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Let’s be cool even if you are mad right now and try to write ‘I’m mad / angry’ in Korean on your mind in 5 seconds and scream it.

How To Say I Am Mad / Angry in Korean

저 화났어요

[jeo hwa-nasseoyo]
I’m angry / mad

Basic form : 화(가) 나다
반말(informal non-honorific) form : 화나
Negative form with 해요 speech style : 안화났어요

You must understand 화나다 is a verb, not an adjective. 화나다 describes an action like any other verbs. Since it’s a verb, even you said it in the past tense : 화났다, it shows the present status. You have to use the pluperfect (past perfect) tense to say ‘I was mad’

This vocabulary is quite interesting and funny because 화 is from a chinese word 火 which means ‘fire’ and 나다 is a pure Korean vocabulary which means ‘occur’, ‘happen’ or ‘grow’. So, the literal meaning of 화나다 is ‘fire grows’ lol.

Ahhh Natural-☆

To make ‘I am mad’ in Korean sound really really really natural, You should avoid to use any subject / topic markers and the proper pronoun is 저 almost time. Why?

1st. the real subject in this phrase is ‘화(fire)’ : 화(가) 나다.
2nd. I don’t know, 저는 or 제가 sounds super weird to the native’s ear.

저는 화났어요 (wrong)
I am mad

저 화났어요
I am mad

How To Use

A: 왜 그래요?
What’s wrong?
B: 진짜 화나요
I’m really mad

A: 저 하나씨한테 화났어요
I’m mad at you, Hana
B: 제가 뭐 잘못한거 있어요?
Did I do something wrong?

사람들을 화나게 하는 방법은 두가지가 있는데,
There are 2 ways to make people angry.
하나는 말을 끝까지 하지 않는 것이고
The first is not finishing the speech and
* popular joke in Korea lolol