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The 100 Most Common Adverbs in Korean

by Nie Ae // May 4 // 0 Comments

์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์„ธ์š”! 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.

Most Common Adverbs in Korean

Adverbs / ๋ถ€์‚ฌ [ Boosa]

  • Generally, this part of speech has the role of modifying verbs, adjectives, clauses, sentences and other adverbs.
  • Just like English language, Korean also has different types of adverbs. There are adverbs of manners, time, place, frequency, levels and other more.
  • As English adverbs usually are words that end with (ly), Korean adverbs have words of adjective+๊ฒŒ, adverbs +ํžˆ and noun or derivative +(์ )์œผ๋กœ.
  • However, there are also adverbs words on their original forms, which means no suffixes are used nor changes on their word structure.
  • Some words are changed from nouns, pronouns, verbs and even prepositions to be used as adverbs.

Adverbs of manner / ์–‘ํƒœ ๋ถ€์‚ฌ [yangtae boosa]

  • Some are adjective words that become adverbs upon changing their last syllable from ๋‹ค to ๊ฒŒ.
    (์‰ฝ๋‹ค - ๋‹ค = ์‰ฝ + ๊ฒŒ = ์‰ฝ๊ฒŒ)[ swipta - ta = swip + ge = swipge] which means
    (easy - y + ily = easily) in English.
  • Some are adjective words that become adverbs upon changing their last syllable from ๋‹ค to ๊ฒŒ.
    (์‰ฝ๋‹ค - ๋‹ค = ์‰ฝ + ๊ฒŒ = ์‰ฝ๊ฒŒ)[ swipta - ta = swip + ge = swipge] which means
    (easy - y + ily = easily) in English.
ํ•œ๊ธ€PronunciationTranslation
์ข‹๋‹ค - ์ข‹๊ฒŒJohta - johkeGood- well
๋‚˜์˜๋‹ค - ๋‚˜์˜๊ฒŒNapeuda - napuegeBad - badly
๊ท€์—ฝ๋‹ค - ๊ท€์—ฝ๊ฒŒKweyeopta - kweyeopkeCute - cutely
์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ต๋‹ค - ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ต๊ฒŒAruemdapta- aruemdapkeBeautiful - beautifully
๋น„์‹ธ๋‹ค - ๋น„์‹ธ๊ฒŒBissada - bissageExpensive - expensively
์‹ธ๋‹ค - ์‹ธ๊ฒŒSsada - ssageCheap - cheaply
๋ฉ‹์ง€๋‹ค - ๋ฉ‹์ง€๊ฒŒMeotjida - meotjigeAwesome - awesomely
๊ฐ•ํ•˜๋‹ค - ๊ฐ•ํ•˜๊ฒŒGanghada - ganghageStrong - strongly
์•ฝํ•˜๋‹ค - ์•ฝํ•˜๊ฒŒYakhada - yakhageWeak - weakly
๋ง›์žˆ๋‹ค - ๋ง›์žˆ๊ฒŒMashita - mashikeDelicious - deliciously
ํฌ๋‹ค - ํฌ๊ฒŒKeuda - keugeLarge - largely
๊ธธ๋‹ค - ๊ธธ๊ฒŒKilda - kilgeLong - lengthily
์งง๋‹ค - ์งง๊ฒŒDzabta - dzabgeShort- shortly
๋„“๋‹ค - ๋„“๊ฒŒNeolbta - neolbgeWide - widely
