Word details
제
- Part of speech
- no part of speech
- Vocabulary level
- intermediate
- Homonyms
- 5
je
An abbreviated word for '저의', a combination of '저' and the self-lowering form of '나', and '의.'
je
An abbreviated word for '저의', a combination of '저', the word used to describe a third person, and '의.'
Idioms
제 눈에 안경
glasses for one's own eyes
An expression meaning that even a very trivial thing looks good if you like it.
Proverbs
제 꾀에 (제가) 넘어간다
have something undone by one's own trick; The biter is bitten; Many go for wool and come home shorn
To be cheated by one's own trick that was devised to cheat someone.
제 논에 물 대기
irrigate one's own rice paddy
An expression to describe the attitude of doing something only to one's own advantage.
제 버릇 개 줄까
You cannot pass your habit on to a dog
An expression meaning a bad habit that was acquired is hard to break.
제 살 깎아 먹기
peel and eat one's own flesh; Cut off one's nose to spite one's face; Curses, like chickens, come home to roost
An expression meaning what one has done boomerangs and does harm to oneself.
제 코가 석 자
One's 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.