What’s your name? in Korean 🇰🇷

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What’s your name?	이름이 뭐에요?

How to say “What’s your name?” in Korean? “이름이 뭐에요?”. Here you will learn how to pronounce “이름이 뭐에요?” correctly and in the comments below you will be able to get all sorts of advice on What’s your name? in Korean like tips & tricks to remember it, questions, explanations and more.

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"이름이 뭐에요?" breaks down as follows:

• "이름" means "name."
• "이" is a subject marker attached to "이름," indicating "name" as the subject.
• "뭐" is a colloquial shortening of "무엇," meaning "what."
• "에요" is the polite ending of the copula (from "이다," meaning "is").

Romanized, the sentence is pronounced as "Ireumi mwoeyo?"

Tips to remember:
• Note that the subject marker "이" attaches directly to nouns ending in a consonant (here, "이름").
• Recognize that "뭐" stands for "what," and the ending "에요" makes the sentence polite.

Alternate ways to ask "What's your name?":
• "이름이 어떻게 되세요?" (Romanized: "Ireumi eotteoke doeseyo?") – This literally asks, "How does your name become?"
• "성함이 어떻게 되세요?" (Romanized: "Seonghami eotteoke doeseyo?") – Using the honorific "성함" for "name" when addressing someone respectfully.

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