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First words: what children learn to say first

201 words, in teaching order

Words 1–100
엄마
mum, mummy
Noun
아빠
dad, papa
Noun
과자
sweet; confection; candy; pastry; cake; cookie; cracker
Noun
까까
snack; cookie
Noun
물
water; influence; taint (with verbs 들다 (deulda) or 먹다 (meokda))
Noun
아기
unweaned baby, child; animal baby; one's young daughter or daughter-in-law
Noun
아가
baby; agar; elegant song
Noun
네
yes
Interjection
응
yes
Interjection
공
ball; merits; exploit; meritorious service; gong; public affairs; duke; seme
Noun
쉬
pee-pee, wee-wee; fly egg
Noun
아니
no; oh; why; my
Interjection
싫다
to be disagreeable; to disapprove; to be hateful
Adjective
안녕
hello, hey; good-bye
Interjection
빵
bread
Noun
우유
cow's milk
Noun
코
nose; nasal fluid; tip; a stitch in knitting; a knot in a net
Noun
눈
eye (organ allowing animals to see); appreciative eye (for), discerning eye (for); vision (the ability to see), eyesight; eyes, gaze; attention; point of view, viewpoint; snow; scale, graduation (on a measuring device); bud, shoot, sprout
Noun
빠이빠이
bye-bye
Interjection
개
dog; someone who behaves badly; someone who does the bidding of another; inlet; estuary; 2 points in yunnori
Noun
차
vehicle (usually refers to car); tea; difference; gap
Noun
자동차
automobile, car
Noun
할머니
grandmother; (by extension) elderly female
Noun
사탕
candy (piece of candy); sugar
Noun
양말
socks
Noun
신
god, deity; God; spirit; departed soul; someone who serves a monarch: a retainer, subject; shoes; footgear; joy; delight; amusement; scene (in a show, movie, drama, play, etc.); trustworthiness; the eighth of the ten heavenly stems
Noun
신발
shoes, footwear, footgear
Noun
꽃
flower; flowering plant; prime; central part; essence
Noun
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
책
book
Noun
손
hand (organ of humans and humanoid animals); free hand; visitor, guest; customer, patron; damage, loss (usually financial)
Noun
발
foot (of a human or amother animal); leg (of furniture, etc.); blind, screen, or curtain made with woven bamboo or reed strips, used especially for shielding from the sun; strands of noodles or string
Noun
고모
paternal aunt (one's father's sister); a tall hat worn by nobles during ceremonies
Noun
이모
maternal aunt (one's mother's sister); madam (when one calls a middle-aged waitress); having the same father but a different mother; emo (music genre)
Noun
귀
ear, auricle; spout, lip (for pouring); corner, edge, protrusion; eye of a needle
Noun
입
mouth; lips; a man's word; the number of people who eat food
Noun
뜨겁다
to be hot (of the temperature of an object); to be passionate
Adjective
바나나
banana
Noun
할아버지
grandfather; elderly male
Noun
머리
head; intelligence; hair; the leader of a group; the radical at the top of a Chinese character; the top or front of an object
Noun
바지
pants, trousers; pants, trousers 바지를 입다 baji-reul ipda to wear (to put on) trousers.; 바지를 입다; baji-reul ipda; to wear (to put on) trousers.; boyfriend
Noun
사과
apple; apology
Noun
모자
hat, cap; mother and son
Noun
고기
meat; flesh; fish (animal); a historical record; an ancient document
Noun
컵
cup (drinking vessel); cup (unit of measure); cup (part of bra)
Noun
배
abdomen, belly (of a human or animal); abdomen (of an arthropod); belly, bowels, stomach; the womb, the uterus; the belly of an object; the bulging side of an object; ship, boat, vessel (of any size); pear (the fruit); double, twice, twofold; times, -fold; yours truly, yours faithfully (respectful term placed after one's own name at the end of a letter)
Noun
사랑하다
to love
Verb
버스
bus
Noun
풍선
balloon
Noun
기린
a giraffe (mammal); a qilin
Noun
아프다
to be painful, to hurt
Adjective
곰
bear (animal); a thick, dull fellow
Noun
칫솔
toothbrush
Noun
이불
blanket; duvet
Noun
나무
tree; wood
Noun
옷
clothing; clothes
Noun
고맙다
thankful
Adjective
포도
grape (fruit); grapevine (Vitis vinifera)
Noun
목욕
bath, bathing
Noun
나비
butterfly; kitty
Noun
약
drug; medicine; a yak, an ancient notched vertical bamboo flute of Chinese origin with three fingerholes used today only in Confucian ritual music and dance in South Korea; Any combination of hwatu cards that scores points; yaku.; A four of a kind of hwatu cards of the same month that scores points.
Noun
인형
doll, puppet, action figure, any small human form; stuffed animal
Noun
고양이
cat
Noun
기저귀
diaper
Noun
뽀뽀하다
to kiss, to peck (to touch with the lips)
Verb
돼지
pig, swine; a fat person
Noun
새
bird (in general); contraction of 사이 (sai, “gap; space between”); a general term for any plant from the family Poaceae: the true grasses; Arundinella hirta (a type of grass native to East Asia); straw thatch used for roofing; synonym of 국새(國璽) (guksae, “royal seal; state seal”); east
Noun
배꼽
navel (remnant of umbilical cord)
Noun
아이스크림
ice cream (dessert)
Noun
코끼리
elephant
Noun
주스
juice (beverage made of juice)
Noun
자
ruler, rule, straightedge; ja or Korean foot, a traditional unit of length equivalent to about 30.3 cm.
Noun
의자
chair, sofa
Noun
전화
telephone, phone; transformation, conversion, change; war, the conflagration of battle; war calamity or catastrophe; electrification
Noun
호랑이
tiger
Noun
기차
train
Noun
문
door; phylum; mun; the former currency of Korea; ask, question
Noun
안다
to hug, to embrace; to take on (a debt, responsibility, etc.)
Verb
가방
bag; briefcase
Noun
앉다
to sit, to squat; to be located somewhere
Verb
비행기
airplane
Noun
계란
chicken egg
Noun
달걀
a hen's egg
Noun
베개
pillow
Noun
수박
watermelon
Noun
먹다
to eat, drink, have, consume (food or liquid); to pocket, embezzle, seize upon; to receive, get; to make up (one's mind), be determined; to grow older; to screw, fuck
Verb
비
rain; the suit of rain or willow in hwatu playing cards, representing the month of December; broom; gravestone; tombstone; stone engraved with memorial text
Noun
말
speech; language; horse; playing piece (in games); sawhorse; a unit of volume equivalent to about 18 L or 10 되 (doe); wooden pile; stake; an alga or other waterborne cryptogam; seaweed, specifically Potamogeton oxyphyllus.; end (of a period); late; …
Noun
소
cow; bull; ox; cattle; small (in terms of size or scale); stuffing, filling (in rice cakes, dumplings, etc.)
Noun
사자
a lion (big cat Panthera leo); a messenger; an envoy; an emissary; dead person
Noun
안경
glasses, spectacles
Noun
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
다리
bridge; leg; arm; someone else; other person
Noun
이거
this thing, this matter
Pronoun
오리
duck (in general, especially domesticated); sliver (long, thin strip of cloth, wood, bamboo, etc.)
Noun
많이
many, much, a lot, plenty, in abundance
Adverb
많다
many, much, a lot, plentiful
Adjective
물고기
fish (as living animals)
Noun
수건
towel
Noun
비누
soap
Noun