This is a collection of basic vocabulary for the Korean language, including around 200 words.
Learn to count and express quantities with basic numerals, cardinal and ordinal numbers, and numerical expressions
0
์
yeongzero
1
ํ๋
hanaone
2
๋
dultwo
3
์
setthree
4
๋ท
netfour
5
๋ค์ฏ
daseotfive
6
์ฌ์ฏ
yeoseotsix
7
์ผ๊ณฑ
ilgopseven
8
์ฌ๋
yeodeoleight
9
์ํ
ahopnine
10
์ด
yeolten
11
์ดํ๋
yeolhanaeleven
12
์ด๋
yeoldutwelve
13
์ด์
yeolsetthirteen
14
์ด๋ท
yeolnetfourteen
15
์ด๋ค์ฏ
yeoldaseotfifteen
16
์ด์ฌ์ฏ
yeolyeoseotsixteen
17
์ด์ผ๊ณฑ
yeol-ilgopseventeen
18
์ด์ฌ๋
yeolyeodeoleighteen
19
์ด์ํ
yeorahopnineteen
20
์ค๋ฌผ
seumultwenty
30
์๋ฅธ
seoreunthirty
40
๋งํ
maheunforty
50
์ฐ
swinfifty
60
์์
yesunsixty
70
์ผํ
ilheunseventy
80
์ฌ๋
yeodeuneighty
90
์ํ
aheunninety
100
๋ฐฑ
baekhundred
1K
์ฒ
cheonthousand
1M
๋ฐฑ๋ง
baengmanmillion
Explore basic and advanced colors, shades, and descriptive terms for talking about the visual world around you
โช
ํ์
hayanwhite
โซ
๊ฒ์์
geomeunsaekblack
๐ด
๋นจ๊ฐ
ppalganred
๐ต
ํ๋์
paransaekblue
๐ก
๋ ธ๋์
noransaekyellow
๐ข
์ด๋ก์
choroksaekgreen
๐ฃ
๋ณด๋ผ์
borasaekpurple
๐ค
๊ฐ์
galsaekbrown
๐
์ฃผํฉ์
juhwangsaekorange
๐ธ
๋ถํ์
bunhongsaekpink
โญ
๊ธ์
geumsaekgold
๐
์์
eunsaeksilver
โ๏ธ
ํ์
hoesaekgrey
Discover vocabulary for domestic pets, farm animals, wild creatures, and exotic species from around the world
๐ถ
๊ฐ
gaedog
๐ฑ
๊ณ ์์ด
goyang-icat
๐ด
๋ง
malhorse
๐ฎ
์
socow
๐ท
๋ผ์ง
dwaejipig
๐ฆ
์
saebird
๐
๋ฌผ๊ณ ๊ธฐ
mulgogifish
๐ญ
์ฅ
jwimouse
๐ฆ
์ฌ์ฐ
yeoufox
๐
ํ ๋ผ
tokkirabbit
๐ป
๊ณฐ
gombear
๐ผ
ํ๋ค
pandapanda
๐จ
์ฝ์๋ผ
koallakoala
๐
์ฝ๋ผ๋ฆฌ
kokkirielephant
๐ข
๊ฑฐ๋ถ์ด
geobugiturtle
๐ฆ
๊ธฐ๋ฆฐ
giringiraffe
๐ฆ
์ค๋ฆฌ
oriduck
๐ท๏ธ
๊ฑฐ๋ฏธ
geomispider
Learn words for immediate and extended family members, relationships, and terms for describing different types of people
๐จโ๐ฉโ๐งโ๐ฆ
๊ฐ์กฑ
gajokfamily
๐ง
๋จ์
namjaman
๐ฉ
์ฌ์
yeojawoman
๐ฆ
์๋
sonyeonboy
๐ง
์ฌ์์์ด
yeoja-aigirl
๐ถ
์์ด
aichild
๐จโ๐ฆณ
์๋ฒ์ง
abeojifather
๐ฉโ๐ฆณ
์ด๋จธ๋
eomeonimother
๐ด
ํ ์๋ฒ์ง
harabeojigrandfather
๐ต
ํ ๋จธ๋
halmeonigrandmother
๐งโ๐ฆฐ
ํ์
hyeongjebrother
๐ฉโ๐ฆฑ
์๋งค
jamaesister
๐ง
์น๊ตฌ
chingufriend
๐ฅ
์ฌ๋๋ค
saramdeulpeople
๐
์ฌ๋
saramperson
Build vocabulary for everyday items, household objects, tools, and common things you encounter in daily life
๐
์ง
jiphouse
๐ข
๊ฑด๋ฌผ
geonmulbuilding
๐ซ
ํ๊ต
hakgyoschool
๐ช
๊ฐ๊ฒ
gagestore
๐ฃ๏ธ
๊ธธ
gilroad
๐
๋์
dosicity
๐ณ
๋๋ฌด
namutree
๐ง
๋ฌผ
mulwater
โ๏ธ
ํ์
taeyangsun
โ๏ธ
๊ตฌ๋ฆ
gureumcloud
๐
์ฑ
chaekbook
๐๏ธ
ํ
penpen
๐ฑ
์ ํ
jeonhwaphone
๐
์ด์
yeolsoekey
๐
์๋์ฐจ
jadongchacar
Master vocabulary for meals, snacks, beverages, cooking ingredients, and different types of cuisine from various cultures
๐
์ฌ๊ณผ
sagwaapple
๐
๋ฐ๋๋
bananabanana
๐
๋นต
ppangbread
๐ง
์น์ฆ
chijeucheese
๐ฅฉ
๊ณ ๊ธฐ
gogimeat
๐ฅ
์ฐ์
uyumilk
โ
์ปคํผ
keopicoffee
๐ต
์ฐจ
chatea
๐ง
๋ฌผ
mulwater
๐บ
๋งฅ์ฃผ
maekjubeer
