Learn Korean Vocabulary: Contrary words
– Useful words you should know –
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Want to learn the Korean language? Hereโs a complete list of the most basic, common and useful words in Korean with their translation in English, on the topic of contrary words. Ideal to help you boost your Korean vocabulary!
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ENGLISH | KOREAN | PRONUNCIATION |
young | ์ด๋ฆฐ | eolin |
old | ๋ก์ | nalg-eun |
empty | ๋น์ด ์๋ | bieo issneun |
full | ๊ฐ๋ํ | gadeughan |
vertical | ์ธ๋ก | selo |
horizontal | ์ํ์ | supyeong-ui |
useful | ์ ์ฉํ | yuyonghan |
useless | ์ธ๋ชจ์๋ | sseulmo-eobsneun |
a city | ๋์ | dosi |
a village | ๋ง์ | ma-eul |
a question | ์ง๋ฌธ | jilmun |
an answer | ๋ต๋ณ | dabbyeon |
sad | ์ฌํผ | seulpeo |
happy | ํ๋ณตํ๋ค | haengboghada |
all | ๋ชจ๋ | modu |
nothing | ์๋ฌด๊ฒ๋ ์๋ | amugeosdo anim |
a teacher | ๊ต์ฌ | gyosa |
a student | ํ์ | hagsaeng |
early | ์ผ์ฐ | iljjig |
late | ๋ฆ์ | neuj-eun |
open | ์ด๋ ค ์๋ | yeollyeo issneun |
closed | ๋ซ์ | dad-eun |
first | ์ฒซ ๋ฒ์งธ | cheos beonjjae |
last | ๋ง์ง๋ง | majimag |
secure | ์์ ํ | anjeonhan |
dangerous | ์ํํ | wiheomhan |
near | ๊ฐ๊น์ด | gakkaun |
far | ๋ฉ๋ฆฌ | meolli |
sugar | ์คํ | seoltang |
salt | ์๊ธ | sogeum |
dry | ๋ง๋ฅธ | maleun |
wet | ์ ์ | jeoj-eun |
often | ์์ฃผ | jaju |
rarely | ๋๋ฌผ๊ฒ | deumulge |
always | ์ธ์ ๋ | eonjena |
never | ์ ๋ | jeoldae |
same | ๊ฐ์ | gat-eun |
different | ๋ค๋ฅธ | daleun |
dirty | ๋๋ฌ์ด | deoleoun |
clean | ๊นจ๋ํ | kkaekkeushan |
the evening | ์ ๋ | jeonyeog |
the morning | ์์นจ | achim |
small | ์์ | jag-eun |
large | ํฌ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ํฐ | keugiga keun |
rich | ๋ถ์ | buja |
poor | ๊ฐ๋ํ | gananhan |
the ceiling | ์ฒ์ฅ | cheonjang |
the floor | ๋ฐ๋ฅ | badag |
animal | ๋๋ฌผ | dongmul |
human | ์ธ๊ฐ | ingan |
guilty | ์ฃ์ฑ ๊ฐ์ด ๋๋ | joechaeggam-i deuneun |
innocent | ์๊ฒฐํ | sungyeolhan |
here | ์ฌ๊ธฐ | yeogi |
there | ๊ฑฐ๊ธฐ | geogi |
hunger | ๊ตถ์ฃผ๋ฆผ | gulmjulim |
the thirst | ๋ชฉ๋ง๋ฆ | mogmaleum |
the sun | ํ์ | taeyang |
the moon | ๋ฌ | dal |
the sister | ์๋งค | jamae |
the brother | ๋จ์ ํ์ | namja hyeongje |
slow | ๋๋ฆฐ | neulin |
fast | ๋น ๋ฅธ | ppaleun |
before | ~ ์ ์ | ~ jeon-e |
after | ~ ํ์ | ~ hue |
heavy | ๋ฌด๊ฑฐ์ด | mugeoun |
light | ๋น | bich |
old | ๋ก์ | nalg-eun |
new | ์๋ก์ด | saeloun |
easy | ์ฌ์ด | swiun |
difficult | ์ด๋ ค์ด | eolyeoun |
start | ์์ | sijag |
finish | ๋ง์น๋ค | machida |
friend | ์น๊ตฌ | chingu |
enemy | ์ | jeog |
yesterday | ์ด์ | eoje |
tomorrow | ๋ด์ผ | naeil |
cold | ์ถ์ด | chuun |
hot | ๋์ด | deoun |
right | ์ค๋ฅธ์ชฝ | oleunjjog |
left | ์ผ์ชฝ | oenjjog |
a woman | ์ฌ์ | yeoja |
a man | ํ ๋จ์ | han namja |
inside | ๋ด๋ถ์ | naebue |
outside | ๋ฐ์ | bakk-ui |
strong | ๊ฐํ | ganghan |
weak | ์ฝํ | yaghan |
soft | ๋ถ๋๋ฌ์ด | budeuleoun |
hard | ๋ฑ๋ฑํ | ttagttaghan |
a lot | ๋ง์ด | manh-i |
