South Korea취존 (chwijon)
noun · Informal · CHWEE-jon
Respect other people's taste. Said to someone sneering at what you like — the Korean equivalent of 'let people enjoy things'.
South Korea
Korean Slang for Filler Words
7 Korean slang terms for filler words, each with its meaning, how it is pronounced and an example of it in use.
The small words that hold speech together: hedges, tags, intensifiers and pause-fillers. Almost invisible to native speakers and almost impossible for learners.
대충 (daechung)
adverb · Colloquial · DEH-choong
Roughly; approximately; good enough. Of an estimate, and of work done to the minimum standard that will pass.
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어떡해 (eotteokhae)
phrase, interjection · Colloquial · uh-TTUK-eh
What do I do?; oh no. A cry of helplessness, said aloud to nobody in particular as often as to a listener.
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그냥 (geunyang)
adverb · Colloquial · GUH-nyang
Just; no particular reason. Declines to explain, politely: asked why you did something, 그냥 is a complete and accepted answer.
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진짜 (jinjja)
adverb, interjection · Colloquial · JIN-jja
Really; genuinely. The commonest intensifier in spoken Korean, dropped in front of almost anything.
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ㅋㅋㅋ (kekeke)
interjection · Informal · keh-keh-keh
Laughter in text — the Korean 'haha'. The number of characters scales with the laugh, from a polite single ㅋ to a screen of them.
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완전 (wanjeon)
adverb · Informal · WAN-jun
Totally; completely. Grammatically a noun meaning 'completeness', used adverbially in casual speech in a way prescriptivists object to and everyone under forty does anyway.