60 Phrases Covering Majority Of Grammatical Structures in Korean

This list contains 60 common phrases in Korean that cover a wide range of grammatical structures. Each phrase is accompanied by its English translation, example sentence, and transliteration.


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์šฐ๋ฆฌ (uri) โ†’ We/Us

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์นœ๊ตฌ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (We are friends.)

๋ช‡ (myeot) โ†’ How many

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ๋ช‡ ์‚ด์ž…๋‹ˆ๊นŒ? (How old are you?)

์ด๊ฒƒ (igeos) โ†’ This thing

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ์ด๊ฒƒ์€ ๋ฌด์—‡์ž…๋‹ˆ๊นŒ? (What is this thing?)

์—†๋‹ค (eobsda) โ†’ To not have/There is not

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ์ €๋Š” ๋ˆ์ด ์—†์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (I don't have money.)

์žˆ๋‹ค (issda) โ†’ To have/There is

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ์ €๋Š” ๋ˆ์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (I have money.)

๋„ค (ne) โ†’ Yes

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ๋„ค, ๊ทธ๋ ‡์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (Yes, that's right.)

์ด (i) โ†’ This

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ์ด๊ฒƒ์€ ๋ฌด์—‡์ž…๋‹ˆ๊นŒ? (What is this?)

์•„๋‹ˆ์š” (aniyo) โ†’ No

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ์•„๋‹ˆ์š”, ๊ทธ๋ ‡์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (No, that's not right.)

๋ฏธ์•ˆํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค (mianhamnida) โ†’ Sorry

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ๋ฏธ์•ˆํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์‹ค์ˆ˜ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (Sorry. I made a mistake.)

์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์„ธ์š” (annyeonghaseyo) โ†’ Hello

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์„ธ์š”? ์ €๋Š” ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (Hello? I am an American.)

๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค (gamsahamnida) โ†’ Thank you

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋„์™€์ฃผ์…”์„œ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (Thank you. Thank you for helping me.)

๊ทธ (geu) โ†’ He/She/It

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ๊ทธ๋Š” ํ•™์ƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (He is a student.)

๊ทธ๋“ค (geudeul) โ†’ They

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ๊ฐ€์กฑ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (They are family.)

๋‹น์‹  (dangsin) โ†’ You

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ๋‹น์‹ ์€ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด์„ธ์š”? (Are you an American?)

๊ทธ (geu) โ†’ That

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋ฌด์—‡์ž…๋‹ˆ๊นŒ? (What is that?)

์–ด๋–ค (eotteon) โ†’ What kind of

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ์–ด๋–ค ์ฑ…์„ ์ข‹์•„ํ•˜์„ธ์š”? (What kind of books do you like?)

๋งŽ์€ (manh-eun) โ†’ Many/A lot of

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ์ €๋Š” ๋งŽ์€ ์ฑ…์„ ์ฝ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (I read a lot of books.)

์ ์€ (jeog-eun) โ†’ Few/A little

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ์ ์€ ๋ˆ์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (I have a little money.)

๋ˆ„๊ตฌ (nugu) โ†’ Who

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ๋ˆ„๊ตฌ์„ธ์š”? (Who are you?)

๋ฌด์—‡ (mueos) โ†’ What

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ๋ฌด์—‡์„ ์ฐพ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‚˜์š”? (What are you looking for?)

์–ธ์ œ (eonje) โ†’ When

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ์–ธ์ œ ๊ฐˆ ๊ฑด๊ฐ€์š”? (When are you going?)

์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ (eotteohge) โ†’ How

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๋ฉด ๋˜๋‚˜์š”? (How can I do it?)

๊ฐ€๋‹ค (gada) โ†’ To go

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ์ €๋Š” ํ•™๊ต์— ๊ฐ€๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (I am going to school.)

๋จน๋‹ค (meogda) โ†’ To eat

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ์ €๋Š” ๋ฐฅ์„ ๋จน๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (I am eating rice.)

๋งˆ์‹œ๋‹ค (masida) โ†’ To drink

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ์ €๋Š” ๋ฌผ์„ ๋งˆ์‹œ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (I am drinking water.)

๋“ฃ๋‹ค (deutda) โ†’ To listen/To hear

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ์ €๋Š” ์Œ์•…์„ ๋“ฃ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (I am listening to music.)

๋‚˜์˜๋‹ค (nappeuda) โ†’ To be bad

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ์ด ์˜ํ™”๋Š” ๋ณ„๋กœ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (This movie is not good.)

์ž‘๋‹ค (jakda) โ†’ To be small/Little

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ์ด ๊ฐ€๋ฐฉ์€ ์ž‘์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (This bag is small.)

๋†’๋‹ค (nopda) โ†’ To be high/Tall

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ์ด ๊ฑด๋ฌผ์€ ๋†’์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (This building is tall.)

๋ชจ๋“  (modeun) โ†’ All/Every

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ๋ชจ๋“  ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ์ข‹์•„ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (Everyone likes it.)

์–ด๋”” (eodi) โ†’ Where

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ์–ด๋””์—์„œ ์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๊นŒ? (Where are you from?)

์˜ค๋‹ค (oda) โ†’ To come

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ์ €๋Š” ์ง‘์—์„œ ์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (I came from home.)

์ข‹๋‹ค (jota) โ†’ To be good/Nice

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ์ด ์Œ์‹์€ ๋ง›์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (This food is delicious.)

๊ทธ๊ฒƒ (geugos) โ†’ That thing

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋ฌด์—‡์ž…๋‹ˆ๊นŒ? (What is that thing?)

์™œ (wae) โ†’ Why

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ์™œ ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋‚˜์š”? (Why do you think that way?)

ํฌ๋‹ค (keuda) โ†’ To be big/Large

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ์ด ๋ฐฉ์€ ํฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (This room is big.)

๋‚ฎ๋‹ค (nadta) โ†’ To be low/Short

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ์ด ์˜์ž๋Š” ๋‚ฎ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (This chair is short.)

์ € (jeo) โ†’ I

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ์ €๋Š” ํ•œ๊ตญ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (I am Korean.)

๋ณด๋‹ค (boda) โ†’ To see/To watch

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ์ €๋Š” ์˜ํ™”๋ฅผ ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (I am watching a movie.)

ํ•˜๋‹ค (hada) โ†’ To do

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ์ €๋Š” ์ผ์„ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (I am doing work.)

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