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“Aigoo” (아이고) — one sound doing six different jobs

September 24, 2026September 21, 2026 by mataXinfo
아이고 (aigoo) word card

Sympathy, exhaustion, affection, exasperation, shock and grief, all from the same two syllables. English splits those across five different words and picks wrong.

Categories Things They Say Tags aigoo, interjections, subtitles, tone Leave a comment

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Korean words, honorifics and lines that subtitles cannot carry across. One word per article: what it means, what the subtitle says, and what got dropped.

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