‹ Korean decksMost common Korean words 2001–4000
2000 words, in teaching order
전문expertise; speciality; one's field of specialization; full text; entire text; preamble; front door; front gate; hearsay; telegram (message)
Noun
묻히다to be buried; to be surrounded by; to be buried, to be covered; to make something stained with; to coat with
Verb
어린애contraction of 어린아이 (eorinai, “child”)
Noun
어리다to appear faintly; to appear faintly; to be tinged with; to come to the eyes; to fog; to congeal, making things faint to see
Verb
권한authority, jurisdiction
Noun
따님honorific of 딸 (ttal, “daughter”)
Noun
바래다to fade, discolor, shade off, get washed out; to weather, expose to weather, age, season, bleach; to escort, see (somebody) off
Verb
진jeans, or jean fabric; gin
Noun
관pipe; tube; duct; government; official; public servant; coffin
Noun
제작production, manufacture
Noun
아예Altogether; entirely.; From the beginning; throughout.
Adverb
글다contraction of 그을다 (geueulda)
Verb
가볍다light (not heavy)
Adjective
남쪽The South.; South Korea in relation to North Korea.
Noun
체크check; an inspection; a check mark; a checkered pattern
Noun
기관engine; machine; agency; trachea; windpipe; organ of the body
Noun
적절하다to be suited, to be appropriate
Adjective
만세hurrah, hooray; long live
Interjection
용서forgiveness, mercy; commission, hired scribe
Noun
로비lobby (entryway or waiting area; vestibule); lobby (group of people who try to lobby)
Noun
미사일missile (military rocket)
Noun
물질a substance; a material; wealth; property; material; matter; haenyeos (female divers) going into the sea to collect seafood
Noun
드라마drama; specifically, a television drama or soap opera
Noun
날아가다to fly (away, off), to be blown away; to be gone, to be lost
Verb
엘리베이터an elevator (permanent construction)
Noun
설치하다to install, to set up
Verb
날개wing (of a bird, insect, etc.); wing (of an aeroplane); airfoil; blade (of a fan)
Noun
성인adult; grown-up; saint; sage, holy man
Noun
달아나다to escape, to flee
Verb
올해the current year, this year
Noun
탄a bird net used to catch birds; coal; charcoal; ordnance
Noun
테이프adhesive tape; tape (storage medium)
Noun
살짝subtly, slightly; discreetly, secretly
Adverb
너무나far too much; excessively
Adverb
사자a lion (big cat Panthera leo); a messenger; an envoy; an emissary; dead person
Noun
중심center, core; centre (place where some function or activity occurs); centroid
Noun
떨어뜨리다to drop; to drop, to lose; to lower, to drop
Verb
연대solidarity; time period
Noun
병력troops; military power, military strength; clinical history, medical history
Noun
박다to drive; to ram; to hammer; to hit; to bump; to crash; to attach or insert; to put into or in the middle; to put a filling in food; to press into a frame or plate; to keep one's person in secret; (often used in conjunction with eyes) to stare into a place; to bend down or press down on one's head or face; to bump one's head against a person; …
Verb
벗기다to take off, to undress; to peel, to skin
Verb
중독poisoning; addiction
Noun
합의agreement; consensus; consultation
Noun
광고advertisement, advertising in general
Noun
루rampart, military wall; base
Noun
우주선spacecraft, spaceship; cosmic ray, cosmic radiation
Noun
결과result; outcome; bearing fruit
Noun
채a whip, a scourge; a cane (used for beating); a club; a cue; a racket; thin strips (of vegetable or fruit); a continuing state
Noun
실패failure; spool, reel, bobbin
Noun
지붕roof (top of a building or other object one can enter)
Noun
자살하다to commit suicide
Verb
긴장하다to be/become nervous, tense, strained
Verb
차갑다to be cold (to the touch), icy, cold-hearted
Adjective
농장farm (a place where agricultural activities take place); wardrobe
Noun
지원하다to support, to aid; to apply
Verb
실망하다to be disappointed
Verb
소령a major; a lieutenant commander
Noun
현상the evident condition or state; phenomenon
Noun
짐승beast, animal; brute, barbarian
Noun
현금cash; synonym of 거문고 (geomun'go, “geomungo”)
Noun
기꺼이readily; gladly; willingly
Adverb
죄책감feeling of culpability; guilty conscience
Noun