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4 Dec 2021
- Simplified Chinese (China)
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Korean
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English (US)
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Malay
Question about Korean
What is the difference between 민망하다 and 어색하다 ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
What is the difference between 민망하다 and 어색하다 ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
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- French (France)
- English (US) Near fluent
민망하다 is to be embarrassed and 어색하다 is to be awkward
- Korean
They have kind of a mutual feeling of "awkward".
But 민망하다 can also mean "embarrassed". And 어색하다 can also mean "not familar with" or "strange".
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