Learn Korean - Thank You & You're Welcome in Korean

안녕하세요, 에이미예요. 반가워요. Hi, everybody. I'm Amy. Welcome to KoreanClass101.com's 3분 한국어. The fastest, easiest, and most fun way to learn Korean. In the last lesson, we learned how to introduce ourselves in Korean. Today, we are going to learn how to use good manners as we thank people. Are you ready? Then let's start! There are several ways to thank someone. Let's start with the most common phrase, 감사합니다. 감사합니다 means I do thanks or thank you. To say thank you very much, you just need to add 대단히 which means very much or greatly. It's like saying thank you very much. In the last lesson, we saw that Korean has formal and informal ways of speaking. It's pretty formal. If you want to thank someone more casually, you can use a shorter phrase. Let's break down those phrases. In the formal way of saying thank you, 감사합니다. 감사 means thank you. And 합니다 is a formal way to say to do. So, 감사합니다 means I do thanks. And to make it less formal, we swap out 감사 with a different verb. That's 고마워. It has the same meaning of thank you, but it's more friendly. When someone thanks you, how should you answer? There's no set response like you're welcome in English. But there are a few things that you can say. The first thing is 아니에요. You literally are saying no. But this is a common and informal way to respond to someone thanking you. You're telling the person that there's nothing to bother thanking you for. There's another phrase that's used to respond to thank you in Korean. But it's not used all that often. You're better off with 아니에요 in most situations. Now, it's time for Amy's insight. sounds formal sounds informal What if you want to sound kind of formal, but still kind of friendly? In that case, you can upgrade the informal 고마워 to 고마워요. You see, you simply add 요 at the end. 요 is the sentence ending particles that make sentences more polite. This is a nice way to thank your waiter. Have you ever heard the phrase 안녕히 계세요 before? In our next lesson, you will learn this and more greetings in Korean.