TL;DR
- ๋์ = help / assistance (noun) ๐
- ๋ถ์ค = loss (of an item) (noun) ๐
- ๊ธด๊ธ = urgent / emergency (noun) ๐จ
- ์์ = safety (noun) ๐ก๏ธ
- ์ ๊ณ = report (to authorities) (noun) ๐
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Try this: ๊ฐ๋ฐฉ์ ๋ถ์คํด์ ๋์์ด ํ์ํด์. ๊ธด๊ธ ์ํฉ์ ์๋์ง๋ง, ๋ถ์ค ์ ๊ณ ๋ฅผ ํ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์. ์ฌ๊ธฐ๋ ์์ ํ ๊ณณ์ด์ฃ ?
(I lost my bag, so I need help. It's not an emergency, but I'd like to file a lost item report. This is a safe place, right?)
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๐ The Big Picture
These five words are your toolkit for handling problems calmly in Korea. ๋์ is the help you ask for, ๋ถ์ค covers lost items, ๊ธด๊ธ marks anything urgent, ์์ reassures you (or others) that things are okay, and ์ ๊ณ is how you formally report an issue to the right people. Together, they turn a stressful situation into a manageable one. ๐งญ
๐จ The Core Problem-Solving Family
1. ๋์ โ help / assistance ๐
A noun for "help," often paired with ํ์ํ๋ค, ์ฃผ๋ค, or ๋ฐ๋ค.
- ๋์์ด ํ์ํด์. (I need help.)
- ๋์์ฃผ์ธ์! (Please help me!)
โ Grammar note: ๋์ is a noun; the verb form is irregular โ ๋์์ฃผ๋ค ("to help"), not ๋์ํ๋ค.
2. ๋ถ์ค โ loss (of an item) ๐
A more formal noun for losing something, paired with ํ๋ค (to lose) or ๋๋ค (to be lost).
- ๊ฐ๋ฐฉ์ ๋ถ์คํ์ด์. (I lost my bag.)
- ๋ถ์ค๋ฌผ ์ผํฐ๊ฐ ์ด๋์์? (Where's the lost & found?)
โ Grammar note: ๋ถ์ค๋ฌผ = "lost item"; more formal/written than everyday ์์ด๋ฒ๋ฆฌ๋ค ("to lose").
3. ๊ธด๊ธ โ urgent / emergency ๐จ
A noun/modifier for urgency, often combined with another noun.
- ๊ธด๊ธ ์ํฉ์ด์์! (This is an emergency!)
- ๊ธด๊ธ ์ฐ๋ฝ์ฒ๋ฅผ ์๋ ค์ฃผ์ธ์. (Please give me an emergency contact.)
โ Grammar note: ๊ธด๊ธํ = "urgently" (adverb); ๊ธด๊ธ + noun = "emergency ___" (๊ธด๊ธ ์ํฉ, ๊ธด๊ธ ์ ํ).
4. ์์ โ safety ๐ก๏ธ
A noun for "safety," paired with ํ๋ค to become the descriptive verb "to be safe."
- ์ฌ๊ธฐ๋ ์์ ํด์. (This place is safe.)
- ์์ ๋ฒจํธ๋ฅผ ๋งค์ธ์. (Please wear your seatbelt.)
โ Grammar note: ์์ ํ๋ค = "to be safe"; ์์ ํ = "safely" (adverb, e.g., ์์ ํ ๊ฐ์ธ์ = "go safely").
5. ์ ๊ณ โ report (to authorities) ๐
A noun for an official report, paired with ํ๋ค to mean "to report."
- ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ์ ์ ๊ณ ํ์ด์. (I reported it to the police.)
- ๋ถ์ค ์ ๊ณ ๋ฅผ ํด์ผ ํด์. (I need to file a lost item report.)
โ Grammar note: ์ ๊ณ ํ๋ค = "to report" (to police/authorities); ์ ๊ณ ์ = "report form."
๐ ๏ธ How They Work in a Sentence
- ๊ฐ๋ฐฉ์ ๋ถ์คํด์ ๋์์ด ํ์ํด์.
(I lost my bag, so I need help.)
