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Everyday Korean: 28 lessons, from hello to the news

980 words, in teaching order

Words 201–300
계산
calculation, reckoning; pay
Noun
맛있다
delicious, tasty, something that tastes good; attractive, appealing, desirable; physically and/or sexually attractive, hot.
Adjective
맛없다
not tasting good; unskilled; bad (at something); poor; not well; awful; not beautiful; ugly
Adjective
배고프다
to be hungry
Adjective
목마르다
thirsty
Adjective
젓가락
chopsticks; mouthful (a unit used to count the amount of food that one can pick up with chopsticks)
Noun
숟가락
spoon (eating utensil)
Noun
맵다
spicy, hot (usually of food)
Adjective
달다
to become hot; to boil down; to be burning up with fever or shame; to feel that one's mouth or nose gets dry and hot; to be impatient; to swell with cold; to hang, to hoist; to attach; to install; to add explanation; …
Verb
잘 먹겠습니다
I/we will eat; let's eat (a stock phrase used before starting a meal)
Phrase
하다
to do; used to vaguely refer to almost any action, in particular; to prepare, to make (food, clothes, etc.); to make a certain facial expression; to have, to eat; to wear, to put on (accessories such as hats or jewelry); to run (an enterprise, etc.); to be, to take the responsibility of... (a charge, a role); to get (a result); to cost, to be worth (a certain price); to treat, to deal with; …
Verb
원하다
to want (for), to hope (for)
Verb
싶다
to be desirous of, to want; Used after a clause with a sentence ending that expresses a sentiment or subjective speculation, commonly -ㄴ가 (-n'ga), -나 (-na), -ㄹ까 (-lkka), -으면 (-eumyeon), and -다 (-da), to state that the subject feels that certain way.
Adjective
좋아하다
to like something or someone; to prefer
Verb
싫어하다
to detest, to loathe
Verb
알다
to know, understand (to have information or knowledge about an object or situation through education, experience, thoughts, etc.); to know; realize (to realize or feel a fact or situation through awareness or senses.); to know; understand; appreciate (to realize or feel a psychological state in one's mind.); be on one's own; be independent; to know; can; be one's concern; to know; realize; realize the fun in; to care about; will; say yes; to regard; think of; …
Verb
모르다
to not know, to be ignorant of; to be possibly so; Used with 얼마나, 어찌, etc., for emphasis.; to not care
Verb
이해하다
to understand or comprehend
Verb
말하다
to speak, to talk; to explain (by talking)
Verb
공부하다
to study
Verb
일하다
to work, to do one's job; to labor; to serve, to work
Verb
살다
to live; to dwell
Verb
가다
to go; Marks a continuous action that either stretches from the present into the future, or involves physical movement away from the speaker.; to appear; to pass; to last; to be knocked out (e.g. by a blow, by alcohol, etc.); to orgasm; Used as the verbal element for nouns related to understanding or interest.; to pass away
Verb
오다
to come (to move towards the speaker); to fall; Marks a continuous action that stretches from the past into the present.
Verb
돌아가다
to return, to go back; to pass away (to die)
Verb
보다
to see, to look at, to watch (to perceive with the eyes); to look after (a baby, child, house, etc.); to try, to examine (before the meal or purchase); to experience; to try, to try out; Used to denote that the experience of the main verb has led to a certain conclusion or realization.; to consider, to regard; to read (not out loud); to meet (for a prearranged purpose); to take; …
Verb
듣다
to listen, to hear; to take a course, to take a subject; to be effective; to drip, to drop (nowadays only of drops of liquid)
Verb
묻다
to ask; to inquire; to charge (a person with); to care; to bury; to hide; to stick, adhere
Verb
만들다
to make; to establish (a law, club, etc.)
