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화가 나다: To Become Angry
2025-05-31
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Example Sentences#

  1. “개는 화가 나면 으르렁거리고, 기쁘면 꼬리를 흔들어.1
    “When a dog gets angry, it growls, and when it’s happy, it wags its tail.

    • 나다 means ‘to occur’ or ‘to happen’.
    • 화가 나다 is an idiomatic expression meaning ‘to become angry’.
    • is a conditional ending meaning ‘if’ or ‘when’.
  2. 닫힌 문 앞에서 화가 났어2
    Standing before closed doors, I felt anger.

    • 나다 means ‘to occur’ or ‘to arise’.
    • 화가 나다 is an idiomatic expression meaning ‘to become angry’.
    • is a past tense marker.
    • is a casual ending used in informal speech.
  3. 그런데 나는 기쁠 때 으르렁거리고, 화가 나면 꼬리를 흔들어.1
    But I growl when I’m happy, and I wag my tail when I’m angry.

    • 나다 means ‘to occur’ or ‘to happen’.
    • 화가 나다 is an idiomatic expression meaning ‘to become angry’.
    • is a conditional ending meaning ‘if’ or ‘when’.

Footnotes#

  1. Sentence from Alice And The Cheshire Cat Story. 2

  2. Sentence from The Red Ribbon.

화가 나다: To Become Angry
https://koreanstorylab.com/posts/expressions/화가-나다-to-become-angry/
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Korean Story Lab
Published at
2025-05-31