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맘: Vocabulary #535

2026-03-19
2026-05-31

Example Sentences#

  1. 내 맘에 들어오는 바람1
    A breeze that touches my heart
    • 맘 is a casual contraction of 마음, meaning ‘heart’ or ‘mind’ and referring to one’s inner feelings and thoughts.
    • 에 is a particle indicating location.
  2. 내 맘이 이끄는 대로, 어디든지2
    Wherever my heart leads me
    • 맘 is a casual contraction of 마음, meaning ‘heart’ or ‘mind’ and referring to one’s inner feelings and thoughts.
    • 이 is a subject marker that identifies the noun as the entity that performs an action or is in a particular state.
  3. 부서질수록 내 맘 가벼워져3
    The more I break, the lighter I feel
    • 맘 is a casual contraction of 마음, meaning ‘heart’ or ‘mind’ and referring to one’s inner feelings and thoughts.
  4. 가벼운 바람에도 흔들리는 맘3
    A heart swayed by even the lightest breeze
    • 맘 is a casual contraction of 마음, meaning ‘heart’ or ‘mind’ and referring to one’s inner feelings and thoughts.

Footnotes#

  1. Sentence from Blue Breeze Song. ↩

  2. Sentence from Like A Paper Boat Song. ↩

  3. Sentence from Shattered Pieces Song. ↩ ↩2

맘: Vocabulary #535
https://koreanstorylab.com/posts/vocabulary/맘/
Author
Korean Story Lab
Published at
2026-03-19
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