โ ๋ถ์ค (the problem) leads to needing ๋์ (assistance).
- ๊ธด๊ธ ์ํฉ์ด๋๊น ๋นจ๋ฆฌ ์ ๊ณ ํด ์ฃผ์ธ์.
(This is an emergency, so please report it quickly.)
โ ๊ธด๊ธ (urgency) prompts ์ ๊ณ (reporting).
- ์ฌ๊ธฐ๋ ์์ ํ๋๊น ๊ฑฑ์ ํ์ง ๋ง์ธ์. ๋์์ด ํ์ํ๋ฉด ์ ๊ณ ํ์ธ์.
(This place is safe, so don't worry. If you need help, report it.)
โ ์์ reassures, while ๋์ and ์ ๊ณ remain available if needed.
๐งฉ General Formation Rule
- ๋์ + ์ด/๊ฐ ํ์ํ๋ค, ๋์์ ์ฃผ๋ค/๋ฐ๋ค โ ๋์์ฃผ๋ค is the irregular verb form ("to help")
- ๋ถ์ค + ํ๋ค (to lose something) / ๋๋ค (to be lost); ๋ถ์ค๋ฌผ = "lost item"
- ๊ธด๊ธ + noun = "emergency ___" (๊ธด๊ธ ์ํฉ, ๊ธด๊ธ ์ฐ๋ฝ์ฒ, ๊ธด๊ธ ์ ํ)
- ์์ + ํ๋ค = "to be safe" (descriptive verb); ์์ ํ, ์์ ๋ฒจํธ
- ์ ๊ณ + ํ๋ค = "to report"; ์ ๊ณ ์, ๋ถ์ค ์ ๊ณ
๐ Cross-check note
All vocabulary cross-checked against korean.go.kr โ
๐ช Synonym Alert
- ๋์ vs ์ง์ โ ๋์ = general help/assistance (interpersonal); ์ง์ = support, often institutional or financial (์ ๋ถ ์ง์ = "government support").
- ๋ถ์ค vs ์์ด๋ฒ๋ฆฌ๋ค โ ๋ถ์ค = formal/written ("loss," used in ๋ถ์ค๋ฌผ, ๋ถ์ค ์ ๊ณ ); ์์ด๋ฒ๋ฆฌ๋ค = everyday spoken "to lose something."
- ๊ธด๊ธ vs ์๊ธ โ ๊ธด๊ธ = urgent in general (time-sensitive); ์๊ธ = medical emergency specifically (์๊ธ์ค = "ER").
- ์์ vs ์ํ โ ์์ = safe; ์ํ = dangerous โ direct opposites.
- ์ ๊ณ vs ๋ณด๊ณ โ ์ ๊ณ = reporting to authorities (police, lost & found); ๋ณด๊ณ = reporting to your boss/company.
โ ๏ธ Pitfalls to Dodge
- โ Using ๋์ alone as a verb โ โ Say ๋์์ฃผ๋ค, ๋์์ด ํ์ํ๋ค, or ๋์์ ๋ฐ๋ค โ ๋์ itself is a noun.
- โ Confusing ๋ถ์คํ๋ค and ๋ถ์ค๋๋ค โ โ ๋ถ์คํ๋ค = you lost it (active); ๋ถ์ค๋๋ค = it got lost (passive, often for mail/packages).
- โ Using ๊ธด๊ธ for medical emergencies only โ โ ์๊ธ is medical-specific (์๊ธ์ค); ๊ธด๊ธ is broader urgency.
- โ Saying ์์ by itself as "to be safe" โ โ ์์ is a noun; ์์ ํ๋ค is the descriptive verb.
- โ Mixing up ์ ๊ณ and ๋ณด๊ณ โ โ ์ ๊ณ = report to police/authorities; ๋ณด๊ณ = report to your boss/company.
๋์์ด ํ์ํ๊ฑฐ๋, ๋ญ๊ฐ ๋ถ์คํ๊ฑฐ๋, ๊ธด๊ธํ ์ํฉ์ด๋ฉด โ ์์ ํ๊ฒ ์ ๊ณ ํ์ธ์! ๐๐๐จ๐ก๏ธ๐
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Try this exercise
Fill in each blank with the correct word (๋์, ๋ถ์ค, ๊ธด๊ธ, ์์ , or ์ ๊ณ ).