a little | ์กฐ๊ธ | jogeum |
up | ์๋ก | wilo |
down | ์๋์ | alaee |
exactly | ๋ฐ๋ก ๊ทธ๊ฑฐ์ฃ | balo geugeojyo |
probably | ์๋ง | ama |
married | ๊ธฐํผ | gihon |
single | ํ๋์ | hanaui |
noisy | ์๋๋ฌ์ด | sikkeuleoun |
quiet | ์กฐ์ฉํ | joyonghan |
complicated | ๋ณต์กํ | bogjabhan |
simple | ๋จ์ํ | dansunhan |
now | ์ง๊ธ | jigeum |
later | ๋์ค์ | najung-e |
long | ๊ธด | gin |
short | ์งง์ | jjalb-eun |
interesting | ํฅ๋ฏธ๋ก์ด | heungmiloun |
boring | ์ง๋ฃจํ | jiluhan |
normal | ์ ์ | jeongsang |
strange | ์ด์ํ | isanghan |
outside | ๋ฐ์ | bakk-ui |
inside | ๋ด๋ถ์ | naebue |
the entrance | ์ ๊ตฌ | ibgu |
the exit | ์ถ๊ตฌ | chulgu |
white | ํ์ | hayan |
black | ๊ฒ์์ | geom-eunsaeg |
expensive | ๊ฐ๋น์ผ | gabsbissan |
cheap | ๊ฐ์ด ์ผ | gabs-i ssan |
USEFUL VERBS | ||
to walk | ๊ฑท๋ค | geodda |
to run | ๋ฌ๋ฆฌ๋ค | dallida |
to attach | ๋ถ์ฐฉํ๋ค | buchaghada |
to detach | ๋ถ๋ฆฌํ๋ค | bunlihada |
to go up | ์ฌ๋ผ๊ฐ๋ค | ollagada |
to go down | ๋ด๋ ค๊ฐ๋ค | naelyeogada |
to increase | ์ฆ๊ฐ ์ํค๋ ค๊ณ | jeung-ga sikilyeogo |
to decrease | ๊ฐ์ํ๋ค | gamsohada |
to stop | ๊ทธ๋งํ๋ค | geumanhada |
to continue | ๊ณ์ํ๋ค | gyesoghada |
to take off | ์ด๋ฅํ๋ค | ilyughada |
to land | ์ฐฉ๋ฅ | chaglyug |
to put on | ์ ๋ฃ์ด | e neoh-eo |
to remove | ์ ๊ฑฐ | jegeo |
to move forward | ์ ์งํ๋ค | jeonjinhada |
to move back | ๋ค๋ก ์ด๋ | dwilo idong |
to forget | ์๋ค | ijda |
to remember | ๊ธฐ์ตํ๋ค | gieoghada |
to show | ๋ณด์ฌ์ฃผ๋ค | boyeojuda |
to hide | ์จ๊ธฐ๋ ค๊ณ | sumgilyeogo |
to save | ์ ์ฅ | jeojang |
to spend | ์ง์ถ | jichul |
to build | ์ง๋ค | jisda |
to destroy | ํ๊ดด | pagoe |
to arrive | ๋์ฐฉํ๋ค | dochaghada |
to leave | ๋ ๋๋ค | tteonada |
to enter | ๋ค์ด๊ฐ๋ค | deul-eogada |
to go out | ์ธ์ถํ๋ค | oechulhada |
to laugh | ์๋ค | usda |
to cry | ์ธ๋ค | ulda |
to sell | ํ๋ค | palda |
to buy | ์ฌ๋ค | sada |
to break | ๋ถ์๋ค | busuda |
to repair | ์๋ฆฌํ๋ค | sulihada |
to lend | ๋น๋ ค | billyeo |
to borrow | ๋น๋ฆฌ๋ค | billida |
to earn | ๋ฒ๋ค | beolda |
to lose | ์๋ค | ilhda |
to slow down | ์๋๋ฅผ ๋ฆ์ถ๋ค | sogdoleul neujchuda |
to speed up | ์๋๋ฅผ ๋์ด๋ค | sogdoleul nop-ida |
to search | ๊ฒ์ํ๊ธฐ | geomsaeghagi |
to find | ์ฐพ๋ค | chajda |
to pull | ๋น๊ฒจ | dang-gyeo |
to push | ๋ฐ์ด | mil-eo |
to take | ๊ฐ์ง๋ค | gajida |
to give | ์ฃผ๋ค | juda |
to wake up | ์ผ์ด๋ | il-eona |
to fall asleep | ์ ๋ค | jamdeul |
to hold | ๋ณด์ | boyu |
to let go | ๋์์ฃผ๋ค | noh-ajuda |
to turn on | ์ผ๋ค | kyeoda |
to turn off | ๋๋ค | kkeuda |
to sell | ํ๋ค | palda |
to buy | ์ฌ๋ค | sada |
to send | ๋ณด๋ด๋ค | bonaeda |
to receive | ๋ฐ๋ค | badda |
โก๏ธ More Korean vocabulary lists:
- Greetings
- Basic words to learn
- 100 most common Korean verbs
- Useful adverbs
- Useful adjectives
- Family and friends
- The city and public places
- The human body, head and face
- Travel and tourism
- The calendar (days, months, seasons)
- Colors and shapes
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