๐ท
์์ธ
wainwine
๐ฝ๏ธ
์์
eumลikfood
๐ณ
๊ณ๋
gyeranegg
๐
์
ssalrice
๐ฅ
์ฑ์
chaesovegetables
Learn to express time concepts including days of the week, months, seasons, clock times, and temporal expressions
โ๏ธ
์ผ
ilday
๐
๋ฐค
bamnight
โฐ
์๊ฐ
siganhour
๐๏ธ
์ฃผ
juweek
๐
์
wolmonth
๐๏ธ
๋
nyeonyear
๐๏ธ
์์์ผ
woryoilMonday
๐๏ธ
ํ์์ผ
hwayoilTuesday
๐๏ธ
์์์ผ
suyoilWednesday
๐๏ธ
๋ชฉ์์ผ
mogyoilThursday
๐๏ธ
๊ธ์์ผ
geumyoilFriday
๐๏ธ
ํ ์์ผ
toyoilSaturday
๐๏ธ
์ผ์์ผ
iryoilSunday
๐
์์นจ
achimmorning
๐
์ ๋
jeonyeokevening
๐
์ง๊ธ
jigeumnow
๐
๊ณง
gotsoon
๐
์๊ฐ
sigantime
Essential action words and verbs for describing activities, states of being, and both physical and mental actions
๐ฃ๏ธ
๋งํ๋ค
malhadato speak
๐ถ
๊ฑท๋ค
geotdato walk
๐
๋ฌ๋ฆฌ๋ค
dallidato run
๐ฝ๏ธ
๋จน๋ค
meokdato eat
๐ท
๋ง์๋ค
masidato drink
๐ด
์๋ค
jadato sleep
๐
์ฝ๋ค
ikdato read
โ๏ธ
์ฐ๋ค
sseudato write
๐
๋ณด๋ค
bodato see
๐
๋ฃ๋ค
deutdato hear
๐ญ
์๊ฐํ๋ค
saenggakadato think
๐ค
์๋ค
aldato know
โค๏ธ
์ฌ๋ํ๋ค
saranghadato love
๐
์ข์ํ๋ค
joh-ahadato like
๐
์ค๋ค
odato come
๐ช
์ด๋ค
yeoldato open
๐
๋ซ๋ค
datdato close
๐ก
๋ฐฐ์ฐ๋ค
baeudato learn
โ
์ฃผ๋ค
judato give
๐ธ
์ฌ๋ค
sadato buy
Expand your descriptive vocabulary with words for qualities, characteristics, emotions, and properties of things
๐
ํ๋ณตํ
haengbokhanhappy
๐ข
์ฌํ
seulpeunsad
๐
ํ๋
hwananangry
๐
์ข์
joeungood
๐
๋์
nappeunbad
โฌ๏ธ
ํฐ
keunbig
โฌ๏ธ
์์
jageunsmall
๐
์๋ก์ด
saerounnew
๐ฐ๏ธ
์ค๋๋
oraedoenold
๐ฏ
๋ง์
manheunmany
๐ค
๋ช๋ช
myeochmyeochfew
๐ฅต
๋จ๊ฑฐ์ด
tteugeounhot
๐ฅถ
์ถ์ด
chuuncold
๐ช
๊ฐํ
ganghanstrong
๐ถ
์ฝํ
yakhanweak
โจ
์๋ฆ๋ค์ด
areumdaunbeautiful
๐น
๋ชป์๊ธด
motsaengginugly
โ
์ ํํ
jeonghwakhancorrect
โ
ํ๋ฆฐ
teullinwrong
โก
๋น ๋ฅธ
ppareunfast
Master conjunctions, transitions, and linking expressions to connect ideas and create more complex, flowing sentences
โ
๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ
geurigoand
โก๏ธ
ํ์ง๋ง
hajimanbut
๐
๋๋
tto-neunor
๐ค
๋๋ฌธ์
ttaemunebecause
๐
๊ทธ๋์
geuraeseoso
๐คจ
๊ทธ๋ฌ๋
geureonahowever
๐ค
๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ฏ๋ก
geureomurotherefore
โ
๋ํ
ttohanalso
๐
์ธ์
eonjewhen
๐ค
๋ง์ฝ
manyakif
๐
์ ์
jeonebefore
๐
ํ
huafter
๐
์ดํ
ihusince
๐
๋์
dong-anwhile
Learn vocabulary for various careers, occupations, and professional roles across different industries and sectors
๐จโ๐ซ
์ ์๋
seonsaengnimteacher
๐งโโ๏ธ
์์ฌ
uisadoctor
๐ฉโ๐ป
์์ง๋์ด
enjinieoengineer
๐จโ๐ณ
์๋ฆฌ์ฌ
yorisachef
๐งโ๐พ
๋๋ถ
nongbufarmer
๐ฎ
๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ๊ด
gyeongchalgwanpolice officer
๐งโ๐จ
์์ ๊ฐ
yesulgaartist
๐งโ๐ผ
์ฌ๋ฌด์ง์
samujigwonoffice worker
๐ฌ
๊ณผํ์
gwahakjascientist
๐
ํ๋งค์
panmaewonsalesperson
Congratulations! You've just learned over 200 essential Korean words. This list is a fantastic starting point, but remember that consistency is key to true fluency.
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