์ž‘๋‹ค - ์ž‘๊ฒŒJakta - jakgeSmall - little
๋ฐ๋‹ค - ๋ฐ๊ฒŒBalkta - balkgeBright- brightly
์–ด๋‘ก๋‹ค- ์–ด๋‘ก๊ฒŒEodoopta - eodoopgeDark- darkly
๋‘ฅ๊ธ€๋‹ค - ๋‘ฅ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒDonggeulda - donggeureokeRound - roundly
ํ‰ํ‰ํ•˜๋‹ค - ํ‰ํ‰ํ•˜๊ฒŒPyeongpyeonghada - pyeongpyeonghageFlat - flatly
๋˜‘๋ฐ”๋ฅด๋‹ค - ๋˜‘๋ฐ”๋ฅด๊ฒŒTtokbareuda - ttokbareugeStraight - straightly
ํ–‰๋ณตํ•˜๋‹ค - ํ–‰๋ณตํ•˜๊ฒŒHaengbokhada - haengbokhageHappy- happily
ํ”ผ๊ณคํ•˜๋‹ค - ํ”ผ๊ณคํ•˜๊ฒŒPigonhada - pigonhageTired- tiredly
ํฅ๋ถ„ํ•˜๋‹ค - ํฅ๋ถ„ํ•˜๊ฒŒHeungbonhada - heungbonhageExcited - excitedly
ํ›Œ๋ฅญํ•˜๋‹ค - ํ›Œ๋ฅญํ•˜๊ฒŒHoolyoonghada - hoolyoonghageWonderful - wonderfully
์นœ์ ˆํ•˜๋‹ค - ์นœ์ ˆํ•˜๊ฒŒChinjeorhada - chinjeorhagePolite - politely
๊ธฐ์˜๋‹ค - ๊ธฐ์˜๊ฒŒKipeuda - kipeugeGlad - gladly
์Šฌํ”„๋‹ค - ์Šฌํ”„๊ฒŒSeulpeuda - seulpeugeSad - sadly
์ข‹๋‹ค - ์ข‹๊ฒŒJohta- johkeGood - well
๋ฏผ๊ฐํ•˜๋‹ค - ๋ฏผ๊ฐํ•˜๊ฒŒMingamhada - mingamhageSensitive - sensitively
ํ™”๋‚˜๋‹ค - ํ™”๋‚˜๊ฒŒHwanada - hwanageAngry - angrily
  • Some are noun words ending with ํ•˜๋‹ค changed to ํžˆ to become adverbs
    (์™„์ „ํ•˜๋‹ค - ํ•˜๋‹ค = ์™„์ „ + ํžˆ = ์™„์ „ํžˆ/ wanjeonhada - hada + hi = wanjeonhi)
    Which in English is complete + ly = completely
  • While some are adjective words - the last 2 syllables to ํžˆ to become an adverb.
    (๋Œ€๋‹จํ•˜๋‹ค - ํ•˜๋‹ค = ๋Œ€๋‹จ + ํžˆ = ๋Œ€๋‹จํžˆ ) (dedanhada - hada = dedan + hi = dedanhi)
    [great + ly = greatly]
ํ•œ๊ธ€PronunciationTranslation
์™„์ „ํ•˜๋‹ค - ์™„์ „ํžˆWanjeonhada - wanjeonhiComplete - completely
์†”์งํ•˜๋‹ค - ์†”์งํžˆSoljikhada - soljikhageHonest - honestly
๋ถ„๋ช…ํ•˜๋‹ค - ๋ถ„๋ช…ํžˆBoonmyeonhada - boonmyeonghageObvious - obviously
์šฐ์—ฐํ•˜๋‹ค - ์šฐ์—ฐํžˆWooyeonhada - wooyeonhageCoincidental - coincidentally
ํ™•์‹คํ•˜๋‹ค - ํ™•์‹คํžˆHwakshilhada - hwakshilhageSure - surely
์ •ํ™•ํ•˜๋‹ค - ์ •ํ™•ํžˆJeonghwakhada - jeonghwakhageExact - exactly
๊ฐ„๋‹จํ•˜๋‹ค - ๊ฐ„๋‹จํžˆKantanhada - kantanhageSimple - simply
์ƒ๋‹นํ•˜๋‹ค - ์ƒ๋‹นํžˆSangdanghada - sangdanghageConsiderable - considerably
์ฒœ์ฒœํžˆcheoncheonhislowly
์—ด์‹ฌํžˆYeolshimhizealously

*Please note that the last two examples differ from the others as they donโ€™t have ํ•˜๋‹ค and their root word is at it is.
*Adverbs from noun words ending with ์ ์œผ๋กœ and ์œผ๋กœ / jeogeuro and euro.

