Roll in Korean 🇰🇷

말다 info.

Tips to Remember:
• Picture making kimbap: you roll (말다, mal-da) rice and ingredients in seaweed, which helps link the idea of “rolling” with the Korean verb.
• Notice that the sound “mal” in Korean is similar to “roll” when you imagine rolling up a mat.

Explanation:
• 말다 (mal-da) is a basic verb meaning “to roll” (e.g., to roll up food like kimbap or a cigarette).
• Although in other contexts 말다 can also mean “to stop” or “to not do something,” here we focus on its physical sense of “rolling.”

Other Words with Similar Meanings:
• 돌돌 말다 (dol-dol mal-da) – to roll tightly or roll up.
• 감다 (gam-da) – to wind or coil (often used for things like winding hair or wrapping a scarf).

Conjugations of 말다 (Infinitive form: mal-da):

• Present Tense (Polite Informal):
 – 말아요 (mal-ayo)
 Example: “Roll the dough tightly.” → “반죽을 단단히 말아요.” (ban-juk-eul dan-dan-hi mal-ayo)

• Past Tense (Polite Informal):
 – 말았어요 (mal-ass-eo-yo)
 Example: “I rolled the kimbap.” → “나는 김밥을 말았어요.” (na-neun gim-bab-eul mal-ass-eo-yo)

• Future Tense (Polite Informal):
 – 말겠어요 (mal-ge-sseo-yo)
 Example: “I will roll the pastry soon.” → “나는 곧 페이스트리를 말겠어요.” (na-neun god pe-i-seu-teu-ri-reul mal-ge-sseo-yo)

• Present Tense (Polite Formal):
 – 말습니다 (mal-seum-ni-da)
 Example: “He rolls the cigarette carefully.” → “그는 담배를 조심히 말습니다.” (geu-neun dam-bae-reul jo-sim-hi mal-seum-ni-da)

Examples of Sentences:
1. “Please roll the wrapper evenly.”
 → “포장을 고르게 말아 주세요.”
  (Romanized: po-jang-eul go-reu-ge mal-a ju-se-yo.)

2. “They rolled the towel after use.”
 → “그들은 사용 후 타월을 말았어요.”
  (Romanized: geu-deul-eun sa-yong hu ta-wol-eul mal-ass-eo-yo.)

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