KOREAN - ON HOLD

Lesson 3

Nouns:
음식 = food

케이크 = cake

공항 = airport

병원 = hospital

공원 = park

한국어 = Korean (language)

머리 = head

다리 = leg

손가락 = finger

귀 = ear

팔 = arm

눈 = eye

입 = mouth

배 = stomach

버스 = bus

배 = boat

우리 = us/we

Verbs:
먹다 = to eat

가다 = to go

만나다 = to meet

닫다 = to close

열다 = to open

원하다 = to want (an object)

만들다 = to make

하다 = to do

말하다 = to speak

이해하다 = to understand

좋아하다 = to like

Adjectives:
크다 = to be big

작다 = to be small

새롭다 = to be new

The pronunciation of this word is closer to "새롭따"

새롭다  follows the ㅂ irregular. See Lesson 7 for more information.

Examples:
저는 새로운 차를 샀어요 = I bought a new car
그 병원은 새로워요 = That hospital is new
저는 새로운 차를 사고 싶어요 = I want to buy a new car
저는 새로운 안경을 샀어요 = I bought new glasses
저는 새로운 바지를 사야 돼요 = I need to buy new pants
우리 회사는 새로운 회사원을 찾고 있어요 = Our company is looking for new workers
새로운 핸드폰을 사고 전화번호를 바꿨어요 = After buying a newphone, I changed my phone number

낡다 = to be old (not age)

비싸다 = to be expensive

싸다 = to not be expensive, to be cheap

아름답다 = to be beautiful

뚱뚱하다 = to be fat, to be chubby

길다 = to be long

좋다 = to be good

Adverbs:
아주 = very

매우 = very

너무 = too (often used to mean 'very')

Okay, now it is time to get serious. Now it is time to start learning things that you can apply to any verb or any adjective. There are a few things you need to know about Korean verbs and adjectives:

I said this before (twice) but I'm going to say it again. Every Korean sentence must end in either a verb or an adjective (this includes 이다 and 있다). Every sentence absolutely must have a verb or adjective at the end of the sentence.You should notice (it took me months to notice) that every Korean verb and adjective ends with the syllable '다.' 100% of the time, the last syllable in a verb or adjective must be '다.' Look up at the vocabulary from this lesson if you don't believe me.In addition to ending in '다' many verbs and adjectives end with the two syllables '하다.' '하다' means 'do.' Verbs ending in 하다 are amazing, because you can simply eliminate the '하다' to make the noun form of that verb/adjective.
Confused? I was at first too. In fact, I don't think I knew this until 3 months after I started studying Korean – but it is something so essential to learning the language. It is confusing to English speakers because we don't realize that words can have a verb/adjective form AND a noun form.