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What Does ~๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š” Mean? | Learn Real Korean Expressions ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท

by Sunny ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท 2026. 8. 15.

If you listen to Koreans talking with friends, family, or coworkers, you’ll hear **~๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š”** all the time.

ํ•œ๊ตญ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ์นœ๊ตฌ, ๊ฐ€์กฑ, ์ง์žฅ ๋™๋ฃŒ์™€ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋“ค์–ด๋ณด๋ฉด **‘~๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š”’**๋ผ๋Š” ํ‘œํ˜„์„ ์ •๋ง ์ž์ฃผ ๋“ค์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”.

It’s one of those expressions that can make your Korean sound much more natural.

ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด๋ฅผ ์กฐ๊ธˆ ๋” ์ž์—ฐ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ณ  ํ•œ๊ตญ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋งํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ๋‹ค๋ฉด ๊ผญ ์•Œ์•„๋‘๋ฉด ์ข‹์€ ํ‘œํ˜„์ด์—์š”.




๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท What does ~๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š” mean?

~๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š”** is often used when you want to give a reason, explain some background, or add information the listener may not know.

‘~๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š”’**๋Š” ์ฃผ๋กœ ์ด์œ ๋ฅผ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜, ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝ์„ ์•Œ๋ ค์ฃผ๊ฑฐ๋‚˜, ์ƒ๋Œ€๋ฐฉ์ด ๋ชจ๋ฅด๋Š” ์ •๋ณด๋ฅผ ๋ง๋ถ™์ผ ๋•Œ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•ด์š”.

Depending on the situation, it can feel like:

because / you see / the thing is / actually

์˜์–ด์˜ ํ•œ ๋‹จ์–ด์™€ ์ •ํ™•ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ผ์น˜ํ•˜๋Š” ํ‘œํ˜„์€ ์•„๋‹ˆ์—์š”. ์ƒํ™ฉ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ **because, you see, the thing is, actually**์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ์ž์—ฐ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ํ•ด์„ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”.


 


๐Ÿ’ฌ Example 1

I'm a bit busy today — I have an appointment, you see.

์˜ค๋Š˜ ์ข€ ๋ฐ”๋น ์š”, ์•ฝ์†์ด ์žˆ๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š”.

o-neul jom ba-ppa-yo, yak-sok-i it-geo-deun-yo.

์—ฌ๊ธฐ์—์„œ๋Š” ์™œ ์˜ค๋Š˜ ๋ฐ”์œ์ง€ ์ด์œ ๋ฅผ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์š”.

์˜ค๋Š˜ ์ข€ ๋ฐ”๋น ์š”.
I'm a bit busy today.

์•ฝ์†์ด ์žˆ๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š”.
I have an appointment, you see.

๐Ÿ’ก ์•ฝ์† (yak-sok) = appointment / plans / promise

ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด์—์„œ ‘์•ฝ์†’์€ ์นœ๊ตฌ์™€ ๋งŒ๋‚˜๊ธฐ๋กœ ํ•œ ๊ณ„ํš๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋ณ‘์›์ด๋‚˜ ์—…๋ฌด ์ผ์ •๊นŒ์ง€ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์ƒํ™ฉ์—์„œ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”.


 


 ๐Ÿฐ Example 2

This cake is really good — I made it, actually.

์ด ์ผ€์ดํฌ ์ง„์งœ ๋ง›์žˆ์–ด์š”, ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋งŒ๋“ค์—ˆ๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š”.

i ke-i-keu jin-jja ma-si-sseo-yo, je-ga man-deu-reot-geo-deun-yo.

Here, the speaker first says the cake is delicious and then adds some interesting background information: “I made it!”

์—ฌ๊ธฐ์„œ๋Š” ์ผ€์ดํฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ง›์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ•œ ๋’ค “์‚ฌ์‹ค ์ด๊ฑฐ ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋งŒ๋“ค์—ˆ์–ด์š”!”๋ผ๋Š” ์ •๋ณด๋ฅผ ์ž์—ฐ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ๋ง๋ถ™์ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์š”.

์ด ์ผ€์ดํฌ ์ง„์งœ ๋ง›์žˆ์–ด์š”.
This cake is really good.

์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋งŒ๋“ค์—ˆ๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š”.
I made it, actually.

๐Ÿ’ก ์ง„์งœ (jin-jja) = really

‘์ง„์งœ’ ์—ญ์‹œ ํ•œ๊ตญ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ์ผ์ƒ ๋Œ€ํ™”์—์„œ ์ •๋ง ๋งŽ์ด ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๋Š” ๋‹จ์–ด์˜ˆ์š”.




โœจ Why do Koreans use ~๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š” so much?

Korean conversations often use expressions that connect ideas naturally instead of simply stating facts one after another.

ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด ๋Œ€ํ™”์—์„œ๋Š” ์‚ฌ์‹ค๋งŒ ์งง๊ฒŒ ์ „๋‹ฌํ•˜๊ธฐ๋ณด๋‹ค ์•ž์—์„œ ํ•œ ๋ง์— **์ด์œ ๋‚˜ ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝ์„ ์ž์—ฐ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ์ด์–ด์ฃผ๋Š” ํ‘œํ˜„**์„ ๋งŽ์ด ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•ด์š”.

Compare these:

๋‘ ๋ฌธ์žฅ์„ ๋น„๊ตํ•ด ๋ณผ๊นŒ์š”?

์˜ค๋Š˜ ๋ฐ”๋น ์š”. ์•ฝ์†์ด ์žˆ์–ด์š”.
I'm busy today. I have an appointment.

VS.

์˜ค๋Š˜ ์ข€ ๋ฐ”๋น ์š”. ์•ฝ์†์ด ์žˆ๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š”.
I'm a bit busy today — I have an appointment, you see.

Both are correct, but the second one sounds more connected and conversational.

๋‘ ๋ฌธ์žฅ ๋ชจ๋‘ ๋งž๋Š” ํ‘œํ˜„์ด์ง€๋งŒ ‘~๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š”’๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•œ ๋‘ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ๋ฌธ์žฅ์ด ์‹ค์ œ ๋Œ€ํ™”์—์„œ๋Š” ์กฐ๊ธˆ ๋” ์ž์—ฐ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ๋“ค๋ ค์š”.




๐ŸŽง Korean Shadowing Practice

Now try saying these sentences out loud.

์ด์ œ ์ง์ ‘ ์†Œ๋ฆฌ ๋‚ด์„œ ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๋งํ•ด ๋ณด์„ธ์š”.

์˜ค๋Š˜ ์ข€ ๋ฐ”๋น ์š”, ์•ฝ์†์ด ์žˆ๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š”.

o-neul jom ba-ppa-yo, yak-sok-i it-geo-deun-yo.

์ด ์ผ€์ดํฌ ์ง„์งœ ๋ง›์žˆ์–ด์š”, ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋งŒ๋“ค์—ˆ๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š”.

i ke-i-keu jin-jja ma-si-sseo-yo, je-ga man-deu-reot-geo-deun-yo.

๐ŸŽง Listen → Repeat → Shadow

Don't worry about speaking perfectly at first. Try to copy the rhythm and intonation of natural Korean.

์ฒ˜์Œ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์™„๋ฒฝํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋งํ•˜๋ ค๊ณ  ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•„๋„ ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์•„์š”. ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด์˜ ๋ฆฌ๋“ฌ๊ณผ ์–ต์–‘์„ ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๋งํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์— ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•ด ๋ณด์„ธ์š”.




๐Ÿ“ Make Your Own Sentence!

Complete the sentence using ~๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š”.

์ด๋ฒˆ์—๋Š” ‘~๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š”’๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•ด์„œ ์ง์ ‘ ๋ฌธ์žฅ์„ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด ๋ณด์„ธ์š”.

์˜ค๋Š˜ ________. ________๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š”.

For example:

์˜ˆ๋ฅผ ๋“ค๋ฉด,

์˜ค๋Š˜ ์ผ์ฐ ์ž๋ ค๊ณ  ํ•ด์š”. ๋‚ด์ผ ์ผ์ฐ ์ผ์–ด๋‚˜์•ผ ํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š”.

I'm going to bed early today because I have to wake up early tomorrow.

Can you make your own sentence using ~๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š”**? ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท

์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„๋„ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋„ฃ์–ด์„œ ‘~๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š”’ ๋ฌธ์žฅ์„ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด ๋ณด์„ธ์š”!




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Textbook Korean is important, but learning how Koreans actually speak will help you sound much more natural.

๊ต๊ณผ์„œ์—์„œ ๋ฐฐ์šฐ๋Š” ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด๋„ ์ค‘์š”ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ํ•œ๊ตญ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ์‹ค์ œ ์ƒํ™œ์—์„œ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๋Š” ํ‘œํ˜„์„ ์•Œ๊ฒŒ ๋˜๋ฉด ํ›จ์”ฌ ์ž์—ฐ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ๋Œ€ํ™”ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”.

Here at Sunny in Korea, you can learn real Korean through Korean expressions, food, culture, and everyday life.

Sunny in Korea์—์„œ๋Š” ์‹ค์ œ ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด ํ‘œํ˜„๋ฟ๋งŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ํ•œ๊ตญ ์Œ์‹, ๋ฌธํ™”, ์ผ์ƒ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์žฌ๋ฏธ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด๋ฅผ ๋ฐฐ์šธ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”.

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