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KOREAN VERB

웃기다

to make someone laugh; to be funny

  • Verb

Conjugation

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Present

현재 · now and habits: polite, formal and casual speech

Form Polite Formal Casual
AffirmativeI make someone laugh
NegativeI don’t make someone laugh

Past

과거 · finished actions: 갔어요, 갔습니다, 갔어

Form Polite Formal Casual
AffirmativeI made someone laugh
NegativeI didn’t make someone laugh

Future

미래 · plans and guesses: -(으)ㄹ 거예요

Form Polite Formal Casual
AffirmativeI will make someone laugh
NegativeI won’t make someone laugh

Honorific

높임말 · to or about an elder: the -시- forms

Form Polite Formal
PresentI make someone laugh (respectfully)
PastI made someone laugh (respectfully)
FutureI will make someone laugh (respectfully)

Connectives

연결 어미 · and, so, if, because, but: joining two sentences

  1. And (-고) making someone laugh, and…, and…
  2. So, and then (-아/어서) making someone laugh, and…, so…
  3. If, when (-(으)면) if I make someone laugh
  4. Because (-(으)니까) because I make someone laugh
  5. But (-지만) I make someone laugh, but…

Requests and commands

명령형 · -(으)세요, -(으)십시오, the casual form, -지 마세요

  1. Please (-(으)세요) please make someone laugh
  2. Formal request (-(으)십시오) please make someone laugh (formal)
  3. Plain command make someone laugh! (casual)
  4. Please don’t please don’t make someone laugh

How to use 웃기다

One sentence for each tense, the way people say it.

  1. Present

    이 한국 드라마 진짜 웃겨요.

    This Korean drama is really funny.

  2. Past

    민준이가 어제 반 친구들을 다 웃겼어요.

    Min-jun made the whole class laugh yesterday.

  3. Future

    오늘 공연은 사람들을 많이 웃길 거예요.

    Tonight's show will make people laugh a lot.

  4. Honorific

    할아버지는 농담으로 늘 우리를 웃기세요.

    Grandpa always makes us laugh with his jokes.

  5. Connectives

    그 영화는 웃기지만 끝은 슬퍼요.

    That film is funny, but the ending is sad.

  6. Requests and commands

    수업 시간에 친구들을 웃기지 마세요.

    Don't make your friends laugh during class.

Good to know

  • 웃기다 is both "it's funny" (웃겨요) and to make someone laugh; 웃다 is just to laugh.

Where you hear 웃기다

The lessons that teach a form of it, and how they say it.

Korean · Advanced Level 3

  • 형은 아기를 잘 웃겨요. Eli is good at making the baby laugh.
  • 어제 민준이가 하은이를 웃겼어요. Yesterday Min-jun made Ha-eun laugh.
  • 사진 찍고 나서 웃길 거예요. I'll make her laugh after the photo.

Korean · Fluency Level 1

  • 형은 아기를 잘 웃겨요. Eli is good at making the baby laugh.
  • 어제 민준이가 하은이를 웃겼어요. Yesterday Min-jun made Ha-eun laugh.
  • 사진 찍고 나서 웃길 거예요. I'll make her laugh after the photo.
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The passport photo

Advanced Level 3 · 웃기지 마세요.

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Eli's first joke

Fluency Level 1 · 쌤치고는 웃겨. 호진이면 기적이야.

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