빨리
ppalri · TOPIK 1
quickly, fast
🐇 Sounds like pal-lee: Pal, Lee, hurry up — quickly!
빨리 comes from the adjective 빠르다 (to be fast) plus the adverb ending -이, so it literally means fast-ly. Koreans famously say it doubled, 빨리빨리, for hurry hurry — the tense double ㅃ gives it a punchy, urgent start.