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Most common Korean words 1–500

500 words, in teaching order

Words 301–400
여러분
ladies and gentlemen; everyone (present); you; everyone
Noun
이번
this time; this occasion
Noun
들리다
to be heard; to cause to hear; to be raised; to cause to raise; to suffer from; to fall sick of
Verb
내일
tomorrow
Noun
도움
help; assistance; favour, favor
Noun
물다
to bite; to hold between one's teeth, to hold in one's mouth; to pay (a fee, tax, fine, penalty, interest, etc.); to pay for, to compensate for (damage, etc.); to spoil from heat or humidity
Verb
넣다
to put in, to include, to insert
Verb
놓다
to lay, put, set, place; to let go
Verb
신
god, deity; God; spirit; departed soul; someone who serves a monarch: a retainer, subject; shoes; footgear; joy; delight; amusement; scene (in a show, movie, drama, play, etc.); trustworthiness; the eighth of the ten heavenly stems
Noun
지키다
to protect, to defend; to watch over; to keep to, to abide by
Verb
방
room; notice (written to the public); list of successful candidates; the right-hand component of a Chinese character; fishing using a dragnet
Noun
되다
(to be) hard, (to be) thick; severe
Adjective
이해하다
to understand or comprehend
Verb
속
the interior or inside, especially that which is underneath or within a covering; stomach; insides; a genus; “the secular”; that which is worldly, secular, or common; colloquialism
Noun
이리
to this place, hither, here; in this way, like that/this, so
Adverb
한
about, around
Determiner
곧
soon, at once, immediately, shortly, straightway; easily, readily; namely, that is, i.e., viz.
Adverb
명
Counter for people
아마
perhaps, maybe
Adverb
움직이다
to move
Verb
조금
a little; a bit
Adverb
먼저
first in time or sequence
Adverb
길
a road, a path, a street, a track; passage, thoroughfare; a way, (on) the way; a route/course (e.g. an airway or sea route); the road (to)..., the path (to)...; a way, a means, a method; training; domestication; breaking in; wear; familiarity; skill; a gil, a traditional Korean unit of measurement; the gil, a traditional Korean unit of length equal to 8 or 10 Korean foot (자 (ja)), equivalent to approximately 2.4 m and 3 m respectively; the gil, a traditional Korean unit of length equal to the height of a person; a fathom; …
Noun
꼭
absolutely; surely; regardless; unreservedly; grasping tightly, firmly; holding back resolutely (e.g., tears)
Adverb
빠지다
to fall out, to come off, to come out; to lose (weight, hair, etc.); to get off, to slip out; to skip (attendance), to drop out (of an appointment, meeting, etc.); to be lacking, to be missing, to be omitted; to fall into (especially of water), to sink; to get into (a situation); to lapse or sink into a state (e.g. love, drunkenness); to wallow in...; to indulge in (thinking); to be addicted to, to be hooked to/on; …
Verb
부인
(another person's) wife; Lady (honorary title bestowed on ladies of the high aristocracy in the Goryeo and Joseon dynasties); denial; disaffirmation
Noun
않다
auxiliary adjective used to negate the clause to which the main adjective belongs
Adjective
인간
human, human being; fellow, guy; human world, human society; family member
Noun
걔
that kid; he or she
Pronoun
얼굴
face; visage
Noun
왜냐하면
because; for the following reason.
Adverb
입다
to wear, to put on (clothes); to suffer, to sustain (harm, losses, etc.); to enjoy, to receive (a favour)
Verb
가능하다
to be possible; able
Adjective
정말
that which is true or genuine
Noun
사건
a noteworthy or remarkable incident
Noun
몸
body (of a human or animal)
Noun
느끼다
to feel (emotion, sensation, etc.); to be aroused; to orgasm; to sob, to weep
Verb
무엇
what - used in questions; something, anything
Pronoun
작다
to be small
Adjective
끝
end, final
Noun
바꾸다
to change [something]; to replace [something] with something else; to exchange [something]; to give [something] and receive something else in return; to change; to make changes; to modify; to put (somebody) on (on the phone); to exchange words or greetings with each other
Verb
방금
just a moment ago; just now
Adverb
계획
a plan
Noun
뜻
meaning, sense, significance; mind; aim, goal
Noun
지내다
to spend (one's time); to live, to get along; to associate (with people), to keep company (with); to serve as ..., to hold (post); to hold (a service), to perform (rites)
Verb
지다
to fall; to sink; to set; to go down; to wither and fall; to scatter; to be scattered; to come out (with a wash); to be removed; to be washed off; to die; to disappear; to form; to shape; to occur; to become, to get: turns adjectives into processive verbs; expresses change in state.; forms intransitive or passive verbs from processive verbs; see usage notes.; suffix which formed intransitive passive constructions; usually the constructions have deviated from the original modern meaning of the verbs.; to carry on one's back; to bear; to undertake; to be charged with (the duty of); to assume (the responsibility of); …
Verb
오
wow, whoa; used for a pleasant surprise, especially regarding something the listener has done or said.
