This is the ultimate list of most common and frequently used Korean vocabulary. Whether you are a beginner, intermediate of advanced level learner of Korean language, you should learn these Korean words first. The list contains the most basic and useful Korean vocabulary from every category like Korean verbs, Korean Adjectives, Korean Adverbs and theme based Korean vocabulary like words related to school life, transportation, time, household stuff, days of the week, names of months and so on. These words are very important for the TOPIK test as well.
20 Most Common Korean Adjectives
Good
좋아요
joayo
Bad
나빠요
nappayo
Big
커요
keoyo
Small
작아요
jagayo
Long
길어요
gireoyo
Short
짧아요
chalbayo
Expensive
비싸요
bissayo
Cheap
싸요
ssayo
Busy
바빠요
bappayo
Delicious
맛있어요
masisseoyo
Difficult
어려워요
eoryeowoyo
Easy
쉬워요
suiwoyo
Far
멀어요
meoreoyo
Near
가까워요
gakkawoyo
Clean
깨끗해요
kaekkeuthaeyo
Dirty
더러워요
deoreoeoyo
Beautiful
예뻐요
yeppeoyo
Kind
친절해요
chinjeorhaeyo
Quiet
조용해요
joyonghaeyo
Interesting
재미있어요
jaemiisseoyo
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Question….so what about people. Like Mr., Miss, He, She, Girl, Boy, I and stuff?
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It’s very helpful. Literally, it helped me so much to learn useful common words from many topics rather than spending so much time in learning many vocab of one topics and then forgetting all which was not strategical learning. Thank you very much, i have completed all existing vocabulary and waiting for more new word meanings.
Question….so what about people. Like Mr., Miss, He, She, Girl, Boy, I and stuff?
Mr and Mrs is 씨 he is 그 she is girl is 여자 boy is 남자 I is 나 you is 너
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Also, there is a mistake on ”carefully” u wrote 정류장 in hangul.
What is it supposed to be?
It’s supposed to be 조심히… 정류장 is “a type of field”, I think it belongs with the list below about medical stuff.
정류장 is the word for a bus stop.
Girl i am trying my best. hangul alphabet is easy but to pronunc it is bad
Is there going to be more words? This isn’t 1000 words so I just wanted to ask…
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Any list that doesn’t include 있다 and 없다 is a bit suspect.
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It’s very helpful. Literally, it helped me so much to learn useful common words from many topics rather than spending so much time in learning many vocab of one topics and then forgetting all which was not strategical learning. Thank you very much, i have completed all existing vocabulary and waiting for more new word meanings.
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정류장 Doesn’t mean carefully. Last row of adverbs
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