A. ___์ด ํ์ํด์. (I need help.)
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๋์
B. ๊ฐ๋ฐฉ์ ___ํ์ด์. (I lost my bag.)
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๋ถ์ค
C. ___ ์ํฉ์ด์์! (This is an emergency!)
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๊ธด๊ธ
D. ์ฌ๊ธฐ๋ ___ํด์. (This place is safe.)
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์์
E. ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ์ ___ํ์ด์. (I reported it to the police.)
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์ ๊ณ
F. ๋์์ฃผ์ธ์! ___์ด ํ์ํด์. (Please help me! I need assistance.)
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๋์
G. ___๋ฌผ ์ผํฐ๊ฐ ์ด๋์์? (Where's the lost & found?)
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๋ถ์ค
H. ___ ์ฐ๋ฝ์ฒ๋ฅผ ์๋ ค์ฃผ์ธ์. (Please give me an emergency contact.)
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๊ธด๊ธ
I. ___๋ฒจํธ๋ฅผ ๋งค์ธ์. (Please wear your seatbelt.)
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์์
J. ๋ถ์ค ___๋ฅผ ํด์ผ ํด์. (I need to file a lost item report.)
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์ ๊ณ
Vocabulary Box
- ๋์ โ help; ๋์์ฃผ๋ค, ๋์์ด ํ์ํ๋ค
- ๋ถ์ค โ loss; ๋ถ์คํ๋ค/๋๋ค, ๋ถ์ค๋ฌผ
- ๊ธด๊ธ โ urgent; ๊ธด๊ธ ์ํฉ/์ฐ๋ฝ์ฒ
- ์์ โ safety; ์์ ํ๋ค, ์์ ํ
- ์ ๊ณ โ report; ์ ๊ณ ํ๋ค, ๋ถ์ค ์ ๊ณ
Pitfalls reminder
- ๋์ โ verb; use ๋์์ฃผ๋ค
- ๊ธด๊ธ (general) vs ์๊ธ (medical)
- ์ ๊ณ (police) vs ๋ณด๊ณ (boss)
Want more reps? Practice a "lost item" roleplay: explain you lost something (๋ถ์ค), ask for help (๋์), say it's urgent (๊ธด๊ธ), and file a report (์ ๊ณ ) โ all while staying calm and safe (์์ )!
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Practice Hub: Problem Solving (๋์ / ๋ถ์ค / ๊ธด๊ธ / ์์ / ์ ๊ณ )
Five rounds for handling problems calmly and clearly.
Exercise 1 โ Word Recall: ๋์ & ๋ถ์ค
A. "Can you help me?"
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๋์์ค ์ ์์ด์?
B. "I really need your help."
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์ ๋ง ๋์์ด ํ์ํด์.
C. "Thank you for your help."
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๋์ ์ฃผ์
์ ๊ฐ์ฌํด์.
D. "I lost my phone."
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ํด๋ํฐ์ ๋ถ์คํ์ด์.
E. "Did you find the lost item?"
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๋ถ์ค๋ฌผ์ ์ฐพ์์ด์?
F. "I lost my wallet on the subway."
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์งํ์ฒ ์์ ์ง๊ฐ์ ๋ถ์คํ์ด์.
G. "She helped me a lot."
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๊ทธ๋
๊ฐ ์ ๋ฅผ ๋ง์ด ๋์์คฌ์ด์.
H. "Is there a lost and found here?"
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์ฌ๊ธฐ ๋ถ์ค๋ฌผ ์ผํฐ ์์ด์?
I. "I'd like to ask for help."
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๋์์ ์์ฒญํ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์.
J. "My passport got lost."
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์ฌ๊ถ์ด ๋ถ์ค๋์ด์.
