겁

geop · [겁]

fear · fright

nounIntermediate

Meanings

  1. fear; frightA state of mind when one is scared or anxious.

Written Forms

겁Hangul
怯Hanja

Examples from Lessons (3)

Question 54 is so long that I'm really intimidated to even start.

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I guess he's just afraid of being rejected.

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I'm scared that other people might misunderstand me if I do.

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Grammar in These Examples

Korean definitions, pronunciations and learner levels are from the Basic Korean Dictionary (한국어기초사전) by the National Institute of Korean Language, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 KR.

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