Interjection
병원
hospital; any facility for healing or treatment of people, animals, or things; a medical facility capable of handling 30 or more patients at a time
Noun
꿈
dream
Noun
외다
to be placed in reverse and causing inconvenience to use; to be twisted, disturbed, warped (of mind)
Adjective
그만하다
to stop; to quit
Verb
열다
to open; to hold (an event, meeting, etc.); to ripen
Verb
아내
wife, especially one's own
Noun
음
yin, the essential female principle in eastern religion or philosophy; sound (in general); sound, tune; reading of a character
Noun
남편
husband
Noun
늦다
to be late
Adjective
이렇다
like this; (to be) in this way
Adjective
어머니
mother
Noun
가져오다
to bring something; to incur; to entail
Verb
걱정
anxiety; worry
Noun
어쩌다
as it happens; by chance; somehow
Adverb
물
water; influence; taint (with verbs 들다 (deulda) or 먹다 (meokda))
Noun
잘못
mistake; wrong
Noun
확인하다
to confirm, to verify or check; to see; to ascertain; to affirm
Verb
인생
one's life; human life generally
Noun
절
a verse, passage, paragraph; clause; bow; greeting; Buddhist monastery / temple; chopsticks
Noun
기회
opportunity
Noun
예쁘다
to be pretty, lovely, beautiful, comely; to be adorable; to be nice, good
Adjective
무섭다
to be worried, scared or afraid of something; to be worrisome or fearsome, frightening, scary
Adjective
볼
cheek; the width of feet; patch; ball (sphere); ball (pitch that falls outside the strike zone)
Noun
데
place; situation, case; thing; what; used generically to substantialize clauses.
Noun
기억하다
to remember
Verb
대체
almost
Adverb
번째
a dependent noun used to express the order or relative position of an object; a construction equivalent to ordinal numbers.
Noun
건
past determinative of 걸다 (geolda, “to speak or suspend”): having been suspended, spoken; of a telephone call, having been made
Verb
전화하다
to call by telephone
Verb
가지
kind, sort; variety; twig or branch; synonym of 접사(接辭) (jeopsa, “(linguistics) affix”); eggplant/aubergine; being able to know
Noun
없이
without, lacking
Adverb
얻다
to obtain (to get hold of; to gain possession of, to procure; to acquire, in any way); to borrow; to win (someone's heart), to receive (criticism, praise, reputation); to get sick; to rent; to obtain the right or property; to hire a worker; to take a son-in-law or daughter-in-law, to win possession of a mate, to have a baby
Verb
읽다
to read
Verb
완전
absolutely, completely, totally
Adverb
잊다
to forget; to leave behind
Verb
형
older brother of a male; somewhat older male; elder sister of a female; hyung (older male member of an idol group); punishment, penalty, (legal) sentence; type, model; form, shape; firefly
Noun
알
egg, roe (of fish); grain (of cereals); ball (small round object)
Noun
조심하다
to be careful, beware, watch
Verb
녀석
dude, fellow; endearing term for usually young boys, similar to squirt or scamp
Noun
쉽다
to be easy; to be likely
Adjective
박사
doctorate, Ph.D. (Doctor of Philosophy); doctor (recipient of a doctorate); expert
Noun
순
pure
Determiner
예
example; decorum, ceremonial (code of decorous behavior that all people ought to follow); ancient times, antiquity, old times
Noun
저것
that (far away from the speaker and the listener)
Pronoun
마다
to smash
Verb
힘
strength; power; force; Strength (Tarot card)
Noun
사라지다
to vanish; to disappear
Verb
기억
recall; the faculty of memory
Noun
짓
a physical act or movement
Noun
쉬다
to rest, to break, to relax, to take a rest; (of an establishment) to be closed, to not work (e.g. for a holiday); (of a person) to take a break, to take time out (e.g. from working); to stay to rest (at a place), to lodge; to sleep; (of one's body) to rest, to put to rest; to rest from..., to be away from..., to take a break from..., to take time/a day off from...; to breathe; to sigh; to spoil, to go bad, to turn sour; to become hoarse; …
Verb
하루
a day, 24 hours; daytime
Noun
옷
clothing; clothes
Noun
트다
to open, to clear (a way, path, etc.); to begin; to bud, to sprout, to shoot; to crack, to burst; to chap; to dawn, to break
Verb