Vocabulary

과목	school subject
몇 과목을 들으세요?	How many subjects (courses) are you taking?
수업	a class, lesson [at school]
경제학	Economics
경제	economy
정치학	Politics [as a field of study], Political Science
정치	politics
한국학	Korean Studies
…(을) 전공(을) 하-	major in something / 한국학을 전공하다
전공이 뭐예요?	What’s your major?
교재	teaching materials; textbook
대학	4-year college

사랑(을) 하-	love
야구(를) 하-	play baseball
야구	baseball
예약(을) 하-	make a reservation
예약	reservation
통화(를) 하-	get through to/contact somebody by telephone; talk by telephone
수영(을) 하-	swim
수영장	swimming pool
청소(를) 하-	clean up, tidy up
…(을) 좋아하-	like it
나쁘-	be bad
깨끗하-	be clean
깨끗이	neatly, cleanly
같-	be similar; be the same [as something – 하고, (이)랑]
같이 [가치]	together

깎-	cut [hair], sharpen [pencil], mow [grass]
연필을 깎아요	Sharpens a pencil.
머리를 깎아요	Gets a haircut. (for males)
머리(를) 자르-	get a haircut (for females)
어려w-	be difficult 어렵다
쉬w-	be easy 쉽다
착하-	be good by nature; be a “good boy” [girl, dog, etc.]
말(을) 들-	obey (“listens to words”) 듣다
말을 잘 들어요	Obeys well.
약(을) 먹-	take (“eat”) medicine
약	medicine
쓰-	use
싸-	be cheap, inexpensive
힘(이) 드-ㄹ-	be difficult, taxing 들다
힘	strength, energy
오늘은 힘이 없어요.	I have no energy today.

괜찮-	be all right, OK
돼요.	It’s OK; It’ll do.
안 돼요.	It’snot OK; It won’t do; One mustn’t do it.
잘 돼요.	It’s going well. It’s turning out well.
잘 안 돼요.	It’s not going well.
머-ㄹ-	be distant, far 멀다
여기서 멀어요?	Is it far from here?
네, 한 시간 걸려요.	Yes, it takes an hour.
알아들-	understand [spoken words], “catch” something said [lit.: “know and hear”] 알아듣다
부탁(을) 하-	make a request, ask a favor/errand
부탁	a request, favor
사람한테 부탁을 하다	ask somebody for a favor
사람한테 부탁이 있다	have a favor to ask of somebody
부탁해요.	Please, I beg you. or I’m counting on you ? please do it for me.
만호 씨한테 부탁 하나 있어요.	Manho, I have a favor to ask of you.

잡수시-	eat (honorific)
고기 더 잡수세요.	Please eat some more meat. (to a guest, your parents, etc.)
고기 더 먹어요.	Please eat some more meat. (to a friend you usually call . . .씨)
주무시-	sleep (honorific)
안녕히 주무세요.	Good night (to somebody esteemed, e.g. your parents)
잘 자요.	Good night (to a friend you usually call . . .씨)
잘 자.	Good night (your parents to you; you to a close friend or younger sibling)
계시-	be, exist, stay (honorific)
교수님 계세요?	Is Professor at home?
만호씨 있어요?	Is Manho at home?
드시-	eat, drink (honorific)
자, 많이 드세요.	Well then, bon appetit [“eat up”, “please eat a lot”] (to a guest, your parents, etc.)
자, 많이 먹어요.	Well then, bon appetit (to a friend you usually call . . .씨)
자, 많이 먹어.	Well then, bon appetit (your parents to you; you to a close friend or younger sibling)

좀a little; please [to soften a request or command]

늘	always, all the time, continuously
항상	always, at all times, habitually
언제나	always
주로	mainly; mostly, for the most part
가끔	sometimes
자주	often
매일	every day
열심히	diligently
공부를 열심히 해요.	She studies hard/diligently.

아직	(not) yet, still
먼저	first (of all), before anything else
함께	together
사람하고 함께	together with a person
참	truly, really
정말(로)	the truth (truly, really)
정말이에요?	Really? Is it true?
정말로 커요.	It is really/truly large.
정열적(으로)	passionate(ly)
천천히	slowly
너무	too much so, too; very [“to an excessive degree”]
언젠가	some time or other; at one time, once; some time ago

버스, 뻐스	bus
런던	London
전화	telephone
전화(를) 하-	make a telephone call
뉴욕	New York
다른	NOUN (an)other NOUN(s)
교회	church [Protestant]
교회에 나가세요?	Do you go to church?
나가-	attend, go to (church)
성당	church [Catholic]
신용카드	credit card
성	surname, last name
성씨	[your or his] esteemed surname / last name
이름	name, given name
성함	[someone’sesteemed] name (honorific equivalent of 이름]
성함이 어떻게 되세요?	What is you name?
머리	head; hair
머리(가) 좋아요.	She is smart.
머리(가) 나빠요.	She is dumb.

회화	conversation
영어회화책	English conversation book
말씀	words, speech [an honorific or humble equivalent of 말]
말씀하세요.	Go ahead = Please say what it is you have to say.
한국어	Korean language
국립 NOUN	a national[-ly established] NOUN
국립대학교	a national university
주	a state, a province
미네소타주	Minnesota; the state of Minnesota
주립 NOUN	a state [-established] NOUN, provincial[-ly established] NOUN
주립대학교	a state university
사립 NOUN	a private[-ly established] NOUN
사립대학교	a private university
교환	exchange
교환학생	exchange student
교환교수	exchange professor
교환원	[switchboard-, telephone exchange-] operator
주스	juice
오렌지 주스	orange juice
토마토 주스	tomato juice