How to Say “Please swap it for a different one” in Korean

다른 걸로 바꿔 주세요

dareun geollo bakkwo juseyo

Situation: Shopping & pricesLevel: Intermediate (TOPIK 3–4)

Meaning

Please swap it for a different one.

바꾸다 means “to change.” Works for products, seats, or orders.

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

Ask staff to replace something, such as a wrong dish or a different size. Start with 이거 so they know what to swap.

걸로 is the spoken short form of 것으로, and the 로 matters because it means “with a different one”. Without it the request is unclear.

Syllables: 9 · Words: 4

It is pronounced just as it is written.

Syllable	Letters (consonant + vowel + final)	Romanization
다른
다	ㄷ+ㅏ	da
른	ㄹ+ㅡ+ㄴ	reun
걸로
걸	ㄱ+ㅓ+ㄹ	geol
로	ㄹ+ㅗ	lo
바꿔
바	ㅂ+ㅏ	ba
꿔	ㄲ+ㅝ	kkwo
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
주다	verb	to give	TOPIK level 1

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Answer: 다른 걸로 바꿔 주세요 dareun geollo bakkwo juseyo

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