“Could you tell me the way” in Korean: 길 좀 알려 주세요

길 좀 알려 주세요

gil jom allyeo juseyo

Situation: Getting around & directionsLevel: Starter (just learning Hangul)

Meaning

Could you tell me the way?

Adding 좀 (“a little”) softens the request and makes it sound more polite. Showing a map app while you say it helps a lot.

Romanization follows the Revised Romanization system and is a guide to pronunciation.

Ask a passerby for directions. Start with 저기요 and add 길 좀 알려 주세요 to sound softer.

알려 주세요 means “tell me (information)”, while 가르쳐 주세요 means “teach me”. Don’t mix them up when asking for directions.

Syllables: 7 · Words: 4

In natural speech, sounds link and shift across words. The table below reads each word separately, as it sounds when said on its own.

Syllable	Letters (consonant + vowel + final)	Romanization
길	ㄱ+ㅣ+ㄹ	gil
좀	ㅈ+ㅗ+ㅁ	jom
알려
알	ㅇ+ㅏ+ㄹ	al
려	ㄹ+ㅕ	lyeo
주세요
주	ㅈ+ㅜ	ju
세	ㅅ+ㅔ	se
요	ㅇ+ㅛ	yo

A ㅇ at the start of a syllable is silent; at the end of a syllable it sounds like “ng”.

Style: Polite (해요체)Sentence type: Request

Ends in -요. The everyday polite style, and a safe choice with shop staff, colleagues, strangers and anyone older than you.

It contains the honorific -(으)시-, which shows respect to the person being talked about or talked to.

These words from the TOPIK vocabulary lists appear in the phrase (shown in dictionary form).

Korean	Part of speech	Meaning	Level
길	noun	road, way	TOPIK level 1
주다	verb	to give	TOPIK level 1

불가피한 사정으로 회의가 연기되었음을 알려 드립니다We would like to inform you that the meeting has been postponed due to unavoidable circumstances

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Question 1 What does “길 좀 알려 주세요” mean?

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Answer: Could you tell me the way?

Question 2 How do you say “Could you tell me the way?” in Korean?

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Answer: 길 좀 알려 주세요 gil jom allyeo juseyo

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