Cool down in Korean 🇰🇷

식다 info.

Tips to Remember:
• Associate “식다” (shik-da) with a hot bowl of food that’s slowly cooling down. Imagine the food “sinking” in temperature—just as “식다” sounds like “sick” (minus the negative meaning), think of it as the food losing its intense heat.
• Visualize the process: from steaming hot to pleasantly cool; the sound “식” can remind you of “sinking” heat.

Explanations:
• “식다” means “to cool down” or “to become cool.” It’s used when something loses its heat naturally.
• It often refers to food or beverages, but can also metaphorically describe situations that calms down.

Other Words with Similar Meaning:
• “식어지다” (shik-uh-ji-da) – means “to become cool” or “to chill.”
• “차가워지다” (cha-ga-wo-ji-da) – means “to become cold,” though it emphasizes a change into a cold state rather than simply cooling down.

Conjugations (Infinitive: 식다):
• Present Polite: 식어요 (shik-eo-yo)
• Past Polite: 식었어요 (shik-eo-sseo-yo)
• Future Polite: 식을 거예요 (shik-eul geo-ye-yo)
• Present Informal Low: 식어 (shik-eo)
• Past Informal Low: 식었어 (shik-eo-sseo)
• Future Informal Low: 식을 거야 (shik-eul geo-ya)

Example Sentences:
• “The soup is cooling down.”
→ 국이 조금 식었어요. (Gug-i jo-geum shik-eo-sseo-yo.)
• “Wait a moment until the coffee cools down.”
→ 커피가 식을 때까지 기다려. (Keo-pi-ga shik-eul ttae-kkaji gi-da-ryeo.)
• “After getting off the stove, the stew cools down quickly.”
→ 난로에서 내리자 국물이 빨리 식어요. (Nan-ro-e-seo nae-ri-ja guk-mul-i ppal-li shik-eo-yo.)

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