Sino & Native Korean Numbers
Native Korean Numbers
Native-Korean numbers
With native-Korean numbers, you only have to learn the numbers from 1 to 99. There are certain words for numbers above 100, but these words are never used, so you only need to learn the numbers 1 to 99.
Also, there is no ‘zero’ in native Korean numbers, so we only use the zero from sino-Korean numbers.
With native-Korean numbers, you only have to learn the numbers from 1 to 99. There are certain words for numbers above 100, but these words are never used, so you only need to learn the numbers 1 to 99.
Also, there is no ‘zero’ in native Korean numbers, so we only use the zero from sino-Korean numbers.
1 to 10
- 1 – 하나 (hana) / 하(han)
- 2 – 둘 (dul) / 두 (du)
- 3 – 셋 (se) / 세 (se)
- 4 – 넷 (net) / 네 (ne)
- 5 – 다섯 (daseot)
- 6 – 여섯 (yeoseot)
- 7 – 일곱 (ilgob)
- 8 – 여덟 (yeodeol)
- 9 – 아홉 (ahop)
- 10 – 열 (yeol)
20, 30, 40
Similar to English numbers, native-Korean number system has specific words for double-digit numbers that end in zero, and these are numbers like 20, 30, 40, and so on.- 20 – 스물 (seumul)
- 30 – 서른 (seoreun)
- 40 – 마흔 (maheun)
- 50 – 쉰 (swin)
- 60 – 예순 (yesun)
- 70 – 일흔 (ilheun)
- 80 – 여든 (yeodeun)
- 90 – 아흔 (aheun)