[MANNAM KOREAN CLASS] Korean Number – Lesson 2

[MANNAM KOREAN CLASS] Korean Number – Lesson 2

Did you memorize all the Korean numbers?

If you did, you are half way done.

The other half that we will talk about today is count unit.

In English, only a number goes well with the sentence.

However, when you speak Korean, you have to add count unit with the number.

It’s okay until here, but the thing is, counts units are different depends on object.

At first, when Korean kids learn this, they also have hard time memorizing all the units, but you will get used to it when you use this a lot.

There are lots of different kinds of units but today, I will talk about some of the units, that is used the most.

Object	Unit	Pronunciation
Things	개	gae
Person	명	myeong
Animal	마리	ma-ri
Book	권	gwan
Paper	장	jang
Bottle	병	byeong

These units are added with Korean numbers. Not sino numbers.

But, the thing is, when number is added with units, some of number’s from changes.

These are the four Korean numbers that changes.

숫자(Number)	Form added with unit	Pronunciation
하나	한	han
둘	두	du
셋	세	sae
넷	네	nae

Only these four number changes and others stay the same.

So, here are the examples.

Object	(숫자)Number	단위(Unit)
사람(person)	1/하나/한	명(myeong)	사람 한 명
콜라(coke)	2/둘/두	병(byeong)	콜라 두 병
책(book)	3/셋/세	권(gwan)	책 세 권
강아지(puppy)	4/넷/네	마리(ma-ri)	강아지 네 마리
사과(apple)	5/다섯	개(gae)	사과 다섯 개
프린트(print)	6/여섯	장(jang)	프린트 여섯 장

  

If, you are confused and can’t remember these units, just use ‘개’.

However, when you are saying about person, don’t use ‘개’.

Make sure you use 명‘ instead of ’개‘.

You don’t want to make person as an animal, right?

Be careful about this!