Word details
내
- Pronunciation
- Part of speech
- no part of speech
- Vocabulary level
- none
- Homonyms
- 6
An abbreviated word for '나의(my)'
Idioms
내 말이 그 말(이다)
My word is that word
An expression used to show agreement with someone's opinion or suggestion.
Proverbs
내 손에 장을 지지겠다
I will set fire to my fingers; I will eat my hat
An expression used to guarantee one's own opinion or prediction will turn out to be right by swearing to do something cruel or extreme to oneself.
내 얼굴에 침 뱉기
spitting saliva on my own face; cut off one's nose to spite one's face
An expression used to describe a situation where one's scheme to harm someone boomerangs and harm oneself.
내 코가 석 자
My own nose is three feet long; have one's own fish to fry
An expression used to describe a situation where one's own business is so urgent and difficult that one cannot afford to help others.