30 Essential Korean Adjectives For Beginners

Target level

TTMIK Level 1

What can you achieve through this course?

  • Learn the 30 essential Korean adjectives and how to change their forms to use in sentences
  • Improve your pronunciation by listening and repeating after the native speaker

 

Sample lesson

 

Lecturers

Cassie
Jooyeon

Course language

Korean, English

What can you find inside the course?

  • 30 lessons
  • Lesson notes for each lesson that include extra example sentences

Table of contents

  1. ํฐ big
  2. ์ž‘์€ small
  3. ๋จผ far
  4. ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์šด close
  5. ์‰ฌ์šด easy
  6. ์–ด๋ ค์šด difficult
  7. ์ถ”์šด cold
  8. ๋”์šด hot
  9. ๊ท€์—ฌ์šด cute
  10. ์ข์€ narrow
  11. ๋„“์€ spacious, broad
  12. ๋Šฆ์€ late
  13. ์‹ผ cheap
  14. ๋น„์‹ผ expensive
  15. ์•„ํ”ˆ sick
  16. ๋Š๋ฆฐ slow
  17. ๋น ๋ฅธ fast, quick
  18. ๊ฐ™์€ same
  19. ์˜ˆ์œ pretty
  20. ์ข‹์€ good
  21. ๋งŽ์€ much, many
  22. ์ ์€ few, little
  23. ์–‡์€ thin
  24. ๋‘๊บผ์šด thick
  25. ๊นจ๋—ํ•œ clean
  26. ๋”๋Ÿฌ์šด dirty
  27. ๋ฐ์€ bright
  28. ์–ด๋‘์šด dark
  29. ๊ธด long
  30. ์งง์€ short

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Reviews

  1. Elahe Safaei-Jazi,

    Hello,
    What is the meaning of ๊ฒŒ in the sentence “ํ‚ค๊ฐ€ ์ž‘์€ ๊ฒŒ ์ฝคํ”Œ๋ ‰์Šค์˜ˆ์š””?

    • CH B,

      ๊ฒŒ is a contraction of ๊ฒƒ์ด which turns the adjective ์ž‘์€ into a noun phrase. Meaning “the thing about being short” or “the fact that I am short”

  2. Jenie Yao Chan,

    Can you please explain the difference between the 2 sentences?
    ์•„ํ”„์ง€ ๋ง์•„์š”.
    ์•„ํ”„์ง€ ๋งˆ์„ธ์š”.

    • Talk To Me In Korean,

      ์•„ํ”„์ง€ ๋ง์•„์š” is a more casual expression used among close acquaintances, while ์•„ํ”„์ง€ ๋งˆ์„ธ์š” is a more polite form. Therefore, it is better to say ์•„ํ”„์ง€ ๋งˆ์„ธ์š” to elders.

  3. Kyoko1337,

    I have a question. The adjective ์ข์€ is ์ค๋‹ค in itโ€™s infinitive form. Why is it conjugated to ์ข์•„์š” when the verb stem ends with ใ…‚ and is followed by a conjugation that starts with a vowel. I thought this would be an irregular form and has to be ์ฃผ์›Œ์š”. Thank you for your help ๐Ÿ™‚

    • Sagwa,

      I think ์ข๋‹ค is a regular verb (unlike the other verbs in -ใ…‚๋‹ค) so it is conjugated to ์ข์•„์š”. It is the same for ์žก๋‹ค (to catch) which is conjugated to ์žก์•„์š” and not to ์ž์›Œ์š”.

    • Kyoko1337,

      Sry itโ€™s ์ข๋‹ค in the infinitive form and I thought it has to be ์กฐ์›Œ์š”

  4. Ava,

    Hi there. I am a premium member, but it still says the bottom section of the course is blocked to me because I am not a member. Can you please help me? Thanks!

    • CA,

      Did you click add to my learning center?

    • Talk To Me In Korean,

      This issue has been fixed right away.
      For your reference, you had full access to the materials even though the message said the section is not available for you.
      Thank you for your patience!

    • TheSa,

      I have the exact same problem with the dialogue between native speakers even though I’m a premium member.

    • Myuri,

      It’s the same for me, the “dialogue between native speakers” is blocked for me and I’m a premium member.

    • Talk To Me In Korean,

      Sorry for the inconvenience. Could you send us an email?
      —>[email protected]

  5. Ben,

    ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์ข‹์•„์š”. ์ •๋ง ์ข‹์•„ํ•ด์š”. ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค!

    • Talk To Me In Korean,

      ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ด์š”! ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด ๊ณต๋ถ€ ์ฆ๊ฒ๊ฒŒ ํ•ด์š”. ๐Ÿ™‚

  6. Ellie House,

    Hi there,
    As a beginner- I have just been listening to the single word then a simple sentence or example given to learn the word in context as well as well as taking notes- this course is so good for simple vocab and easy to hear and learn from. The course being short also makes it less over whelming and gain a real sense of achievement! Thank you TIMIK ๐Ÿ™‚

    • Talk To Me In Korean,

      We appreciate your valued feedback. We hope you keep practicing and improving your Korean. ๐Ÿ’—