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Learning to say ‘I love you’ in Korean is actually quite simple, but because of the way this special phrase can be used in many different contexts, learning its direct translation is not enough. We also need to learn the various ways this phrase can be used.<\/p>\n
So in this article, we’ll first look at the most common ways of saying ‘I love you’ in Korean and how the expression is used in practice. Then, we’ll look at how to say ‘I don’t love you’, and how to say someone is a person we love.<\/p>\n
The phrase for ‘I love you’ in Korean is:<\/p>\n
The word \uc0ac\ub791<\/a> is a noun that means ‘love’ and the verb for ‘to love’ is \uc0ac\ub791\ud558\ub2e4 (saranghada).<\/p>\n \uc0ac\ub791\ud574 is the casual form of \uc0ac\ub791\ud558\ub2e4. So this sentence only has the verb, and there is no ‘I’ or ‘you’ in the sentence. Forming sentences with just the verb is a common feature of Korean language, and sentences are formed in this way because based on the context, it’s very clear who’s expressing their love to whom.<\/p>\n However, if you wanted to make it clear that it was you that loved the other person and you wanted to include the pronouns ‘I’ and ‘you’, then you can say:<\/p>\n \ub09c means ‘I’ and \ub108\ub97c means ‘you’, so this sentence literally means ‘I love you’.<\/p>\n \uc0ac\ub791\ud574 is the casual form of ‘I love you’, and when we express our love to our partner, we use the casual language because we already have a close relationship with them. Also, when close friends say ‘I love you’, they use the same casual form.<\/p>\n It’s not as common for people already in relationships to use the polite form of this expression, but some people do, and as with all Korean sentences, we can make the polite form by adding -\uc694 at the end:<\/p>\n However, the polite form of ‘I love you’ has a broader range of uses. We can use this form to say ‘I love you’ to parents and teachers as it is more respectful, and in Korean, we say ‘I love you’ to parents and teachers not only to express our love, but also to show our appreciation and gratitude.<\/p>\n The answer is yes, and it is:<\/p>\n Again, the formal form of ‘I love you’ is rarely used between couples, but some couples may use this form just to be super polite. Similarly, when saying ‘I love you’ to parents and teachers, some people may choose to use the formal form because they want or need to be more respectful.<\/p>\n As sad as this expression is, if we’re learning how to say ‘I love you’, then we should also learn to say ‘I don’t love you’ in Korean.<\/p>\n There are two ways to say ‘I don’t love you’ in Korean:<\/p>\n The first way is to say:<\/p>\n Simple way to form negative statement is to add the word \uc548 in front of the verb, so the polite and the formal forms would look like this:<\/p>\n The second way is to say:<\/p>\n We make this negative statement by adding \uc9c0 \uc54a\ub2e4 to the verb stem. Earlier we learned that the verb to love is \uc0ac\ub791\ud558\ub2e4.<\/p>\n So here, we remove \ub2e4 and then add \uc9c0 \uc54a\ub2e4 to make the negative form. Then to make the casual form, we change \ub2e4 at the end of \uc9c0 \uc54a\ub2e4 to \uc544. The polite and the formal forms look like this.<\/p>\n Similar to English, another way of saying that we have positive feelings for someone is to use the verb ‘to like’, and this verb in Korean is \uc88b\uc544\ud558\ub2e4.<\/p>\n So to say ‘I like you’, we can say:<\/p>\n \uc88b\uc544\ud574 is the casual form, and it’s very common in Korea for people to express their feelings of fondness by using the verb \uc88b\uc544\ud558\ub2e4. The polite and formal form of \uc88b\uc544\ud558\ub2e4 look like this:<\/p>\n And like ‘to love’, if we want to say ‘I like you’ and include ‘I’ and ‘you’ in the sentence, we can say:<\/p>\n Now, we’ve learned that the noun of love is \uc0ac\ub791, and the verb is \uc0ac\ub791\ud558\ub2e4. The descriptive word for love, the adjective, is \uc0ac\ub791\ud558\ub294 and we can make this form by changing \ub2e4 in the verb to \ub294.<\/p>\n We can use this word to say that someone is a person that we love, like this:<\/p>\n \uc0ac\ub791\ud558\ub294 is the adjective form for love, and \uc0ac\ub78c means person, so \uc0ac\ub791\ud558\ub294 \uc0ac\ub78c means ‘a person I love’, so to say ‘Mina is someone I love’, we would say:<\/p>\n So, we first say the person’s name (\ubbf8\ub098) with the particle \ub294. Then we say ‘I’ (\ub0b4) with the particle \uac00. And lastly, we say \uc0ac\ub791\ud558\ub294 \uc0ac\ub78c with the Korean be-verb \uc774\uc57c. Here are a couple of other example sentences:<\/p>\n Similar to how the adjective form of love is made, the adjective form of \uc88b\uc544\ud558\ub2e4 is \uc88b\uc544\ud558\ub294, so to say that someone is a person I like, we can say:<\/p>\n And likewise, to say \ubbf8\ub098 is someone I like, we can say:<\/p>\n\n
How ‘I love you’ is used in Korean<\/strong><\/h4>\n
When to use the polite form<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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Is there a formal form of ‘I love you’ in Korean?<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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‘I don’t love you’ in Korean<\/h2>\n
First way of saying ‘I don’t love you’ in Korean<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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The Form<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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The second way of saying ‘I don’t love you’ in Korean<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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The Form<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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‘I like you’ in Korean<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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The descriptive word for ‘love’ in Korean<\/h2>\n
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\n\ubbfc\uc218\ub294 \ub0b4\uac00 \uc0ac\ub791\ud558\ub294 \uc0ac\ub78c\uc774\uc57c. (Minsuneun naega saranghaneun saramiya.)<\/li>\n
\n\ud574\uc815\uc774\ub294 \ub0b4\uac00 \uc0ac\ub791\ud558\ub294 \uc0ac\ub78c\uc774\uc57c. (Haejungineun naega saranghaneun saramiya.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nOther useful adjectives related to love in Korean<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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\n<\/em>\ubbf8\ub098\ub294 \ub0b4\uac00 \uc88b\uc544\ud558\ub294 \uc0ac\ub78c\uc774\uc57c. (Minaneun naega joahaneun saramiya.)<\/li>\n
\n\ubbfc\uc218\ub294 \ub0b4\uac00 \uc88b\uc544\ud558\ub294 \uc0ac\ub78c\uc774\uc57c. (Minsuneun naega joahaneun saramiya.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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