Quick Reference
- ๋์ = help; ๋์์ฃผ๋ค, ๋์์ด ํ์ํ๋ค
- ๋ถ์คํ๋ค (active) vs ๋ถ์ค๋๋ค (passive)
- ๋ถ์ค๋ฌผ ์ผํฐ = lost & found
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Exercise 2 โ Word Recall: ๊ธด๊ธ & ์์
A. "This is urgent!"
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๊ธด๊ธํด์!
B. "Please call this emergency number."
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์ด ๊ธด๊ธ ์ ํ๋ก ์ฐ๋ฝํด ์ฃผ์ธ์.
C. "Is it safe here?"
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์ฌ๊ธฐ ์์ ํด์?
D. "Please drive safely."
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์์ ํ๊ฒ ์ด์ ํ์ธ์.
E. "We have an emergency meeting."
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๊ธด๊ธ ํ์๊ฐ ์์ด์.
F. "Safety first."
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์์ ์ด ์ฐ์ ์ด์์.
G. "It's an urgent matter."
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๊ธด๊ธํ ์ผ์ด์์.
H. "The area is safe now."
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์ด์ ๊ทธ ์ง์ญ์ ์์ ํด์.
I. "Please give me your emergency contact."
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๊ธด๊ธ ์ฐ๋ฝ์ฒ๋ฅผ ์๋ ค์ฃผ์ธ์.
J. "Wear this for your safety."
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์์ ์ ์ํด ์ด๊ฑธ ์ฐฉ์ฉํ์ธ์.
Quick Reference
- ๊ธด๊ธ + noun = "emergency ___"
- ์์ ํ๋ค = to be safe; ์์ ํ = safely
- ~์/๋ฅผ ์ํด = "for the sake of ~"
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Exercise 3 โ Pattern Practice: ๋์์ฃผ๋ค / ๋ถ์คํ๋ค / ๋ถ์ค๋๋ค
A. "Can you help me find this place?"
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์ด ๊ณณ์ ์ฐพ๋ ๊ฑฐ ๋์์ค ์ ์์ด์?
B. "I helped my friend move."
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์น๊ตฌ์ ์ด์ฌ๋ฅผ ๋์์คฌ์ด์.
C. "He lost his keys again."
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๊ทธ๋ ๋ ์ด์ ๋ฅผ ๋ถ์คํ์ด์.
D. "My package was lost in transit."
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์ ํ๋ฐฐ๊ฐ ๋ถ์ค๋์ด์.
E. "Could you help me with this form?"
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์ด ์์ ์์ฑํ๋ ๊ฑฐ ๋์์ค ์ ์์ด์?
F. "I lost my umbrella yesterday."
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์ด์ ์ฐ์ฐ์ ๋ถ์คํ์ด์.
G. "Please help me carry this."
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์ด๊ฑฐ ์ฎ๊ธฐ๋ ๊ฑฐ ๋์์ฃผ์ธ์.
H. "The letter got lost somehow."
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ํธ์ง๊ฐ ์ด์ฉ๋ค ๋ถ์ค๋์ด์.
I. "Thanks to your help, I found it."
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๋์์ฃผ์ ๋๋ถ์ ์ฐพ์์ด์.
J. "I'm worried I lost my ID."
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์ ๋ถ์ฆ์ ๋ถ์คํ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์ ๊ฑฑ์ ๋ผ์.
Quick Reference
- ๋์์ฃผ๋ค = to help (irregular verb)
- ~๋ ๊ฑฐ ๋์์ฃผ๋ค = "help with ~ing"
- ~๋๋ถ์ = "thanks to ~"
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Exercise 4 โ Pattern Practice: ๊ธด๊ธ ์ํฉ & ์ ๊ณ ํ๋ค
A. "I need to report a theft."
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๋๋ ์ ๊ณ ๋ฅผ ํด์ผ ํด์.
B. "In an emergency, call 112."
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๊ธด๊ธ ์ํฉ์๋ 112์ ์ ๊ณ ํ์ธ์.
C. "I reported the lost item to the police."
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๋ถ์ค๋ฌผ์ ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ์ ์ ๊ณ ํ์ด์.
D. "This is an emergency call."
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์ด๊ฑด ๊ธด๊ธ ์ ํ์์.
E. "Did you file the report?"
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์ ๊ณ ํ์ด์?
