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Most common Korean words 1001–2000

1000 words, in teaching order

Words 601–700

honest, frank, direct

Adjective

to occur, to happen

Verb

Mr, mister (title)

Noun

to allow, to permit

Verb

wolf, wolves

Noun

at least

Adverb

to shake off, to brush off (as dust, etc.); to empty; to rob, to steal

Verb

actually, in fact

Adverb

the thing itself

Noun

fan; pan

Noun

to destroy or demolish

Verb

to employ; to hire

Verb

to be inconvenient, to be uncomfortable

Adjective

contraction of 무슨 (museun, “what, what kind of”)

Determiner

to wake someone

Verb

spring onion

Noun

stairs, staircase, stairway; ladder

Noun

To be untied.; To be solved.

Verb

to stop, to keep; to dry; to be rolled up; to be curled up

Verb

to step back, to move back, to back off; to resign, to retire

Verb

to be flawless, faultless; to be unhurt, uninjured; to be sane, sober; to be impudent, shameless, cheeky

Adjective

quietly; without moving or speaking; without change; just as it is

Adverb

short

Adjective

train

Noun

to be connected, to be joined, to be linked

Verb

to stand face to face with, to face each other; to stand against, to oppose, to defy

Verb

to deceive, to trick, to cheat, to fool

Verb

pie; pi

Noun

to hug, to embrace; to take on (a debt, responsibility, etc.)

Verb

to wash clean

Verb

to collapse; to crumble, to decay (of a physical or social structure)

Verb

cake

Noun

to have a connection; to be connected; to be related

Verb

to work hard, to take trouble

Verb

warning

Noun

the time before now; heretofore

Noun

black person (dark-skinned person of African or Australian Aboriginal descent)

Noun

medicine (the academic discipline)

Noun

gratitude; thanks; audit; inspection

Noun

storm; blast from an explosion

Noun

to close one's eyes; to wash hair; to wind around, to coil

Verb

to excel; to be outstanding

Adjective

the English language; the Latin alphabet; prison

Noun

finger ring, ring

Noun

wonderful, nice, cool; good-looking, handsome, attractive; stylish; chic; fashionable

Adjective

to be/get angry/mad, to lose one's temper

Verb

equator (circle around the earth)

Noun

beforehand, in advance

Adverb

Gyeongsang, Gangwon, and Chungcheong form of 많이 (mani, “many, a lot”)

Adverb

chair, sofa

Noun

in any case, anyway, anyhow, at any rate

Adverb

injury; foreign minister; foreign merchant, foreign businessperson

Noun

fear, terror, dread, fright, horror, panic; public announcement

Noun

to peel; to hatch (eggs); to speak ill of somebody or something

Verb

to be called; to make full; to fatten, enrich; to cause to swell up; to soak, macerate; to increase, expand

Verb

responsibility, charge

Noun

negotiation

Noun

band (strip of material wrapped around things to hold them together); band (group of musicians)

Noun

some, a few

Determiner

finally; in the end.

Adverb

to sip, to suck; to fellate; to wash (clothes), to launder

Verb

to keep watch on; to watch; to conduct surveillance of

Verb

to doubt

Verb

passive of 먹다 (meokda); to be eaten; to be required

Verb

stress (psychological)

Noun

differently; separately

Adverb

while blinking one's eyes (especially in shock); with surprise, with a shock (often in a positive way)

Noun

The exact location.; emblem of a political party; The male servant in Seowon.; The funeral ceremony held by a political party.

Noun

oppositeness; opposing, opposition

Noun

a rich person; father and son

Noun

illegality; the illegal

Noun

soldier

Noun

to be simple

Adjective

bone; frame (of a building, etc.); synopsis

Noun

a household

Noun

attention; caution; ideology; -ism

Noun

idea

Noun

rat, mouse, (in general) rodent; cramp

Noun

expensive

Adjective

deep red

Adjective

what

Pronoun

a glass of a beverage (beer, soju, water, etc.)

to toy with; to tease, to make fun of

Verb

to go on past something; to pass

Verb

camp

Noun

bread

Noun

blood pressure

Noun

process, a course of events; course; curriculum

Noun

to be cold to the touch

Adjective

to converse; to make conversation

Verb

mirror (a reflecting surface); model for others

Noun

oxygen; grave, tomb

Noun

a household, a family; a supposition or presupposition; a hypothesis

Noun

To be used.; To be written.

Verb

bar (pressure unit)

newspaper

Noun

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

that guy; that bastard; that thing

Noun

train

Noun

In the Joseon Dynasty (14th-19th centuries), the term used by the king to refer to any official above the second rank.

Pronoun