Words 1–100
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
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
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
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
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
오다
to come (to move towards the speaker); to fall; Marks a continuous action that stretches from the past into the present.
Verb
같다
the same; like or similar (often used with 와 (wa)/과 (gwa)); (to be) like; such as (indicates belonging to a similar group); look like; (to) resemble; to be something that one can guess, predict
Adjective
저
that, that thing; I, me; first-person singular polite pronoun; oneself; third-person plain reflexive pronoun
Pronoun
전
before; jeon, a fried, filled pancake-like food eaten in Korea; a cultivated patch of land; a monetary unit of North Korea and formerly of South Korea, equal to one hundredth of a won.; cent (a unit of currency)
Noun
주다
to give; for someone; forms benefactive verbs.; to supplement or add to something; to handle or reflect on something
Verb
다
all, completely; nearly, virtually; used to express mild surprise or sarcasm; with a verb in the past tense, used sarcastically to emphasize that the verb has not occurred
Adverb
일
work (activity done for compensation or reward); a fact, an event, a situation (any kind of occurrence); deed (any human activity); urination, defecation, sexual intercourse; day (twenty-four hours, a thirtieth of the month)
Noun
날
day (twenty-four hours, a thirtieth of the month); weather (mainly with adjectives describing the weather's state); daytime; blade, edge; warp, the longitudinal threads of woven cloth; only used in 날로 (nallo, “as something raw, as something uncooked”)
Noun
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
맞다
to be correct, right; to suit (one's liking), to meet (one's wishes); to agree (with), to be consistent (with); to be in harmony (with), to be in tune (with); to get, to be hit, to suffer; to get a blow, to be struck; to be caught in (rain, illness); to encounter (difficulty), to come across; to get (an injection), to get (a mark, a rating); to welcome, to receive; …
Verb
시간
time; hour; lesson; troubles or hardships of a specific time or era; necrophilia; protesting the monarch's action with one's death
Noun
자네
you, second person pronoun, used generally in addressing a person of distinctly lower status.
Pronoun
나다
to be born; to appear, arise, occur, take place; to break out, come out, turn out; to grow, spread; to spend or get through a season or period
Verb
놈
bastard; kid, boy (from an older perspective); Gyeongsang, Jeolla dialect, Gangwon, Hwanghae, Pyongan, and Hamgyong form of 남 (nam, “other person, stranger”)
Noun
어
uh-huh, yes; ah!, oh!; conveys surprise, urgency, or strong emotion; huh?; conveys confusion
Interjection
잡다
to take, to hold, to grab, to seize, to arrest; to catch, to seize; to slaughter, to butcher, to kill (an animal); to occupy, to take up, to seize, to take; to manage, to arrange, to reserve, to settle; to extinguish
Verb
자
ruler, rule, straightedge; ja or Korean foot, a traditional unit of length equivalent to about 30.3 cm.
Noun
부르다
to name, to call, to call out; to bid, to offer (a price); to cry, to yell, to shout; to sing, to chant
Verb
수도
capital (of a country); waterworks (municipal utility); tap water; a shipping channel, water route; inmate; asceticism, spiritual discipline; wet-field rice, rice planted underwater; city of water; tunnel
Noun
뒤
back, latter, rear; afterwards, future, next; aftermath, result, trail; (human) excrement, feces
Noun
시
hour (time); time; town, city; an administrative region, a division of a province having a population of over 150,000; poem, poetry
Noun
내다
to bring about, to pull forth; to put out, put forth, put forward, produce, yield, issue, pay, offer, present, submit, emit; to pay; to accomplish; to achieve; to manage (to do)
Verb
내리다
to come down; to disembark; to disembark from; to take down, to put down; to give to subordinates (of an order, a reward, a punishment, etc.); to take down; to delete a post; to brew (tea or coffee)
Verb
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
지다
to fall; to sink; to set; to go down; to wither and fall; to scatter; to be scattered; to come out (with a wash); to be removed; to be washed off; to die; to disappear; to form; to shape; to occur; to become, to get: turns adjectives into processive verbs; expresses change in state.; forms intransitive or passive verbs from processive verbs; see usage notes.; suffix which formed intransitive passive constructions; usually the constructions have deviated from the original modern meaning of the verbs.; to carry on one's back; to bear; to undertake; to be charged with (the duty of); to assume (the responsibility of); …
Verb
외다
to be placed in reverse and causing inconvenience to use; to be twisted, disturbed, warped (of mind)
Adjective
형
older brother of a male; somewhat older male; elder sister of a female; hyung (older male member of an idol group); punishment, penalty, (legal) sentence; type, model; form, shape; firefly
Noun
트다
to open, to clear (a way, path, etc.); to begin; to bud, to sprout, to shoot; to crack, to burst; to chap; to dawn, to break
Verb
다
everything, all (only before the copulas 이다 (ida, “to be”) and 아니다 (anida, “to not be”)); C (musical note); scorched rice tea, sungnyung
Noun
때우다
to fill, to patch up, to solder; to make do with; to do something by using alternative means; to satisfy one's hunger with a simple meal; to kill time
Verb
주
week (unit of time); main/principal part; political divisions of some countries, typically first-level, variously corresponding to canton, county, department, state, oblast, province, region, commonwealth, union, etc.; stock (in a company); annotation; explanatory notes; continent; sandbank; sandbar
Noun
어리다
to be young, to be little, to be a child; when used for people, usually younger than mid-teens unless used in a comparison; to be naïve; to be immature; to be ignorant; to be foolish
Adjective
터
place, room, space; lot, site; foundation, groundwork; plan, schedule; inference; intention, plan; situation, circumstance
Noun
양
quantity, amount; sheep; yang (the essential male principle in East Asian religion or philosophy); Miss (used after the names of young women, especially by older speakers); The fourth-highest score in the five-point grading system in South Korean schools, ultimately abolished in 2012; equivalent to D in the Roman alphabet grading scheme.
Noun
소식
news; help digestion; vegetarian food; coarse food; vegetarian foods; eating in small portions
Noun
딱
while colliding together; while stopping suddenly, decisively; widely; tightly; in a perfectly fitting manner; while being immobile; (figurative) resolutely, confidently; an intensifier
Noun
끔찍하다
to be terrible; to be awful; to be horrible; to be atrocious; to be great in degree; to be extreme in degree
Adjective