Don’t Lie in Korean
Hello everyone, it’s your Korean Teacher Jun! We all do lie no matter if it’s a white lie or not. We all lie sometimes. Let’s imagine a moment, it was your birthday. Your friend gave you some expensive present but you didn’t like it much. What would you do? You would say you love it right? That’s also a lie but a good one. But what if the friend was actually you and you wanted to know the truth? So today, we are going to learn how to say don’t lie in Korean!
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You can easily find a Korean word for ‘lie’ in any Korean drama or song. Can you guess what it is?
How To Say Don’t Lie in Korean
거짓말 하지마세요
[geojitmal haji-maseyo]
Don’t lie
Basic form : 거짓말 하지않다
반말(informal non-honorific) form : 거짓말 하지마
Positive form with 해요 speech style : 거짓말 하세요
Ooh it’s a bit long right? Let’s look at the phrase closer word by word. 거짓말 is ‘lie’ in Korean as noun. 하지마요 is asking somebody not to do something. 세요 make the phrase more polite. So, technically, 거짓말 하지마세요 is more like a polite but serious asking.
거짓말 하지마세요 is perfectly translated to ‘don’t lie to me’ also even though it doesn’t have any word for ‘to me’. The phrase already implies ‘don’t lie to me’ already.
How To Use
A: 제가 안했어요
I didn’t do it
B: 거짓말하지 마세요
Don’t lie to me
A: 진짜예요?
Is it true?
B: 거짓말 아니에요
It’s not a lie
A: 준씨가 제 케잌 먹었어요??
Jun, did you eat my cake??
B: 아뇨…
No…
A: 거짓말하지 마세요. 제 눈을 봐요
Don’t lie to me. Look at my eyes
B: 죽여주세요…
Kill me…
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Other Words For ‘Lie’
Korean language has many slangs especially for ‘lie’. Weirdly, those slangs are much easier to find while you’re talking to native Koreans or you’re watching Korean TV shows, movies. As a Korean, sometimes I feel 거짓말 sounds a bit polite and serious. Almost Korean slangs for ‘lie’ tend to use a verb ‘치다’ instead of ‘하다’.
구라
[gura]
Lie
구라치다
[gura-chida]
To lie
뻥
[bbeong]
Lie
뻥치다
[bbeong-chida]
To lie
뻥 and 구라 both aren’t much good to use when you are talking about something serious since they are slang. Also, it’s natural when you use it to close friends mostly.
Vocabulary Note
안하다 [anhada] : not to do
진짜 [jinjja] : really
케잌 [ceik] : cake
먹다 [meokdda] : to eat
제 [je] : my
눈 [nun] : eye / eyes
보다 [boda] : look / watch / see
죽이다 [jugida] : to kill
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