Word Of The Day
Submitted by Annyong on Sun, 02/08/2009 - 04:00
(changes every day)
More Korean word-of-the-day entries
These words & translations are from the Fun Korean Meetup group:
- "Help!" - "doh-ah chu-say-o" (chusayo means please).
- Happy New Year - Say-hay boke mahn-he pah-du-say-oh -
- noraebang - ??? - "song room" or as known in Japanese: karaoke
- Big storms one week made the word of the week to be: Nway-ooh - (??) - which means thunderstorm. The verb to rain is bee-oh-da (? ?? or ?? ??).
- yootnoli ("???") - a traditional Korean game played with 4 sticks.
- "I miss you" (?? ???) - pogo shipoyo.
- Saturday, pronounced "tow-yo-il"
- Skinship - a Konglish word for touching, aka touching on the dance floor. The slang word for this is ???? (pronounced bubi bubi).
- Pom - spring (as in springtime).
- slang term: seng-kka, which is the response to someone who is ignoring you
- Jan 2009 - "Inauguration" in Korean is Chui-im-shik - written in Korean here