Ready-made phrases
Which expressions can you use as a whole?
의미
A ready-made phrase is a familiar group of words you can use as a whole in a common situation. It can greet someone, make an offer, or provide a sentence frame with space for new information. Languages have their own phrases, and a phrase in one language may have no fixed counterpart in another. Unlike Words that go together, this block focuses on a complete familiar expression or a reusable sentence frame.
알아보는 방법
Notice expressions that speakers repeatedly use for the same everyday task, sometimes keeping the whole phrase and sometimes changing just one part.
모국어에서는
Korean uses familiar whole expressions for greetings, meals, thanking, and starting a shared task. Many have a conventional polite ending and are chosen for the situation rather than built by translating each word. Learn who can say an expression to whom and when, as well as its wording.
잘 먹겠습니다. (Jal meokgesseumnida.)
This is said before eating, especially to someone providing the meal.
실례합니다. (Sillyehamnida.)
A polite expression for interrupting, approaching someone, or passing through.
잘 부탁드립니다. (Jal butakdeurimnida.)
Common when beginning a working relationship; it asks for goodwill and cooperation.