17 Essential Words for the TOPIK Test - Emotions

Enhance your TOPIK test preparation with these 17 essential emotion-related words. Learn their meanings and see example sentences to improve your vocabulary and score.

17 Essential Words for the TOPIK Test - Emotions
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Mastering vocabulary that expresses emotions is crucial for acing the TOPIK (Test of Proficiency in Korean) test. These words frequently appear in various sections of the exam, and being familiar with them can significantly enhance your performance. Let's explore 17 essential emotion-related words that you need to know, along with their meanings and example sentences. ๐Ÿ˜Š

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17 Essential Korean words about emotion

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Importance of Emotion-Related Vocabulary for the TOPIK Test

Understanding and using emotion-related vocabulary is vital for the TOPIK test. These words help you express feelings and reactions clearly and accurately, which is essential for both the writing and speaking sections of the exam. Moreover, these words often appear in reading passages and listening exercises, so knowing them well can boost your overall score.

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๊ธฐ์˜๋‹ค (To be Happy)

  • Meaning: To be Happy
  • Example Sentence: ๊ธฐ์œ ์†Œ์‹์„ ๋“ค์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (I heard happy news.)

์Šฌํ”„๋‹ค (To be Sad)

  • Meaning: To be Sad
  • Example Sentence: ์Šฌํ”ˆ ์˜ํ™”๋ฅผ ๋ดค์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (I watched a sad movie.)

ํ™”๋‚˜๋‹ค (To be Angry)

  • Meaning: To be Angry
  • Example Sentence: ๊ทธ๋Š” ํ™”๊ฐ€ ๋งŽ์ด ๋‚ฌ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (He got very angry.)

์‚ฌ๋ž‘ํ•˜๋‹ค (To Love)

  • Meaning: To Love
  • Example Sentence: ๋ถ€๋ชจ๋‹˜์„ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (I love my parents.)

๋‘๋ ต๋‹ค (To be Afraid)

  • Meaning: To be Afraid
  • Example Sentence: ๋‚˜๋Š” ๋‘๋ ค์šด ๊ฟˆ์„ ๊ฟจ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (I had a scary dream.)

ํ–‰๋ณตํ•˜๋‹ค (To be Happy)

  • Meaning: To be Happy
  • Example Sentence: ๋‚˜๋Š” ํ–‰๋ณตํ•œ ์‚ถ์„ ์‚ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (I am living a happy life.)

๋†€๋ผ๋‹ค (To be Surprised)

  • Meaning: To be Surprised
  • Example Sentence: ๊ทธ์˜ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ์— ๋†€๋ž์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (I was surprised by his visit.)

์‹ค๋งํ•˜๋‹ค (To be Disappointed)

  • Meaning: To be Disappointed
  • Example Sentence: ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์— ์‹ค๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (I was disappointed with the result.)

๊ธฐ์˜๋‹ค (To be Delighted)

  • Meaning: To be Delighted
  • Example Sentence: ์„ ๋ฌผ์„ ๋ฐ›์•„์„œ ๊ธฐ๋ปค์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (I was delighted to receive the gift.)

์งˆํˆฌํ•˜๋‹ค (To be Jealous)

  • Meaning: To be Jealous
  • Example Sentence: ๋‚˜๋Š” ๊ทธ์˜ ์„ฑ๊ณต์„ ์งˆํˆฌํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (I was jealous of his success.)

์™ธ๋กญ๋‹ค (To be Lonely)

  • Meaning: To be Lonely
  • Example Sentence: ๋‚˜๋Š” ์™ธ๋กœ์šด ๋ฐค์„ ๋ณด๋ƒˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (I spent a lonely night.)

๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•˜๋‹ค (To be Grateful)

  • Meaning: To be Grateful
  • Example Sentence: ๋„์›€์„ ์ฃผ์…”์„œ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (Thank you for your help.)

ํ›„ํšŒํ•˜๋‹ค (To Regret)

  • Meaning: To Regret
  • Example Sentence: ๋‚˜๋Š” ๊ทธ ๊ฒฐ์ •์„ ํ›„ํšŒํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (I regretted that decision.)

์ž๋ถ€์‹ฌ์„ ๋Š๋ผ๋‹ค (To Feel Proud)

  • Meaning: To Feel Proud
  • Example Sentence: ๋‚˜๋Š” ๋‚ด ์„ฑ์ทจ์— ์ž๋ถ€์‹ฌ์„ ๋Š๊ผˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (I felt proud of my achievements.)

๋ถˆ์•ˆํ•˜๋‹ค (To be Anxious)

  • Meaning: To be Anxious
  • Example Sentence: ๋‚˜๋Š” ๋ถˆ์•ˆํ•œ ๋งˆ์Œ์œผ๋กœ ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ ธ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (I waited with an anxious heart.)

ํฌ๋งํ•˜๋‹ค (To Hope)

  • Meaning: To Hope
  • Example Sentence: ๋‚˜๋Š” ํฌ๋ง์„ ์žƒ์ง€ ์•Š์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (I haven't lost hope.)

ํ”ผ๊ณคํ•˜๋‹ค (To be Tired)

  • Meaning: To be Tired
  • Example Sentence: ์˜ค๋Š˜ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ํ”ผ๊ณคํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (I am very tired today.)

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Conclusion:

Summary of Key Points Mastering these 17 essential emotion-related words is crucial for performing well on the TOPIK test. They help you express emotions accurately and understand the feelings conveyed in reading passages and listening exercises.

Encouragement to Practice To improve your proficiency, practice using these words in daily conversations, writing exercises, and mock tests. The more you use them, the more naturally they will come to you during the exam. ๐Ÿ˜Š

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