์๋ ํ์ธ์! Annyeonghaseyo! Language in general, may it be English or Korean, uses adverbs to express certain statements. This article will be your guide to know more about Korean adverbs.
Here are the 100 most common Korean adverbs useful in daily life conversations.


Adverbs / ๋ถ์ฌ [ Boosa]
Adverbs of manner / ์ํ ๋ถ์ฌ [yangtae boosa]
ํ๊ธ | Pronunciation | Translation |
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์ข๋ค - ์ข๊ฒ | Johta - johke | Good- well |
๋์๋ค - ๋์๊ฒ | Napeuda - napuege | Bad - badly |
๊ท์ฝ๋ค - ๊ท์ฝ๊ฒ | Kweyeopta - kweyeopke | Cute - cutely |
์๋ฆ๋ต๋ค - ์๋ฆ๋ต๊ฒ | Aruemdapta- aruemdapke | Beautiful - beautifully |
๋น์ธ๋ค - ๋น์ธ๊ฒ | Bissada - bissage | Expensive - expensively |
์ธ๋ค - ์ธ๊ฒ | Ssada - ssage | Cheap - cheaply |
๋ฉ์ง๋ค - ๋ฉ์ง๊ฒ | Meotjida - meotjige | Awesome - awesomely |
๊ฐํ๋ค - ๊ฐํ๊ฒ | Ganghada - ganghage | Strong - strongly |
์ฝํ๋ค - ์ฝํ๊ฒ | Yakhada - yakhage | Weak - weakly |
๋ง์๋ค - ๋ง์๊ฒ | Mashita - mashike | Delicious - deliciously |
ํฌ๋ค - ํฌ๊ฒ | Keuda - keuge | Large - largely |
๊ธธ๋ค - ๊ธธ๊ฒ | Kilda - kilge | Long - lengthily |
์งง๋ค - ์งง๊ฒ | Dzabta - dzabge | Short- shortly |
๋๋ค - ๋๊ฒ | Neolbta - neolbge | Wide - widely |
์๋ค - ์๊ฒ | Jakta - jakge | Small - little |
๋ฐ๋ค - ๋ฐ๊ฒ | Balkta - balkge | Bright- brightly |
์ด๋ก๋ค- ์ด๋ก๊ฒ | Eodoopta - eodoopge | Dark- darkly |
๋ฅ๊ธ๋ค - ๋ฅ๊ทธ๋ ๊ฒ | Donggeulda - donggeureoke | Round - roundly |
ํํํ๋ค - ํํํ๊ฒ | Pyeongpyeonghada - pyeongpyeonghage | Flat - flatly |
๋๋ฐ๋ฅด๋ค - ๋๋ฐ๋ฅด๊ฒ | Ttokbareuda - ttokbareuge | Straight - straightly |
ํ๋ณตํ๋ค - ํ๋ณตํ๊ฒ | Haengbokhada - haengbokhage | Happy- happily |
ํผ๊ณคํ๋ค - ํผ๊ณคํ๊ฒ | Pigonhada - pigonhage | Tired- tiredly |
ํฅ๋ถํ๋ค - ํฅ๋ถํ๊ฒ | Heungbonhada - heungbonhage | Excited - excitedly |
ํ๋ฅญํ๋ค - ํ๋ฅญํ๊ฒ | Hoolyoonghada - hoolyoonghage | Wonderful - wonderfully |
์น์ ํ๋ค - ์น์ ํ๊ฒ | Chinjeorhada - chinjeorhage | Polite - politely |
๊ธฐ์๋ค - ๊ธฐ์๊ฒ | Kipeuda - kipeuge | Glad - gladly |
์ฌํ๋ค - ์ฌํ๊ฒ | Seulpeuda - seulpeuge | Sad - sadly |
์ข๋ค - ์ข๊ฒ | Johta- johke | Good - well |
๋ฏผ๊ฐํ๋ค - ๋ฏผ๊ฐํ๊ฒ | Mingamhada - mingamhage | Sensitive - sensitively |
ํ๋๋ค - ํ๋๊ฒ | Hwanada - hwanage | Angry - angrily |
ํ๊ธ | Pronunciation | Translation |
---|---|---|
์์ ํ๋ค - ์์ ํ | Wanjeonhada - wanjeonhi | Complete - completely |
์์งํ๋ค - ์์งํ | Soljikhada - soljikhage | Honest - honestly |
๋ถ๋ช ํ๋ค - ๋ถ๋ช ํ | Boonmyeonhada - boonmyeonghage | Obvious - obviously |
์ฐ์ฐํ๋ค - ์ฐ์ฐํ | Wooyeonhada - wooyeonhage | Coincidental - coincidentally |
ํ์คํ๋ค - ํ์คํ | Hwakshilhada - hwakshilhage | Sure - surely |
์ ํํ๋ค - ์ ํํ | Jeonghwakhada - jeonghwakhage | Exact - exactly |
๊ฐ๋จํ๋ค - ๊ฐ๋จํ | Kantanhada - kantanhage | Simple - simply |
์๋นํ๋ค - ์๋นํ | Sangdanghada - sangdanghage | Considerable - considerably |
์ฒ์ฒํ | cheoncheonhi | slowly |
์ด์ฌํ | Yeolshimhi | zealously |
*Please note that the last two examples differ from the others as they donโt have ํ๋ค and their root word is at it is.
