Most common Korean words 1001–2000

to make (horse, cattle) work; to manage; to drive; to make (person) work; to manage; to handle; to control; to work (a person); to control (machine); to handle; to summon (ghost, demon) and make it move as one desires; to manipulate; to make a show of; to play (tricks); to act; to perform; to do (something) intentionally and habitually; to keep doing (something); to do; to wield; to unload (goods); to discharge; to relax (bow)

Verb

천국

heaven, paradise; Dianthus chinensis, a species of flowering plant

Noun

치즈

cheese

Noun

강아지

puppy; dog, doggy; kid, child

Noun

테이블

table (furniture); table (grid of data)

Noun

폰

a phone, most commonly a cell phone; a pawn

Noun

마치다

to finish

Verb

쯔다

to cut, to fell

Verb

보안관

sheriff

Noun

과

academic department (in universities); family; synonym of 과거(科擧) (gwageo, “civil service examination”); action; enactment; lesson

Noun

공부하다

to study

Verb

겁쟁이

coward (someone easily scared)

Noun

그룹

group (number of things or persons being in some relation to each other); group (people who perform music together)

Noun

마녀

witch, sorceress

Noun

살해

murder

Noun

가격

monetary price

Noun

장담하다

to guarantee; to assure

Verb

정의

justice; Justice (Tarot card); definition

Noun

연습하다

to practice

Verb

시절

a period of time; a time of life; a season; fool, idiot

Noun

창고

warehouse, storehouse

Noun

이분

this gentleman, this lady, he, she, it

Noun

시기

opportunity; chance; a time, especially a time for doing something; period of time; season; envy; jealousy; starting period; effective date

Noun

기

energy, spirit (of a person); a certain feeling; a certain sensation; qi, the vital force engendering the cosmos; qi, life force; banner; flag; base; the sixth of the ten heavenly stems

Noun

덕

virtue

Noun

셈

counting; thinking, plan, intention; supposition, assumption, pretension; situation, circumstances; Hwanghae form of 힘 (him, “strength; power”)

Noun

사회

society; a class, a world of a certain group; social studies; moderation of a meeting or ceremony; moderator

Noun

술집

bar, pub (establishment serving alcohol)

Noun

장관

a minister, a member of Cabinet; magnificent spectacle; thrilling sight; grand view

Noun

암호

password, code

Noun

선배

a senior or elder in an organization; an upperclassman

Noun

얼다

to freeze, be frozen; to freeze up, tense up

Verb

부상

injury; wound; rising/surfacing to the surface; rise; emergence; extra prize; additional prize; synonym of 부친상(父親喪) (buchinsang, “death of one's father”); wealthy trader/merchant

Noun

약물

drug; miscellaneous symbols

Noun

해군

navy

Noun

외계인

alien; extraterrestrial

Noun

코치

coach (trainer)

Noun

긴장

tension, nervousness, strain

Noun

참여하다

to participate; to join a lawsuit

Verb

고려하다

to consider or reflect on something

Verb

근무

work, duty, service (at a company)

Noun

통화

telephone call; currency

Noun

입장

standpoint; perspective; entry, admittance

Noun

그이

that person; he

Noun

여지

room; margin; scope; leeway; lychee

Noun

닿다

to touch, to reach

Verb

디읃

the name of the second jamo, ㄷ (d) in hangul

Noun

자료

data; documentation; materials

Noun

허가

permission

Noun

대비하다

to prepare; to be contrasted, to be compared

Verb

사라

plate

Noun

나서다

to go forth; to present oneself

Verb

사냥

hunting

Noun

새벽

dawn; daybreak; cockcrow (also used to indicate time of the day, approximately from 1:00 a.m. to 3:00 a.m.)

Noun

통과하다

to pass, to go through

Verb

운동

exercise, physical activity; sport, sports; movement in general

Noun

별것

a rarity; a curiosity; an oddity; another/a different thing

Noun

삶다

to boil; to cook (in boiling water); to coax, to buy/win over (a person); to harrow (a field)

Verb

풀

herbaceous plants, particularly grass; glue; pool

Noun

무사하다

intact, unharmed

Adjective

뵙다

to see a very respected person (more humble than 뵈다 (boeda), itself a humble form of 보다 (boda))

Verb

지하

below ground; basement

Noun

당시

the time in question; Tang poetry

Noun

저의

ulterior motive

Noun

원숭이

monkey, ape

Noun

퍼지다

to spread outwards; to diffuse

Verb

리더

leader; reader

Noun

이론

theory

Noun

수준

a standard or criterion level

Noun

전문가

expert; specialist

Noun

면

cotton (both the fiber and the cloth); noodles; side; aspect; township

Noun

아이구

expression of surprise; oh, ouch

Interjection

신사

gentleman; Shinto shrine

Noun

흔들다

to cause to dangle, shake, wave, or undulate

Verb

치료제

medicine, medical drug, medical treatment

Noun

공주님

princess

Noun

갈래

division, separation, split, strand, thread, fork

Noun

질리다

to be sick (of); to be fed up (with); to be stunned; to be amazed; to dye unevenly; to cost; to be kicked; to be struck

Verb

탈출하다

to get away, to escape

Verb

양반

civil nobility and military nobility; yangban class in Korea; appellation to address a man; husband

Noun

조카

nephew, niece (child of a sibling)

Noun

때로

on occasion; occasionally

Adverb

저

chopstick(s); written by... (written after the author's name); synonym of 밑 (mit, “(mathematics) base of a logarithm”); transverse flute

Noun

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