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Most common Korean words 1–500

500 words, in teaching order

Words 201–300
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
준비
readiness, preparation
Noun
너희
you; you guys; you all
Pronoun
생기다
to emerge; for something to appear where it had been absent; to appear/to look a certain way
Verb
아들
son
Noun
안녕하다
well, healthy; peaceful, tranquil
Adjective
죄송하다
to be sorry, to feel apologetic
Adjective
밤
night; chestnut
Noun
손
hand (organ of humans and humanoid animals); free hand; visitor, guest; customer, patron; damage, loss (usually financial)
Noun
필요
need; necessity
Noun
네
four (of something)
Determiner
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
항상
always
Adverb
아무
any
Determiner
아무
anyone
Pronoun
남다
to remain, to be left over; to profit
Verb
개
dog; someone who behaves badly; someone who does the bidding of another; inlet; estuary; 2 points in yunnori
Noun
저희
the first person plural polite pronoun; we
Pronoun
사실
fact, reality, truth
Noun
방법
way; means; manner; method
Noun
일하다
to work, to do one's job; to labor; to serve, to work
Verb
밖
outside
Noun
전부
everything, all
Noun
감사하다
to give thanks; to thank; to audit; to inspect
Verb
중요하다
to be important
Adjective
구하다
to look for, to seek; to acquire something needed; to save, to rescue; to help, to relieve someone from a difficult situation
Verb
이야기
talk; story; anecdote
Noun
마음
mind, heart (i.e. one's emotions); intention, will
Noun
미치다
to go crazy, to become insane; to be crazy (positively or negatively); to extend, to reach
Verb
잘하다
to do something well, to be good at; to be kind, to treat well
Verb
앉다
to sit, to squat; to be located somewhere
Verb
들어오다
to enter, to come in
Verb
두다
to put; to leave (behind), let there be; to keep (from), preserve; to have (in mind); to set up
Verb
마시다
to drink; to breathe in, to inhale
Verb
그만
this much only; no more. often used in imperatives.
Adverb
물론
of course, certainly, naturally
Adverb
젠장
damn it!
Interjection
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
전하다
to pass along; to convey
Verb
앞
fore, front; the future; future events (especially with expressions denoting perception); earlier time (especially with expressions denoting movement); the south
Noun
아무것
anything; something
Noun
이유
reason; cause; weaning
Noun
멋지다
to be cool, splendid
Adjective
그러니까
therefore, accordingly
Adverb
계시다
honorific of 있다 (itda); to stay
Verb
처음
the first time; the beginning
Noun
저
that (distal determiner)
Determiner
나쁘다
to be bad (various meanings); to be bad; to be unpleasant; to be disagreeable; to be of inferior quality; to be bad; to be evil; to be ill-natured; to be bad, to be immoral; to be in the wrong; to be (morally) blamable; to be bad, to be harmful; to be bad; to be frail; to be weak; to be insufficient; to be inadequate
Adjective
혼자
solitude; alone, (all) by oneself, (all) on one's own
Noun
후
after
Noun
뒤
back, latter, rear; afterwards, future, next; aftermath, result, trail; (human) excrement, feces
Noun
버리다
to throw away (a thing), to abandon (a person); marks completion of the main verb, often with the implication that the result is negative
Verb
경찰
police; policing; a police officer
Noun
그런데
but, however, on the other hand
Adverb
가장
most, -est
Adverb
네
yes
Interjection
시
hour (time); time; town, city; an administrative region, a division of a province having a population of over 150,000; poem, poetry
Noun
못
nail, peg, spike; callosity, callus, blister; pond
Noun
내
through, throughout, all the time
Adverb
걸리다
to hang; to be hung; to catch; to be caught; to become involved in something; to take (time)
Verb
이미
already
Adverb
서다
to stand; to stop, to halt
Verb
이봐요
hi, hey, hello
Interjection
얘
this kid; he, she, it, you, this one (who is near the speaker)
Pronoun
바라다
to wish, to want, to desire, to hope for, to long for; to look toward something
Verb
아침
morning; breakfast
Noun
야
hey; whoa; used to convey excitement.
Interjection
살
years of age (of a person) (takes native numerals)
싸우다
to fight or struggle
Verb
이상
an amount more than; an amount greater than or equal to; the aforementioned; abnormality, disorder, unusualness, strangeness; ideal
Noun
힘들다
difficult; tired
Adjective
전화
telephone, phone; transformation, conversion, change; war, the conflagration of battle; war calamity or catastrophe; electrification
Noun
언제
when
Pronoun
절대
absolutely, totally, never
Adverb
정도
degree, extent; an approximate amount; right way; correct path
Noun
사랑
love; affection (emotion); love; beloved (object of one's love); salon, hall (in a traditional Korean house)
Noun
따르다
to follow; to pour
Verb
멈추다
to stop; to halt.
Verb
의사
doctor; intent; a righteous patriot
Noun
문
door; phylum; mun; the former currency of Korea; ask, question
Noun
어쩌다
to be inevitable; to be in a certain way
Verb
총
gun; rifle; machine gun
Noun
떨어지다
to fall; tumble; drop; to fall; drop; decline; decrease
Verb
기분
feeling, mood
Noun
딸
daughter (female child)
Noun
아니
no; oh; why; my
Interjection
상황
conditions, the situation
Noun
데리다
to bring or take along (an animal or lower/equal-status person)
Verb
당장
At once; immediately thereafter; right now
Adverb
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
마지막
the end; the last thing
Noun
이러다
to do this; to act in this way; to say this
Verb
동안
interval, period of time
Noun
아기
unweaned baby, child; animal baby; one's young daughter or daughter-in-law
Noun
아프다
to be painful, to hurt
Adjective
알리다
to inform, to announce, to make known
Verb
지나다
to pass (by, beyond, through; also of time)
Verb
잃다
to lose
Verb