밥

Pattern visualization

Examples

1. 저녁에 밥을 먹어요.▶ —
   I eat dinner in the evening.
2. 밥 먹었어요?▶ —
   Have you eaten?

Collocations

Mnemonic

bap means "cooked rice", but by extension any "meal". The greeting bap meogeosseoyo? ("have you eaten?") works as a warm "how are you?". Rice is so central that meals are named by it.

Quick check

1. What does the greeting bap meogeosseoyo? function as?

   • a warm "how are you?"
   • an order to eat
   • a goodbye
   • a thank-you