Basic Korean words for beginners
– Essential words to know –
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Learn the essentials of Korean easily with this vocabulary list that contains all the most basic words used in Korean, with their english translations. If you’re a beginner, it will come in handy to review or learn Korean by yourself before traveling, or if you want to enrich and improve your Korean vocabulary to better express yourself in writing and speaking!
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| ENGLISH | KOREAN | PRONUNCIATION |
| Please | ๋ถํํด์ | butakhaeyo |
| Thank you! | ๊ฐ์ฌํฉ๋๋ค! | gamsahapnida! |
| Sorry!ย | ๋ฏธ์ํด์!ย | mianhaeyo!ย |
| What? | ๋ฌด์? | mueot? |
| Who? | ๋๊ตฌ? | nugu? |
| When? | ์ธ์ ? | eonje? |
| Why? | ์? | wae? |
| Which? | ์ด๋? | eoneu? |
| How? | ์ด๋ป๊ฒ? | eotteohge? |
| Whereย ? | ์ด๋? | ady? |
| How muchย ? | ์ผ๋งํผ์? | eolmankeumyo? |
| Yes | ์ | yeah |
| Noย | ์๋์ย | anniyoย |
| Maybe | ์๋ง | ama |
| Of course | ๋ฌผ๋ก | mullon |
| something | ๋ฌด์ธ๊ฐ | mueonga |
| nothing | ๋ฌด | mu |
| somebody | ๋๊ตฐ๊ฐ | nugunga |
| nobody | ์๋ฌด๋ | amudo |
| before | ์ ์ | jeone |
| after | ํ | hu |
| far | ๋ฉ๋ฆฌ | meolli |
| near | ๊ฐ๊น๋ค | gakkapda |
| here | ์ฌ๊ธฐ | yeogi |
| there | ๊ฑฐ๊ธฐ | geogi |
| today | ์ค๋ | oneul |
| tomoorow | ํ ๋ฌด๋ก์ฐ | tomurou |
| now | ์ง๊ธ | jigeum |
| man | ๋จ์ | nanza |
| woman | ์ฌ์ | yeoja |
| friend | ์น๊ตฌ | chingu |
| more | ๋ | de |
| less | ๋ | deol |
| always | ๋ | neul |
| later | ๋์ค์ | najunge |
| never | ๊ฒฐ์ฝ | gyeolko |
| same | ๊ฐ์ | gateun |
| different | ๋ค๋ฅธ | dareun |
| small | ์๋ค | jakda |
| large | ํฐ | keun |
| difficult | ์ด๋ ต๋ค | eoryeopda |
| easy | ์ฌ์ด | swiun |
| hot | ๋ฅ๋ค | deopda |
| cold | ๊ฐ๊ธฐ | gamgi |
| yesterday | ์ด์ | eoje |
| after | ํ | hu |
| beautiful | ์๋ฆ๋ต๋ค | areumdapda |
| broken | ๊นจ์ง | kkaejin |
| free | ๋ฌด๋ฃ | muryo |
| a pharmacy | ์ฝ๊ตญ | yakguk |
| money | ๋ | don |
| a bag | ๊ฐ๋ฐฉ | gabang |
| a lighter | ๋ผ์ดํฐ | right |
| aย cigarette | ๋ด๋ฐฐ | dambae |
| a bottle | ๋ณ | byeong |
| soap | ๋น๋ | binu |
| clean | ๊นจ๋์ด | kkaekkeusi |
| dirty | ๋๋ฝ๋ค | deoreopda |
| a trash can | ์ฐ๋ ๊ธฐํต | ssregiton |
| a trash bag | ์ฐ๋ ๊ธฐ๋ดํฌ | sregibong |
| the silence | ์นจ๋ฌต | chimmuk |
| a tool | ๋๊ตฌ | togu |
| pregnant | ์์ ํ | imsinhan |
| sick | ์ํ | apeun |
| a baby | ์๊ธฐ | agi |
| a little bit | ์กฐ๊ธ | jogeum |
| a doctor | ์์ฌ | uisa |
| a dentist | ์น๊ณผ ์์ฌ | chigua uisa |
| a medicine | ์ฝ | yak |
| a book | ์ฑ | chack |
| a story | ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ | iyagi |
| a phone | ์ ํ | jeonhwa |
| a computer | ์ปดํจํฐ | computer |
| a car | ์๋์ฐจ | jadongcha |
| a plane | ๋นํ๊ธฐ | bihaenggi |
| the name | ์ด๋ฆ | ireum |
| the adress | ์ฃผ์ | juso |
| the age | ๋์ด | nighy |
| the nationality | ๊ตญ์ | gukjeok |
| a choice | ์ ํ | seontaek |
| an answer | ๋ต๋ณ | dapbyeon |
| the key | ์ด์ | yeolsoe |
| the light | ๋น | bicc |
| the television | ํ ๋ ๋น์ | telfevision |
| the bed | ์นจ๋ | chimdae |
| the house | ๋ ํ์ฐ์ค | de hauseu |
| the shower | ์ค์ | xiawo |
| the window | ์ฐฝ | chang |
| the door | ๋ฌธ | mun |
| the table | ํ ์ด๋ธ | table |
| tired | ํผ๊ณคํ | pigonhan |
| water | ๋ฌผ | mul |
| open | ์ด๋ค | yeolda |
| closed | ๋ซ์ | dadeun |
| clothes | ์ท | ot |
| coffee | ์ปคํผ | keopi |
| tea | ์ฐจ | cha |
| lunch | ์ ์ฌ | jeomsim |
| dinner | ์ ๋ ์์ฌ | jeonyeok sixa |
| a fruit | ๊ณผ์ผ | guile |
| a vegetable | ์ผ์ฑ | yachae |
| a beverage | ์๋ฃ | eumryo |
| a child | ์์ด | ai |
| rain | ๋น | bi |
| the entrance | ์ ๊ตฌ | ipgu |
| the exit | ์ถ๊ตฌ | chulgu |
| music | ์์ | eumak |
| a smile | ๋ฏธ์ | miso |
| the world | ์ธ๊ณ | sekai |
| the sky | ํ๋ | haneul |
| a river | ๊ฐ | gang |
| the sea | ๋ฐ๋ค | bada |
| the mountain | ์ฐ | san |
| the lake | ํธ์ | hosszรบ |
| the island | ์ฌ | sum |
| the beach | ํด๋ณ | haebyeon |
โก๏ธ More Korean vocabulary lists:
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- 100 most common Korean verbs
- Useful adverbs
- Useful adjectives
- Family and friends
- The city and public places
- The human body, head and face
- Contrary words
- Travel and tourism
- The calendar (days, months, seasons)
- Colors and shapes
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