애
Meanings
Noun
1. guy, person (usually rather young) (colloquial, sometimes slightly derogatory)
2. anxiety; impatience (idiomatic)
3. trouble; effort (idiomatic)
4. internal organs, especially the intestines (obsolete, original sense)
5. love (formal)
6. taṇhā or "craving", one of the pratītyasamutpāda, the source of human unhappiness (Buddhism)
Pronunciation
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Examples22
너 때문에 애가 탄다
You make me so anxious.
일본 애들
Japanese people
그 애 집까지 다시 태워다 줬어.
I gave him a lift back to his place.
톰은 집중하려고 애를 쓰고 있어.
Tom is having a hard time focusing.
난 집중하려고 애를 쓰고 있어.
I'm having a hard time concentrating.
애 이름을 한글 이름으로 지을 거라고 했다.
He said he would give his child a native Korean name (i.e. not a Sino-Korean one).