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What does "인정" mean?injeong

Facts / agreed — "I acknowledge that".

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How it's actually used

Dropped alone to agree hard with what someone just said, the way English uses "facts". You will also see 인정? 어 인정 — "right?" "yeah, right" — as a set call-and-response, and ㅇㅈ as the initials-only version.

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Where it comes from

A plain noun meaning "recognition" or "acknowledgement", repurposed as a one-word yes.

Before you say it

Casual and very online. In a formal setting 인정 goes back to meaning literal official recognition.

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