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LEVEL 6 LESSON 13 - WORD BUILDER 10

Word Builder lessons are designed to help you understand how to expand your vocabu-
lary by learning/understanding some common and basic building blocks of Korean words. The
words and letters introduced through Word Builder lessons are not necessarily all Chinese char-

acters, or 한자 [han-ja]. Though many of them are based on Chinese characters, the meanings
can be different from modern-day Chinese. Your goal, through these lessons, is to understand
how words are formed and remember the keywords in Korean to expand your Korean vocabu-
lary from there. You certainly don’t have to memorize the Hanja characters, but if you want to,
feel free!

In this lesson, we are looking at the word 과 [gwa]. When 과 is written in Hanja as “ 過”, it
means “to surpass”, “to go over”, “to pass” or “too much”.

과 (to surpass, too much) + 식 (eat) = 과식 過食 [gwa-sik] = eating too much,

overeating

과 (to surpass, too much) + 음 (drink) = 과음 過飮 [gwa-eum] = drinking too

much, excessive drinking

과 (to surpass, too much) + 속 (to be fast) = 과속 過速 [gwa-sok] = speeding

통 (to go through) + 과 (to pass) = 통과 通過 [tong-gwa] = pass, passing

through, passing (a test)

간 (to see) + 과 (to pass) = 간과 看過 [gan-gwa] = failure to notice, passing

over

과 (too much) + 민 (agile, quick) = 과민 過敏 [gwa-min] = being hypersensitive

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LEVEL 6 LESSON 13 - WORD BUILDER 10

과 (too much) + 로 (labor) = 과로 過勞 [gwa-ro] = working too much, too

much labor

과 (to pass) + 거 (to go) = 과거 過去 the past [gwa-geo] =

과대 過大
과 (to surpass, too much) + 대 (to be big) = [gwa-dae] = too big, over-

sized

과 (to pass) + 정 (way, limit) = 과정 過程 [gwa-jeong] = process

과 (to surpass, too much) + 소비 (consumption) = 과소비 過消費 [gwa-so-bi] =

overspending, excessive consumption

과 (too much) + 신 (to believe) = 과신 過信 [gwa-sin] = overconfidence

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