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mwo

what (casual)

Part of speech · pronoun

Pattern visualization

Syllable → jamo breakdown (RR romanization)
minitial+womedial

Examples

  1. 지금 뭐 해요?
    What are you doing now?
  2. 이거 뭐예요?
    What is this?

Collocations

뭐 해요뭐예요뭐 먹을까

Mnemonic

mwo is the casual "what", a contraction of the fuller mueot. mwo-yeyo? ("what is it?") is one of the first questions a learner uses. The polite full form mueot appears in writing and formal speech.

Quick check

  1. mwo is a contraction of which fuller form?

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