If you want to learn Korean then I'm pretty sure you know the expression 안녕하세요 is right?
안녕하세요 can mean a lot of different things like:
Hello./Hi./How are you?/Good morning./ Good afternoon./Good evening.
안녕하세요 is the most common way of greeting someone in Korean but what does it really mean?
안녕 = well-being, peace, health
하세요 = you do, do you?, please do
So originally, 안녕하세요 was originally a question asking "Are you doing well?", "Are you at peace?", or "Are you living well?", but since its been used as a common expression, its meaning began to shift into a more casual greeting.
☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
Another common Korean expression is 감사합니다 or thank you.
감사 = appreciation, thankfulness, gratitude
합니다 = I do, I am doing
In English, we always include the object 'you' but as you can see with the origin of the word, it did not include 'you'.
That is because in Korean especially in daily conversations and expressions, 'you' is omitted if it is already understandable that 'you' is the object.
Example Conversation:
👨: 안녕하세요. [Hello.]
👱♂️: 안녕하세요. [Hi.]
👨: 여기요. [Here you go.]
👱♂️: 감사합니다. [Thank you.]
☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
See you on the next lesson! 💜
YOU ARE READING
Learn Korean with Me
No FicciónDisclaimer: I am not Korean but just learning how. I'll just share here what I know. Feel free to ask in the questions, I'll try my best to answer them.