F. "Please report any suspicious activity."
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์์ฌ์ค๋ฌ์ด ํ๋์ ์ ๊ณ ํด ์ฃผ์ธ์.
G. "It's not an emergency, but please hurry."
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๊ธด๊ธํ ๊ฑด ์๋์ง๋ง ์๋๋ฌ ์ฃผ์ธ์.
H. "I need to report a lost passport."
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์ฌ๊ถ ๋ถ์ค ์ ๊ณ ๋ฅผ ํด์ผ ํด์.
I. "We need an emergency plan."
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๊ธด๊ธ ๊ณํ์ด ํ์ํด์.
J. "I already reported it, don't worry."
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์ด๋ฏธ ์ ๊ณ ํ์ผ๋๊น ๊ฑฑ์ ํ์ง ๋ง์ธ์.
Quick Reference
- ์ ๊ณ ํ๋ค = to report (to police/authorities)
- ๊ธด๊ธ ์ํฉ์๋ ~ = "in an emergency, ~"
- ~์ผ๋๊น ๊ฑฑ์ ํ์ง ๋ง์ธ์ = "don't worry because ~"
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Exercise 5 โ Mixed Mastery
A. "I lost my bag and need help โ is there a safe place to wait?"
Answer
๊ฐ๋ฐฉ์ ๋ถ์คํด์ ๋์์ด ํ์ํด์ โ ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ฆด ์์ ํ ๊ณณ์ด ์์ด์?
B. "This is urgent, please report it to the police immediately."
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๊ธด๊ธํ ์ผ์ด๋๊น ๋ฐ๋ก ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ์ ์ ๊ณ ํด ์ฃผ์ธ์.
C. "Thanks to your help, I reported the lost item safely."
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๋์์ฃผ์ ๋๋ถ์ ๋ถ์ค๋ฌผ์ ์์ ํ๊ฒ ์ ๊ณ ํ์ด์.
D. "Is this area safe? I need to report something urgent."
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์ด ์ง์ญ ์์ ํด์? ๊ธด๊ธํ ์ผ์ ์ ๊ณ ํด์ผ ํด์.
E. "I lost my phone โ can you help me call the emergency number?"
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ํด๋ํฐ์ ๋ถ์คํ์ด์ โ ๊ธด๊ธ ์ ํ ๊ฑฐ๋ ๊ฑฐ ๋์์ค ์ ์์ด์?
F. "For your safety, please report any lost items immediately."
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์์ ์ ์ํด ๋ถ์ค๋ฌผ์ ๋ฐ๋ก ์ ๊ณ ํด ์ฃผ์ธ์.
G. "We need urgent help โ someone reported a safety issue."
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๊ธด๊ธํ ๋์์ด ํ์ํด์ โ ๋๊ฐ ์์ ๋ฌธ์ ๋ฅผ ์ ๊ณ ํ์ด์.
H. "I'm safe now, thanks to your help."
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๋์์ฃผ์ ๋๋ถ์ ์ด์ ์์ ํด์.
I. "Don't worry, I already reported the lost passport."
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๊ฑฑ์ ํ์ง ๋ง์ธ์, ์ฌ๊ถ ๋ถ์ค์ ์ด๋ฏธ ์ ๊ณ ํ์ด์.
J. "In an emergency, ask for help and report it for your safety."
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๊ธด๊ธ ์ํฉ์๋ ๋์์ ์์ฒญํ๊ณ ์์ ์ ์ํด ์ ๊ณ ํ์ธ์.
Quick Reference
- All five together: ๋์, ๋ถ์ค, ๊ธด๊ธ, ์์ , ์ ๊ณ
- ์์ฒญํ๋ค = "to request"
- ์ํด + ์ ๊ณ ํ๋ค = "report for the sake of ~"
๋์, ๋ถ์ค, ๊ธด๊ธ, ์์ , ์ ๊ณ โ ์ด๋ค ๋ฌธ์ ๊ฐ ์๊ฒจ๋ ์นจ์ฐฉํ๊ฒ ํด๊ฒฐํ ์ ์์ด์! ๐๐๐จ๐ก๏ธ๐