Most common Korean words 1001–2000

1000 words, in teaching order

Words 201–300

to hinder or obstruct; to interfere with

Verb

synonym of 달팽이 (dalpaeng'i, “snail”); synonym of 달팽이관(管) (dalpaeng'igwan, “cochlea”); Pyongan form of 왜가리 (waegari, “grey heron”); wow (change in pitch in recording)

Noun

기윽

the name of the second jamo, ㄱ (g) in hangul

Noun

백

hundred

Numeric

무시하다

to ignore, to slight; to disdain

Verb

조용하다

to be silent, quiet, still, calm, empty, sedate

Adjective

쿠키

cookie (baked good); HTTP cookie

Noun

하

sound of a sigh

Interjection

방향

direction, orientation; banghyang, a metallophone of Chinese origin used in Dangak, a genre of traditional Korean court music of Tang origin.

Noun

바닥

floor; bottom; a flat and usually low surface of a space or object; rock bottom; area, region; the weave of fabric

Noun

뽑다

to extract, to pull out; to pick, to elect, to choose, to select

Verb

번호

number; roll call

Noun

직장

workplace, job; rectum

Noun

졸다

to doze off; to be sleepy; to be drowsy; to boil down, to boil away

Verb

대장

general; admiral; leader; commander; captain; large intestine; bowel; colon; register; ledger; account book

Noun

지르다

to stir, stick, thrust, insert; to stake, wager; to set fire; to yell, shout, scream, make a loud voice; to cross, take a short cut; to cut, to shear

Verb

아파트

apartment building, block of flats; an apartment, a flat

Noun

이동하다

to move; to shift; to transfer

Verb

손가락

finger

Noun

노력

striving, making an effort to accomplish something

Noun

파다

to dig, carve, excavate, burrow

Verb

개인적

personal, individual

Noun

화가

artist (painter)

Noun

제

contraction of 적에 (jeog-e): (literary, possibly dated) when

Adverb

여자친구

girlfriend

Noun

희생

sacrifice; life lost due to natural causes or accidents; victim (sacrificed animal)

Noun

식사

meal; speech (at a ceremony); oration

Noun

테

something that goes around the outside of something else: frame, brim, rim

Noun

저리

so, like that; to that place, in that direction, there (direction); away

Adverb

참다

to bear; to endure

Verb

때다

to make / light (a fire); to burn (firewood)

Verb

데이

day (in expressions taken from English)

Noun

남자친구

boyfriend

Noun

약하다

to be weak

Adjective

돼지

pig, swine; a fat person

Noun

제일

number one; the first or primary; a celebratory or memorial day; the last day of the lunar year; Lunar New Year's Eve

Noun

영광

honor; glory

Noun

출발하다

to depart

Verb

마법

magic, sorcery, black art

Noun

사과하다

to apologize

Verb

게이

gay man (male homosexual); effeminate man; user, forum user, social media user; often mistakenly understood as a shortening of 게시판 이용자 (gesipan iyongja, “forum user”).

Noun

몰다

to drive (an animal, a car, etc.)

Verb

꼴

the shape or appearance of a thing; the condition or state of someone or something; fodder, grass

Noun

치료하다

to treat; to cure

Verb

에다

to cut, to slice; (by extension) to greatly pain

Verb

함께하다

to be (with); to share (with); to have ... (with); to do together; to join

Verb

끝나다

to come to an end; to become finished

Verb

속도

speed

Noun

효과

result, effect; yuko

Noun

겨우

barely; with difficulty

Adverb

새다

to leak, to escape; to leak out, to slip out; to digress; to dawn, to break; to pass, to go by; to stay up

Verb

해치다

to hurt, to harm, to injure

Verb

따위

and the like

Noun

섹시하다

to be sexy

Adjective

유명하다

to be famous

Adjective

요청하다

to request, to claim

Verb

흔적

trace, evidence, vestige

Noun

단어

an individual word

Noun

동네

neighborhood

Noun

실제로

in fact, in practice

Adverb

권리

right; privilege

Noun

도로

road, thoroughfare

Noun

프로그램

program (performance of a show or other broadcast on radio or television); program (software application)

Noun

한잔

one drink (of liquor); one glass

Noun

다루다

to handle; to deal with; to operate (a machine or device)

Verb

꽃

flower; flowering plant; prime; central part; essence

Noun

의식

consciousness; awareness; consciousness in the philosophical sense; ritual; ceremony

Noun

유지하다

to maintain, to continue

Verb

어둡다

dark; gloomy

Adjective

줄이다

to reduce something

Verb

넘어가다

to collapse or tilt; to cross over; to shift or be transferred; to set; to fall for (a fraud)

Verb

돌

rock, stone; pebble; stone; slow or obtuse person; stone (in the body); baby's first birthday; dhole (Cuon alpinus)

Noun

짐

load, burden; package, parcel; cargo, freight

Noun

짐

I, me (similar to the royal we)

Pronoun

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

유령

apparition; ghost

Noun

좋아지다

to improve, to become better; to come to like, to grow fond of

Verb

섬

island, islet or insular; straw sack (used to hold grains or food); stone stairsteps (in traditional houses); synonym of 작살 (jaksal, “(fishing) harpoon”)

Noun

경험

experience

Noun

발

steps (with determiner numerals); Counter for shots or rounds fired by a gun or cannon: round

제시

presentation, showing

Noun

이따가

a little later; after a while; a short time later

Adverb

척

pretense; as if; 隻: (counter) boat; 尺: synonym of 자 (ja), the Korean foot of about 30.3 cm

Noun

최대한

to the maximum

Adverb

미

beauty; rice; third note of the major scale, mi

Noun

마일

mile

Noun

평화

peace; harmony

Noun

구역

area, zone, precinct; a ward; area; district; parish

Noun

좆나

as fuck, fucking (vulgar intensifying adverb)

Adverb

가까이

closely, close together; nearby

Adverb

노

string, cord (twisted hemp, paper, etc.); oar, paddle; furnace; north; purportedly used by sailors, in certain regions; synonym of 쇠뇌 (soenoe, “crossbow (weapon)”)

Noun

밝히다

to make bright, light up, brighten, illuminate; to make clear, reveal, disclose, uncover; to remain awake, sit up at night; to indulge in, give oneself up to

Verb

발견되다

to be discovered

Verb

인사

greeting; personnel matters, human resources; human affairs, ways of the world; public figure; personage

Noun

자격

qualifications

Noun

나아지다

to improve, to get better