*Adverbs from noun words ending with ์ ์ผ๋ก and ์ผ๋ก / jeogeuro and euro.
ํ๊ธ | Pronunciation | Translation |
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์ผ๋ฐ - ์ผ๋ฐ์ ์ผ๋ก | ilban- ilbanjeogeuro | Common- commonly |
๊ธฐ๋ณธ - ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ ์ผ๋ก | Gibon - gibonjeogeuro | Standard - standardly |
๊ธฐ์ - ๊ธฐ์ ์ ์ผ๋ก | Gijeok - gijeokjeogeuro | Miracle- miraculously |
๊ณต์ - ๊ณต์์ ์ผ๋ก | Gongshik - gongshikjeogeuro | Official - officially |
์๋ - ์๋์ ์ผ๋ก | Euydo -euydojeogeuro | Intention - intentionally |
์๋ - ์๋์ผ๋ก | Jagong - jadong euro | Automatic - automatically |
์๋ - ์๋์ผ๋ก | Soodong- soodong euro | Manual - manually |
์ฌ์ - ์ฌ์ ์ผ๋ก | Sajeok - sajeogeuro | Personal - personally |
์ ์ - ์ ์ ์ผ๋ก | Jeonjeog - jeonjeogeuro | Whole - wholly |
์ง์ - ์ง์ ์ผ๋ก | Jiljeog- jiljeogeuro | Qualitative - qualitatively |
Adverbs of time / ์๊ฐ ๋ถ์ฌ [ shigan boosa]
ํ๊ธ | Pronunciation | Translation |
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์ค๋ | oneul | today |
์ด์ | eoje | yesterday |
๋ด์ผ | neyl | tomorrow |
์ง๊ธ | jogeum | now |
๋์ค์ | najoongye | later/ after a while |
์ค๋ ๋ฐค | Oneul bam | tonight |
๋งค์ผ | meyl | Everyday / daily |
์ฃผ๊ฐ | Joogan | Every week / weekly |
๋งค๋ | menyeon | Every year / yearly |
๋ง์นจ๋ค | machimne | finally |
๊ณง | gwot | soon |
์ ์ | jeone | before |
ํ์ | hoowe | after |
์ด๋ฏธ | imi | already |
์์ง | ajik | yet |
Adverbs of place / ์ฅ์ ๋ถ์ฌ [ jangso boosa]
ํ๊ธ | Pronunciation | Translation |
---|---|---|
์์ | ane | inside |
๋ฐ์ | bakke | outside |
์ฌ๊ฒ | yeoge | here |
์ ๊ฒ | jeoge | that |
๊ฑฐ๊ฒ | geoge | there |
์์ | wiye | above |
๋ฐ์ | mitte | below |
์์ | ape | In front |
๋ค์ | dwiye | At the back |
์ค๋ค | shilne | indoor |
์ผ์ธ | yawe | outdoor |
๊น๊น์ | kakaye | near |
๋ฉ์ | meole | far |
์์ฉ | widzeok | left |
์ค๋ฅธ์ฉ | oreundzeok | right |
Adverbs of frequency / ๋น๋ ๋ถ์ฌ [ bindo boosa]
ํ๊ธ | Pronunciation | Translation |
---|---|---|
ํญ์ | hangsang | always |
๊น๋ | kakeum | sometimes |
์์ฃผ | jajoo | often |
ํ๋ฒ์ฉ | hanbeonshik | Once in a while |
์ ๋ | jeolte | never |
๋๋๋ก | ttettero | occasionally |
๊ท์น์ ์ผ๋ก | kyoochikjeogeuro | regularly |
๋ณดํต์ผ๋ก | Botong euro | normally |
์ต๊ด์ ์ผ๋ก | seupgwanjeogeuro | habitually |
๋๋ฌผ๊ฒ | deumoolge | rarely |
Adverbs in never changing forms
ํ๊ธ | Pronunciation | Translation |
---|---|---|
๊ฝค | kkwe | quite |
๋ง์ด | manhi | plenty |
์์ฃผ | ajoo | very |
์ผ๋ถ๋ฌ | ilbooreo | intentionally |
ํจ๋ถ๋ก | hambooro | thoughtlessly |
๊ผญ | kkok | must |
๋ฐ๋์ | bandeushi | At all cost |
๊ฐ์๊ธฐ | gapjagi | suddenly |
ํ๋ฆผ ์์ด | Teulim eopshi | certainly |
๋ฐ๋ก | baro | immediately |
Conclusion
Way to go! As we can notice, though the language is different, English and Korean adverbs uses and roles are quite similar. Such as, changing the word endings. As well as having different types of adverbs.
Just like English, Korean language also has its exceptions to the rules. Meaning, not only the words with suffix -ly are considered as adverbs. But be reminded that not all Korean words ending with ๊ฒ are adverbs, some of them are prepositions,nouns and pronouns.
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