I’m Bored in Korean
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Maybe some of you are now studying Korean because you were bored and didn’t have something else to do. That’s really great because that means you don’t waste your time. Let’s try to make a sentence in your brain. Write ‘I’m bored’ in Korean on your mind and say it in 5 seconds.
How To Say I’m Bored in Korean
심심해요
[simsim-heyo]
I’m bored
Basic form : 심심하다
반말(informal non-honorific) form : 심심해
Negative form with -해요 : 안심심해요
The basic form of 심심해요 is 심심하다. 심심하다 describe a feeling that you feel bored in Korean. However, 심심하다 is not 100% same to the English word ‘bore’. It need a different way to understand 심심해 comparing to ‘bore’.
Koreans quite often say it when they want to do something for fun. I wonder how Korean conversations would be like if they don’t have this word lol.
Differences
1st, 심심하다 is not a verb. So you can’t use it like ‘something bores me’. It’s an adjective that describes your mood such as ‘happy’, ‘sad’.
2nd. You can say ‘심심하다’ especially when you don’t have anything to do for fun. So, it’s not natural to say when you are bored by something or someone else.
How to Use
A: 저 너무 심심해요
I’m too bored
B: 게임 같이 할래요?
Wanna play a game with me?
A: 준씨 심심해요?
Are you bored Jun?
B: 아니요. 졸려요
No. I’m sleepy
A: 심심하면 우리 산책가요
Let’s take a walk if you’re bored
B: 좋아요. 우리 맛있는 거도 사먹어요
Good. Let’s eat something nice too.
Something / Someone Bores you
When something or someone bores you, 심심하다 may be not the best word to use because 심심하다 is a mood that you don’t have anything to do so feel bored. In this case, 재미없어요 or 지루해요 can be the best phrases. 재미없어요 literally means ‘to be not fun’ and 지루하다 means ‘to be boring or tedious’
재미없어요
It’s boring / It’s not fun
지루해요
It’s boring / It’s tedious
심심하다 For Food And Taste
Native Koreans also use 심심하다 for food when the food isn’t much season (especially with salt). Isn’t it funny? So it can be literally translated as ‘this food is bored’ lol . It’s not even ‘this food is boring’.
It can be used negatively and not so negatively at same time. Some Koreans say ‘it’s plain, I like it’ and some Koreans say ‘it’s plain, need salt’. However, no matter how it’ used, it has only a negative meaning when it’s used with adverb ‘너무(too)’.
이 음식 너무 심심해요
This food is too plain
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너무[neomu] : too
게임[geim] : video game / computer game
같이[gachi] : together
졸리다[jolida] : to be sleepy
산책[sanchek] : stroll
맛있는[masitneun] : delicious – (adjective modifier)
거[geo] : thing (informal)
사먹다[sameokda] : to buy to eat
하다[hada] : to do / be
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