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
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
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
좋다
to be good; great; excellent (excellent and satisfactory in features and content); to be good; nice (well-rounded and kind in personality); to be good; kind (kind and gentle in speech and act); to be good (above average in physical condition or health); to have a lot of nerve (not caring about saving face or being shameless); to be nice (sunny and clear); to be enough; sufficient; to be good (having a lot of hair in good condition); to be good; right (for a day or opportunity to be appropriate); to be fond of; in love with (happy about and satisfied with a thing or object); …
Adjective
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
저
that, that thing; I, me; first-person singular polite pronoun; oneself; third-person plain reflexive pronoun
Pronoun
모르다
to not know, to be ignorant of; to be possibly so; Used with 얼마나, 어찌, etc., for emphasis.; to not care
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
죽다
to die (to stop living); to die away, to fade; to die, to stop working; to fade away, to disappear; to be unbearable, to be irresistible
Verb
아이
child, kid; Used to refer to objects, typically in casual but polite settings such as when persuading a customer to buy a product.; less colloquial form of 애 (ae, “guy; person”)
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
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
위하다
to help, to serve, to benefit; to honour, to esteem; to do for the sake of / for the purpose of; to say; to call
Verb
대하다
to pertain or relate to a topic; to greet or respond to; to face, to stand across from; to treat
Verb
들다
to come in, go in, get in, enter; to enter, penetrate; to enter a road or path; to cost; to permeate in, to saturate; to be included in; to occur; to join an organization, to enter into a contract; to side with; to insist on doing, to strive; …
Verb
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
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
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
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
중
average; intermediate (grade or class); medium; middle; the second volume of a three-volume set; in the course of; during; amongst; a Buddhist monk
Noun
씨
seed, kernel; sperm; woof, weft; part of speech; prime; sir or madam; Mr. or Ms.; lineage; surname; synonym of 시 (si, “cee”)
Noun
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
타다
to burn; to tan; to ride, to take; to ride (horse, bicycle, etc.), to get on (bus, car, etc.); to take a route; to mount or climb (tree, cliff, mountain, etc.); to get on a person; to take advantage of (a opportunity, chance); to flow, be carried away on something, to ride (wind, stream, current, etc.); to ski, skate; …
Verb
적
enemy; opponent; adversary; time, occurrence, experience (must be preceded by the adnominal suffix -은 (-eun) or -을 (-eul)); object, target; synonym of 호적(戶籍) (hojeok, “family register”); membership, enrollment (in a group such as an army, school, political party, etc.); jeok (a Korean meat dish served with skewers); product; synonym of 횡적(橫笛) (hoengjeok); synonym of 적색(赤色) (jeoksaek, “red (colour)”)
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
구하다
to look for, to seek; to acquire something needed; to save, to rescue; to help, to relieve someone from a difficult situation
Verb
두다
to put; to leave (behind), let there be; to keep (from), preserve; to have (in mind); to set up
Verb
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
이상
an amount more than; an amount greater than or equal to; the aforementioned; abnormality, disorder, unusualness, strangeness; ideal
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
들리다
to be heard; to cause to hear; to be raised; to cause to raise; to suffer from; to fall sick of
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
속
the interior or inside, especially that which is underneath or within a covering; stomach; insides; a genus; “the secular”; that which is worldly, secular, or common; colloquialism
Noun