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완전히

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Meaning and Usage

'완전히' is an adverb meaning 'completely' or 'perfectly'. It emphasizes that something is done or happens in a full, total, or thorough manner without any remainder or exception.

Common Contexts

You will often see '완전히' used with verbs related to understanding, solving, changing, or finishing something. It stresses the completeness or perfection of the action.

Collocations and Patterns

  • 완전히 해결되다: to be completely solved
  • 완전히 이해하다: to completely understand
  • 완전히 다르다: to be completely different

These collocations highlight how '완전히' modifies verbs or adjectives to stress totality.

Register and Politeness

'완전히' is neutral and can be used in both formal and informal contexts without changing form.

Common Mistakes

Learners sometimes confuse '완전히' with '전혀' (not at all) or '완전' (a noun or informal adverb). Remember, '완전히' is the proper adverb form to express 'completely' in standard Korean.

Example Sentences

그 문제는 완전히 해결되었다.

Geu munjeneun wanjeonhi haegyeoldoe-eotda.

That problem was completely solved.

나는 그 사실을 완전히 이해하지 못했다.

Naneun geu sasireul wanjeonhi ihaehaji mothaetda.

I did not completely understand that fact.

완전히 다른 이야기야.

Wanjeonhi dareun iyagiya.

It's a completely different story.