Verb
받다
to get, receive, take, obtain; to endure, suffer (pain, hardship, etc.); to bathe in (the sunlight, moonlight, spotlight, etc.); to collect (fees), accept (applications, etc.); to bear, prop, support; to be influenced or affected by; to hit, headbutt, gore; to be shot, hit, struck; to catch (a ball, water, etc.); to deliver (a baby); …
Verb
사다
to buy, to purchase; to cause, to incur, to evoke (an emotion or feeling)
Verb
읽다
to read
Verb
쓰다
to wear, to put on (a hat, helmet, etc., on one's head; a mask, pair of glasses, etc.); to put up, to hold (an umbrella over one's head); to be accused of, to be suspected of (an offence); to be covered (with dust, powder, etc.); to write (in general); to compose (a song, a piece of writing, etc.); to use (in general); to spend, to consume, to expend (money, time, resources, etc.); to speak (a language, a dialect, etc.); to hire, to employ; …
Verb
앉다
to sit, to squat; to be located somewhere
Verb
서다
to stand; to stop, to halt
Verb
자다
to sleep; to sleep (with)
Verb
일어나다
to arise, get up; to wake up; to occur; to happen
Verb
생각하다
to think
Verb
수
way, means, possibility, ability; used to express ability, in constructions equivalent to the English modal "can"; move; ability, talent, skill; number; destiny, fate (especially a favorable one); male (non-human); water, as one of the Five Phases of East Asian cosmology; embroidering (in cloth); vedanā (sensation in Buddhist philosophy); bottom (in a gay sexual relationship); uke; …
Noun
있다
to be (in a place); to exist; to have
Adjective
되다
to become; to come, to arrive; to be permissible; to be OK; may; to be... -ed; follows nouns and nominals to form passive verbs. The noun functions as the -이 (-i) / -가 (-ga)-complement of the verb. When there is no particle in between, the construction is written without spaces.; Forms certain adjectives.; to measure the amount of powder, grains, liquids, etc., using measurements such as 말 (mal), 되 (doe), and 홉 (hop)
Verb
기다리다
to wait for, to await; to look forward to
Verb
사용하다
to use
Verb
가지다
to have, to possess; to hold or bear a specific attitude or idea; to bear or conceive a child; to hold (organize) an event or meeting
Verb
만나다
to meet; to see (someone); to become acquainted with; to develop a relationship with; to encounter (an event); to experience; to meet with
Verb
들어가다
to go into; to enter; to go to; to attend (a school, institution etc); to begin; to be needed, required; to belong to (a species, genus etc.); to be understood
Verb
나가다
to go out; (contextually) to leave; to be disseminated, to spread outwards; to participate, to attend; to perform a task (in such a way); to weigh; to cost; to become defective; (of clothes) to become worn out; (of body parts) to become injured; to proceed; (of studying) to cover; to purposefully continue (to a satisfactory conclusion)
Verb
필요하다
to have a need; to be necessary, to be needed
Adjective
집
home, house; household; sheath, case
Noun
아파트
apartment building, block of flats; an apartment, a flat
Noun
방
room; notice (written to the public); list of successful candidates; the right-hand component of a Chinese character; fishing using a dragnet
Noun
부엌
kitchen
Noun
거실
living room, sitting room
Noun
침실
bedroom
Noun
화장실
bathroom; restroom; toilet
Noun
욕실
bathroom, bath
Noun
문
door; phylum; mun; the former currency of Korea; ask, question
Noun
창문
window
Noun
책상
desk
Noun
탁자
table
Noun
식탁
dinner table
Noun
의자
chair, sofa
Noun
침대
bed (furniture)
Noun
소파
sofa
Noun
옷장
wardrobe, closet
Noun
전등
light, lamp
Noun
열쇠
key; means
Noun
바닥
floor; bottom; a flat and usually low surface of a space or object; rock bottom; area, region; the weave of fabric
Noun
벽
wall; obstacle, hindrance; habit, eccentricity, idiosyncrasy; blue-green; remote, out of the way; uncommon, rare; jade; angelica
Noun
지붕
roof (top of a building or other object one can enter)
Noun
층
storey or floor; a layer; a level
Noun
엘리베이터
an elevator (permanent construction)
Noun
계단
stairs, staircase, stairway; ladder
Noun
정원
garden, vegetable garden, yard; capacity (number of people allowed in an elevator, boat, building, etc.); any fixed number or quota of people
Noun
냉장고
refrigerator
Noun
전자레인지
microwave oven (oven using microwave energy)
Noun
컵
cup (drinking vessel); cup (unit of measure); cup (part of bra)
Noun
그릇
bowl; vessel; caliber of a personality; one's capacity of forbearance
Noun
접시
plate, dish, saucer (flat tableware)
Noun
칼
knife, sword; cangue
Noun
포크
fork (eating utensil with spikes)
Noun
수건
towel
Noun
비누
soap
Noun
현관
front door; porch; vestibule
Noun
온돌
ondol, hypocaust (a Korean form of underfloor heating that uses direct heat transfer from wood smoke to the underside of a thick masonry floor)
Noun
텔레비전
television
Noun
세탁기
washing machine
Noun
크다
to be big, large (both physical and figurative); to be great; to be loud
Adjective
작다
to be small
Adjective
새롭다
to be new
Adjective
낡다
to become worn out, old; to become outdated, old-fashioned
Verb
예쁘다
to be pretty, lovely, beautiful, comely; to be adorable; to be nice, good
Adjective
아름답다
beautiful
Adjective
길다
to be long
Adjective
짧다
short
Adjective
덥다
to be hot (of the weather or outside temperature); to be hot (of an object)
Adjective
뜨겁다
to be hot (of the temperature of an object); to be passionate
Adjective
춥다
(to be) cold
Adjective
차갑다
to be cold (to the touch), icy, cold-hearted
Adjective
쉽다
to be easy; to be likely
Adjective