억양

eogyang · [어걍]

intonation · accent

nounIntermediate

Meanings

  1. intonation; accentAn act of changing the rise and fall of the voice, or such a change.

Written Forms

억양Hangul
抑揚Hanja

Examples from Lessons (3)

The second strategy is to pay attention to the speaker's intonation and attitude.

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Your intonation in that last sentence was very natural.

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듣다 보니 억양이 확실히 다르긴 하더라.

Now that I listen, the intonation is definitely different.

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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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