Learn 10 animal sounds
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| Hi, everyone, Iโm Jaehwi, welcome back to Korean Weekly Words. In this video, we'll be talking about 10 animal words. Let's begin! |
| 1. ์ผ์น (yaong) โcat meow" |
| you know when I was a kid I was like ์ผ์น (yaong) "meowโ, or sometimes we just write it down as ๋์น(nyaong), using the N sound, and say ๋์น(nyaong). So ์ผ์น (yaong) and ๋์น(nyaong) can be are used to say meow in Korean. |
| ๊ณ ์์ด๋ '์ผ์น'ํ๊ณ ์๋๋ค. (Goyangineun 'yaong'hago umnida.) "Cats cry like meow." |
| 2. ๋ฉ๋ฉ (meongmeong) โdog barkโ |
| So for me when a dog barks it sounds like meongmeong, or weongweong, depends on the size of the dog. So in a sentence, you can say, |
| ์์ง์ ์๋ ๊ฐ๊ฐ '๋ฉ๋ฉ'ํ๊ณ ์ง๊ธฐ ์์ํ์ต๋๋ค. (Yeopjibe inneun gaega 'meongmeong'hago jitkki sijakaetsseumnida.) "The dog next door started barking." |
| 3. ์ผ๋ฅด๋ (eureureong) โlionโs roar" |
| We go to zoo, and when you hear the lion making some sound, we hear that ์ผ๋ฅด๋ (eureureong)โฆ it doesn't sound the same, but when we write it out we just use it something like ์ผ๋ฅด๋ (eureureong). So in a sentence, you can say, |
| ์ฌ์๊ฐ '์ผ๋ฅด๋ 'ํ๊ณ ์ธ์ด์ ๊น์ง ๋๋์ต๋๋ค. (Sajaga 'eureureong'hago ureoseo kkamjjak nollatsseumnida.) "I was surprised because the lion roared." |
| 4. ๊ฟ๊ฟ (kkulkkul) โpigโs snort" |
| So when we write it down we use san sound, and say ๊ฟ๊ฟ (kkulkkul). So in a sentence, you can say, |
| ์ด์ ๊ฟ์์ ๋ผ์ง๊ฐ '๊ฟ๊ฟ'ํ๊ณ ์ธ์์ต๋๋ค. (Eoje kkumeseo dwaejiga 'kkulkkul'hago ureotsseumnida.) โIn my dream last night, a pig snorted.โ |
| So Korean people believe that when they see a pig in the dream, thereโll be a lot of good luck, you know, you hear some of your friends saying, I just saw a pig yesterday in my dream so i'm going to buy some lottery. |
| 5. ๊ผฌ๋ผ์ค (kkokkio) โroosterโs crowโ |
| So in the written Korean we write it down as ๊ผฌ๋ผ์ค (kkokkio), but when we imitate the sound we say ๊ผฌ๋ผ์ค (kkokkio). So in a sentence, you can say, |
| ์๊ณจ์ ๊ฐ๋ฉด ๋ญ์ด '๊ผฌ๋ผ์ค'ํ๊ณ ์ฐ๋ ์๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋ค์ ์ ์์ต๋๋ค. (igore gamyeon dalgi 'kkokkio'hago uneun sorireul deureul su itsseumnida.) "When you go to the countryside, you can hear roosters crowing." |
| 6. ๊ฐ๊ตด๊ฐ๊ตด (gaegulgaegul) โfrogโs croak" |
| You know, it sounds like โcroak-quackโ or something like that, but we just write it out as ๊ฐ๊ตด๊ฐ๊ตด (gaegulgaegul) when you hear a frog croak. |
| ๊ฐ๊ฐ์ ๊ฐ๋๊น '๊ฐ๊ตด๊ฐ๊ตด'ํ๋ ์๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๋ค๋ ธ์ต๋๋ค. (Ganggae ganikka 'gaegulgaegul'haneun soriga deullyeotsseumnida.) "When I went to the riverside, I could hear the frogs croaking." |
| 7. ์์ฝ์์ฝ (ppiyakppiyak) โchickโs peep" |
| We write it down as ์์ฝ์์ฝ (ppiyakppiyak) but when we imitate we make some sounds like ppiyakppiyak. |
| ํ๊ต๋ฅผ ๋๊ฐ์ '์์ฝ์์ฝ'ํ๋ ์๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๋ค๋ ธ์ต๋๋ค. (Hakgyoreul nagaja 'ppiyakppiyak'haneun soriga deullyeotsseumnida.) "When I got out of school, I could hear chicks peeping." |
| So when I was a kid, usually on Saturday morning or Saturday afternoons, because we had classes and Saturdays in the past, some old ladies they just brought a box with a lot of chicks inside and just sold that to kids. |
| 8. ๋ถ์๋ถ์ (bueongbueong) โowlโs hoot" |
| I haven't heard owls hoot, but in Korean we call owls as ๋ฐค์(bame) because we think that they make some sound like bueongbueong. In a sentence, you can say, |
| ๋ฐค์ '๋ถ์๋ถ์'ํ๋ ์๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๋ค๋ ธ์ต๋๋ค. (Bame 'bueongbueong'haneun soriga deullyeotsseumnida.) "At night, I could hear owls hooting.โ |
| 9. ์งน์งน (jjaekjjaek) โbirdโs tweet" |
| When we imitate the sound we say jjaekjjaek, you know, the small birds tweet. In Korean, especially in the countryside, you can hear this kind of jjaekjjaek a lot, because there are a lot of small birds. So in that case, we can say |
| '์งน์งน'ํ๋ ์๋ฆฌ์ ํจ๊ป ์ผ์ด๋ฌ์ต๋๋ค. (Jjjaekjjaek'haneun soriwa hamkke ireonatsseumnida.) "I woke up with birds tweeting." |
| 10. ์๋ฉ (eumme) โcowโs moo" |
| So we write it down as ์๋ฉ (eumme) but when we make sound using this word, we say eummeeeee, so itโs a little bit long. So eummeeee to imitate the sound of cowโs moo. |
| So when we imitate sheep sound, we say a part of word mmeeeee, in a high tone; but when we imitate cowโs moo, we say eummeeeee, like in a very low tone. Make sure you say Mmmm at the beginning of ์๋ฉ (eumme). So in a sentence we can say, |
| ๋์ฅ์ ๊ฐ์ '์๋ฉ' ์๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋ค์์ต๋๋ค. (Nongjange gaseo 'eumme' sorireul deureotsseumnida. ) "I heard cows mooing at the farm." |
| That's all 10 animal words. I hope you like some of the words that I imitated, and if you want to learn more words like these, make sure to visit Koreanclass101.com. Iโll see you next time. |
| ๋ค์ ์๊ฐ์ ๋ต๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค (Daeum sigane boepgetsseumnida) ์๋ ํ ๊ณ์ธ์ (annyeonghi gyeseyo). |
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Hi Abby,
Thanks for posting, we're glad ์ผ๋ฅด๋ was on the list! And I do agree, it was a great song with amazing choreography!
Cheers,
Lyn
Team KoreanClass101.com
I watched this lesson just because I was hoping ์ผ๋ฅด๋ would be in it. I really love EXO (and BTS). It is one of my favorite songs especially since all 12 members were around for the song.
Hi Ian,
Thanks for sharing. I personally like the song too! :smile:
Cheers,
Lyn
Team KoreanClass101.com
I love the kpop song 'Growl' by the boy group EXO. The lyrics go '์ผ๋ฅด๋ , ์ผ๋ฅด๋ , ์ผ๋ฅด๋ , yeah!' ?