numbers (*)

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so there's one thing that I forgot about the numbers :
the sino-korean numbers (일, 이, 삼, 사, 오,...) are used in limited situations :

➡ counting / dealing with money
➡ measuring
➡ doing math
➡ phone numbers
➡ talking about time / counting time in any way except the hour
➡ names of each month (I'll tell you later)
➡ counting months

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(just in case you didn't understood how to create the numbers in native korean):

11: 10+1 = 열하나
12 : 10+2 = 열둘
21 : 20+1 = 스물하나
59 :50+9 = 쉰아홉

it's the same for the others (from 11 to 59)

after 60, these numbers are rarely used (regardless of what you are doing). But please note that native (pure) korean numbers are used when:

➡counting things / people / actions
➡talking about the hour in time
➡used when talking about months (sometimes)

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