Korean

edit

Etymology

edit

Ablaut variant of 헛갈리다 (heotgallida), from 헛– (heot–, “futilely, wrongly”) + 갈리다 (gallida, “to be divided”).

Pronunciation

edit
Romanizations
Revised Romanization?hetgallida
Revised Romanization (translit.)?hesgallida
McCune–Reischauer?hetkallida
Yale Romanization?heyskallita

Verb

edit

헷갈리다 (hetgallida) (infinitive 헷갈려 or 헷갈리어, sequential 헷갈리니)

  1. (intransitive) to be mixed (confusedly), to be hardly distinguishable
  2. (intransitive) to be thrown into confusion, to be confused

Conjugation

edit