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๋น vs ๋น
๋น: “light” – natural or artificial illumination.
Example 1: “์ด ๋ฐฉ์ ๋น์ด ๋ง์ด ๋ค์ด์.” (This room gets a lot of light.)
Example 2: “ํ์์ ๋น์ด ์์นจ์ ๋ฐํ๋ค.” (The light of the sun brightened the morning.)
๋น: “debt” – when someone owes something, usually money.
Example 1: “๋๋ ์์ง ๋น์ ๊ฐ๊ณ ์์ด.” (I am still paying off a debt.)
Example 2: “๊ทธ๋ ์ค๋ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ๋์ ๋น์ ๊ฐ๋๋ผ ๊ณ ์ํ๋ค.” (He struggled for a long time to pay off his debt.)
๋น์ด ๋๋ค vs ๋น์ด ๋ฐ๋๋ค
๋น์ด ๋๋ค: “to shine” or “to be bright.” – describing something glowing.
Example 1: “๊ทธ๋
์ ๋ฏธ์๋ ์ ๋ง ๋น์ด ๋ฌ์ด.” (Her smile really shone.)
Example 2: “๋ณด์์ ๋น์ด ๋๋ฉฐ ๊ทธ ๊ฐ์น๋ฅผ ๋๋ฌ๋๋ค.” (The jewel shone, revealing its value.)
๋น์ด ๋ฐ๋๋ค: “to fade” or “to become dull.” – when brightness or color diminishes.
Example 1: “์ด ์ท์ ์ธํํ๋๊น ๋น์ด ๋ฐ๋ฌ์ด.” (The color of this cloth faded after washing.)
Example 2: “์๊ฐ์ด ์ง๋๋ฉด์ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์ ๋น์ด ๋ฐ๋์๋ค.” (Over time, the brightness of the painting faded.)
๊ณ์ vs ๊ณ์ข
๊ณ์ : “account” – specifically digital or online user accounts.
Example 1: “๋ด ๊ณ์ ๋น๋ฐ๋ฒํธ๋ฅผ ์์ด๋ฒ๋ ธ์ด.” (I forgot my account password.)
Example 2: “์ด๋ฉ์ผ ๊ณ์ ์ ์๋ก ๋ง๋ค์๋ค.” (I created a new email account.)
๊ณ์ข: “bank account” – used in banking and financial contexts.
Example 1: “์ํ ๊ณ์ข์ ๋์ ์
๊ธํด์ผ ํด.” (I need to deposit money into my bank account.)
Example 2: “๊ทธ๋ ์ฌ๋ฌ ์ํ์ ์ฌ๋ฌ ๊ณ์ข๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์ง๊ณ ์๋ค.” (He has multiple accounts in various banks.)


