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Do you know what’s spring in Korean?

How To Say Spring Is Here in Korean

봄이 왔어요

[bom-i wasseoyo]
Spring is here

Basic form : 봄이 오다
반말(informal non-honorific) form : 봄이 왔어
Negative form with 해요 speech style : 봄이 안왔어요

봄이 왔다 is the most common phrase to say ‘Spring season is here again’. 봄 means ‘Spring’ and 왔다 is a past form of 오다 which means ‘come’ in Korean. So 봄이 왔다 means ‘Spring came’.

As a Korean. It sounds like ‘Spring season visited to us again’ because ‘오다’ is often used to greet other people.

Markers With The Phrase

You must remember 2 things for this phrase. 1st, you have to use subject markers 이/가 only, not topic markers 은/는. It sounds unnatural with 은/는. 2nd, you have to keep the marker. It sounds unnatural with a dropping marker.

봄 왔어요
Wrong

It’s Spring in Korean

봄이에요

[bom-ieyo]
It’s spring

You can simply say ‘It’s spring’ to describe a season came. Native Koreans use this phrase especially with adverbs such as ‘already’.

How To Say

A: 거긴 지금 무슨 계절이에요?
What season is it there?
B: 여긴 봄이 왔어요
Spring is here

A: 이제 봄이에요
It’s spring now
B: 네 날이 많이 따뜻해졌어요
Yes, weather got much warmer

A: 봄이 왔어요
Spring is here
B: 따뜻하니까 졸려서 공부를 못하겠어요
I can’t study because it’s warm enough to make me sleepy
A: 그냥 공부하기 싫다고 하세요
Just say you don’t want to study
B: 헤헷…
Hehe…