ๊ฐ€ ๋” ์ค‘์š”ํ•ด์š”. โœ…
๐Ÿ“š
๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ + ์›”์„ธ collocations:
  • ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ์„ ๋‚ด๋‹ค โ†’ pay deposit โœ…
  • ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ์„ ๋Œ๋ ค๋ฐ›๋‹ค โ†’ get deposit back โœ…
  • ์›”์„ธ๋ฅผ ๋‚ด๋‹ค โ†’ pay rent โœ…
  • ์›”์„ธ๊ฐ€ ๋น„์‹ธ๋‹ค โ†’ rent is expensive โœ…
  • ์ „์„ธ โ†’ jeonse (large deposit, no rent)
Tip ๐Ÿ’ก ๋‚ด๋‹ค = the natural verb for paying rent/deposit. NOT ์ฃผ๋‹ค.

Exercise 3 โ€” Viewing the Room ๐Ÿงน๐Ÿ“‹

A. ๋ฐฉ์ด ์ •๋ง ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•ด์š”.
The room is really clean. ๐Ÿงน
Answer
๊นจ๋— โ†’ ๊นจ๋—ํ•ด์š”.
B. ์ด ๋ฐฉ์˜ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์›ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๊ณผ ๋‹ฌ๋ผ์š”.
The conditions of this room are different from what I want. ๐Ÿ“‹
Answer
์กฐ๊ฑด โ†’ ์กฐ๊ฑด์ด ๋‹ฌ๋ผ์š”.
C. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•œ ๋ฐฉ์„ ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š”.
I want to find a clean room. ๐Ÿงน
Answer
๊นจ๋— โ†’ ๊นจ๋—ํ•œ ๋ฐฉ์„ ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š”.
D. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด ๋‹ค ๋งž์œผ๋ฉด ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๊ณ„์•ฝํ•ด์š”.
If all conditions match I'll sign the contract right away. ๐Ÿ“‹
Answer
์กฐ๊ฑด โ†’ ์กฐ๊ฑด์ด ๋‹ค ๋งž์œผ๋ฉด.
E. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๊ณ  ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋„ ๋งž์•„์„œ ๋งˆ์Œ์— ๋“ค์–ด์š”.
It's clean and the conditions match so I like it. ๐Ÿงน๐Ÿ“‹
Answer
๊นจ๋—ํ•˜ / ์กฐ๊ฑด โ†’ ๊นจ๋—ํ•˜๊ณ  ์กฐ๊ฑด๋„ ๋งž์•„์„œ ๋งˆ์Œ์— ๋“ค์–ด์š”. โœ…
๐Ÿ“š
๊นจ๋—ํ•˜๋‹ค + ์กฐ๊ฑด:
  • ๋ฐฉ์ด ๊นจ๋—ํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ room is clean
  • ๊นจ๋—ํ•œ ๋ฐฉ โ†’ clean room (modifier)
  • ๊นจ๋—ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์“ฐ๋‹ค โ†’ to use tidily
  • ์กฐ๊ฑด์ด ๋งž๋‹ค โ†’ conditions match
  • ์กฐ๊ฑด์ด ์ข‹๋‹ค โ†’ conditions are good
  • ๊ณ„์•ฝํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to sign a contract
  • ๋งˆ์Œ์— ๋“ค๋‹ค โ†’ to like/be pleased with

Exercise 4 โ€” Mixed Mastery + Pitfall Patrol ๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ

A. โŒ ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ์„ ์คฌ์–ด์š” โ†’ โœ… ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ์„ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์–ด์š”
I paid the deposit. ๐Ÿ’ฐ
Answer
๋ƒˆ โ†’ ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ์„ ๋ƒˆ์–ด์š”. ๋‚ด๋‹ค = natural verb for paying deposit/rent. โœ…
B. โŒ ๋ฐฉ์„ ์ฐพ์•„์š” (when actively securing) โ†’ โœ… ๋ฐฉ์„ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ ์žˆ์–ด์š”
I'm looking for a room (to secure one). ๐Ÿ 
Answer
๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  โ†’ ๋ฐฉ์„ ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์š”. ๊ตฌํ•˜๋‹ค = seek to obtain. โœ…
C. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๊ณ  ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋„ ์‹ธ๊ณ  ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋„ ๋งž์œผ๋ฉด, ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์„ ๋‚ด๊ณ  ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๊ณ„์•ฝํ•˜์„ธ์š”!
If it's clean, the rent is cheap, and conditions match โ€” pay the deposit and sign right away! ๐Ÿงน๐Ÿ“…๐Ÿ“‹๐Ÿ’ฐ
Answer
๊นจ๋—ํ•˜ / ์›”์„ธ / ์กฐ๊ฑด / ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ โ†’ ๊นจ๋—ํ•˜๊ณ  ์›”์„ธ๋„ ์‹ธ๊ณ  ์กฐ๊ฑด๋„ ๋งž์œผ๋ฉด, ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ์„ ๋‚ด๊ณ  ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๊ณ„์•ฝํ•˜์„ธ์š”! All five words. โœ…
๐Ÿ“š
Pitfall Recap
  • โŒ ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ์„ ์ฃผ๋‹ค โ†’ โœ… ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ์„ ๋‚ด๋‹ค
  • โŒ ๋ฐฉ์„ ์ฐพ์•„์š” (when securing) โ†’ โœ… ๋ฐฉ์„ ๊ตฌํ•ด์š”
  • โŒ ์›”์„ธ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์–ด์š” โ†’ โœ… ์›”์„ธ๊ฐ€ ์–ผ๋งˆ์˜ˆ์š”?
  • โœ… ์กฐ๊ฑด์ด ๋งž๋‹ค / ๊นจ๋—ํ•œ ๋ฐฉ
Full room sentence:
๋ฐฉ์„ ๊ตฌํ•˜๋ ค๋ฉด ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ, ์›”์„ธ, ์กฐ๊ฑด์„ ํ™•์ธํ•˜๊ณ  ๊นจ๋—ํ•œ์ง€ ๊ผญ ๋ด์š”! ๐Ÿ โœจ
๐ŸŽ‰ ๋ฐฉ ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ธฐ ์–ดํœ˜ ๋งˆ์Šคํ„ฐ! ๐Ÿ  Now you can handle any Korean room-searching conversation โ€” ๋ฐฉ์„ ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ , ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ๊ณผ ์›”์„ธ๋ฅผ ํ™•์ธํ•˜๊ณ , ๊นจ๋—ํ•œ์ง€ ๋ณด๊ณ , ์กฐ๊ฑด์ด ๋งž์œผ๋ฉด ๊ณ„์•ฝํ•ด์š”! ๐Ÿ’ฐโœจ