Greetings

Question 1

안녕하세요

Answer 1

Informal but polite hello

> people you don’t know/just contacted etc.
literally “are you in/at peace?”

Question 2

안녕

Answer 2

Informal, more impolite hello

> friends, people younger than you

Question 3

안녕하십니까

Answer 3

Very polite and formal hello

> use only with unknown, respectable or older people or when you public speak

Question 4

안녕히 가세요

Answer 4

Goodbye

> use it only when you are greeting someone who is leaving you and who will not remain in the place you are.
literally = go in peace/peacefully
unknown, important, respectable and older people

Question 5

잘 가

Answer 5

Goodbye

> less formal and polite so use it with friends or younger people.
literally = go well

Question 6

안녕히 계세요

Answer 6

Goodbye

> used only to greet someone who is remaining in a place from which you are leaving
literally “remain in peace/peacefully”
formal, polite, older, important, respectable, uninown people

Question 7

잘 있어

Answer 7

Goodbye

> literally = “remain well”
other way to greet someone remaining in place you’re leaving
informal, impolite, friends or younger

Question 8

감사합니다

Answer 8

Most widespread “thank you”

> literally = “i am grateful”
more formal

Question 9

고맙습니다

Answer 9

Informal thank you

Question 10

고마워

Answer 10

Casual thank you > friends or younger

Question 11

죄송합니다

Answer 11

Most polite and formal I’m sorry

> only with older, respectable or unknown people

Question 12

미안합니다

Answer 12

I am sorry

> use only with older, respectable or unknown people.
less formal and polite than 죄송합니다 but still always polite and formal.

> 죄송합니다 is to be preferred.

Question 13

미안해

Answer 13

Casual I’m sorry

> friends or younger people

Question 14

(만나서) 반갑습니다

Answer 14

Formal nice to meet you

> used when you meet a person, not necessarily for the first time
literally = “I am happy (because I am meeting you)”
respectable and older people

Question 15

처음 뵙겠습니다

Answer 15

Formal nice to meet you (for the first time)

> used only when you meet a person for the first time
literally = “I am meeting/seeing you for the first time”
unknown, older and respectable people.

Question 16

반가워

Answer 16

Casual nice to meet you

> friends or younger people
literally = “I am meeting you”.

Question 17

실례합니다

Answer 17

Excuse me

> everybody
formal and polite

Question 18

천만에요

Answer 18

You’re welcome

> everybody

Question 19

잘 먹겠습니다

Answer 19

> say when you are going to start having breakfast/lunch/dinner
used in each situation
could be translated like “I am going to eat well” or also “Eat well”

Question 20

잘 먹었습니다

Answer 20

> used after having finished the breakfast/lunch/dinner

> means “I have eaten well”

Question 21

안녕히 주무세요

Answer 21

Very polite way to wish good night

> older or respectable people
“Sleep peacefully/in peace”

Question 22

잘 자

Answer 22

Very casual way to wish good night

> friends or younger people
“Sleep well”.

Question 23

다녀오겠습니다

Answer 23

> When you are going out, you must say to your parents (or other people inside the house) that you will come back

> “I will come back home”

Question 24

다녀왔습니다

Answer 24

> when you come back home, you must say that you are at home

> “I have come back home”

Question 25

네

Answer 25

Most common way to say “yes”

> use it also if you have to say that you have understood something

Question 26

예

Answer 26

Less widespread, much more formal “yes”

Question 27

아니
아니요
아닙니다

Answer 27

Most widespread ways to say no

1. very impolite — 3. very formal and polite