ํ•œ๊ธ€PronunciationTranslation
์ผ๋ฐ˜ - ์ผ๋ฐ˜์ ์œผ๋กœilban- ilbanjeogeuroCommon- commonly
๊ธฐ๋ณธ - ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ ์œผ๋กœGibon - gibonjeogeuroStandard - standardly
๊ธฐ์  - ๊ธฐ์ ์ ์œผ๋กœGijeok - gijeokjeogeuroMiracle- miraculously
๊ณต์‹ - ๊ณต์‹์ ์œผ๋กœGongshik - gongshikjeogeuroOfficial - officially
์˜๋„ - ์˜๋„์ ์œผ๋กœEuydo -euydojeogeuroIntention - intentionally
์ž๋™ - ์ž๋™์œผ๋กœJagong - jadong euroAutomatic - automatically
์ˆ˜๋™ - ์ˆ˜๋™์œผ๋กœSoodong- soodong euroManual - manually
์‚ฌ์  - ์‚ฌ์ ์œผ๋กœSajeok - sajeogeuroPersonal - personally
์ „์  - ์ „์ ์œผ๋กœJeonjeog - jeonjeogeuroWhole - wholly
์งˆ์  - ์งˆ์ ์œผ๋กœJiljeog- jiljeogeuroQualitative - qualitatively

Adverbs of time / ์‹œ๊ฐ„ ๋ถ€์‚ฌ [ shigan boosa]

ํ•œ๊ธ€PronunciationTranslation
์˜ค๋Š˜oneultoday
์–ด์ œeojeyesterday
๋‚ด์ผneyltomorrow
์ง€๊ธˆjogeumnow
๋‚˜์ค‘์—najoongyelater/ after a while
์˜ค๋Š˜ ๋ฐคOneul bamtonight
๋งค์ผmeylEveryday / daily
์ฃผ๊ฐ„JooganEvery week / weekly
๋งค๋…„menyeonEvery year / yearly
๋งˆ์นจ๋„คmachimnefinally
๊ณงgwotsoon
์ „์—jeonebefore
ํ›„์—hooweafter
์ด๋ฏธimialready
์•„์งajikyet

Adverbs of place / ์žฅ์†Œ ๋ถ€์‚ฌ [ jangso boosa]

  • These are preposition words + ์— = adverbs
    (์ง‘ + ์— = ์ง‘์— / [jib + e = jibe]) we translate it to English as at home.
  • Korean term ์— can be in, out, on, at or to when translated to English. But please be reminded that not all of them are just adverbs. Because some of them are suffixes of different use.
ํ•œ๊ธ€PronunciationTranslation
์•ˆ์—aneinside
๋ฐ–์—bakkeoutside
์—ฌ๊ฒŒyeogehere
์ €๊ฒŒjeogethat
๊ฑฐ๊ฒŒgeogethere
์œ„์—wiyeabove
๋ฐ‘์—mittebelow
์•ž์—apeIn front
๋’ค์—dwiyeAt the back
์‹ค๋„คshilneindoor
์•ผ์™ธyaweoutdoor
๊นŒ๊นŒ์—kakayenear
๋ฉ€์—meolefar
์œ„์ฉwidzeokleft
์˜ค๋ฅธ์ฉoreundzeokright

Adverbs of frequency / ๋นˆ๋„ ๋ถ€์‚ฌ [ bindo boosa]

ํ•œ๊ธ€PronunciationTranslation
ํ•ญ์ƒhangsangalways
๊นŒ๋”kakeumsometimes
์ž์ฃผjajoooften
ํ•œ๋ฒˆ์”ฉhanbeonshikOnce in a while
์ ˆ๋Œ€jeoltenever
๋•Œ๋•Œ๋กœttetterooccasionally
๊ทœ์น™์ ์œผ๋กœkyoochikjeogeuroregularly
๋ณดํ†ต์œผ๋กœBotong euronormally
์Šต๊ด€์ ์œผ๋กœseupgwanjeogeurohabitually
๋“œ๋ฌผ๊ฒŒdeumoolgerarely

Adverbs in never changing forms

ํ•œ๊ธ€PronunciationTranslation
๊ฝคkkwequite
๋งŽ์ดmanhiplenty
์•„์ฃผajoovery
์ผ๋ถ€๋Ÿฌilbooreointentionally
ํ•จ๋ถ€๋กœhamboorothoughtlessly
๊ผญkkokmust
๋ฐ˜๋“œ์‹œbandeushiAt all cost
๊ฐ‘์ž๊ธฐgapjagisuddenly
ํ‹€๋ฆผ ์—†์ดTeulim eopshicertainly
๋ฐ”๋กœbaroimmediately

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 ๊ฒŒ are adverbs, some of them are prepositions,nouns and pronouns.

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About the Author Nie Ae

Nie Ae is a Filipina by blood but is now bearing a Korean citizenship and residing in South Korea. She is a Christian missionary, writer, translator, and more than 10 years ESL teacher to Korean nationals.