Word details
꿈
- Pronunciation
- 꿈
- Part of speech
- noun
- Vocabulary level
- beginner
dream
A mental phenomenon during one's sleep, in which one sees, hears, and feels just as if one is awake.
goal; wish
A wish or goal one wants to accomplish in the future.
vain hope
A vain expectation or thought about something, whose possibility is extremely low or none.
Idioms
꿈(을) 깨다
awake from a dream
To lower one's hope or give up frothy thinking.
꿈도 못 꾸다
be unable to even have a dream
To be unable to think of doing something since one sees oneself as incapable of doing it.
꿈도 안 꾸다
not even have a dream
To not think of doing something since one sees oneself as incapable of doing it.
꿈도 야무지다
have a firm and tight dream
(sarcastic) For an expectation or hope to be so big that it has little chance of being realized.
꿈에도 생각지 못하다
be unable to think of something even in a dream
To be unable to think at all.
꿈에도 없다
be not even in dreams
To have never given something a thought.
꿈인지 생시인지
Is it a dream or reality?
An expression to describe one's perplexed and puzzled feeling when something completely unexpected happens.
Is it a dream or reality?
An expression to describe one's feeling when something that one has been longing for comes true, but one still feels it is a dream, not a reality.
Proverbs
꿈도 꾸기 전에 해몽
interpret a dream even before actually dreaming
To imagine and expect something as one likes even though no one can be sure how it will turn out.
꿈보다 해몽이 좋다
Interpretation of a dream is better than the dream itself
To interpret something trivial or not to one's liking as good.
Interpretation of a dream is better than the dream itself
It is always important to identify the essence, not the phenomenon that appears on the surface.