BEGINNER lesson 10

Basics - Lesson 10 - Numbers and Counting Lesson

In Korean there are two sets of numbers which are used when counting, the first set are known as pure Korean numbers, and the other are Sino-korean which is based on the chinese numerals.

The use of these numbers depends on the context in which it is used, for example the pure korean numbers are used when counting hours, and the sino korean when used to count minutes.

kong	0
il	1		shibil	11		ishibil	21
i	2		shibi	12		ishibi	22
sam	3		shipsam	13		ishipsam	23
sa	4		shipsa	14		ishipsa	24
o	5		shibo	15
yuk	6		shimnyuk	16
ch'il	7		shipch'il	17
p'al	8		shipp'al	18
ku	9		shibku	19		ishipku	29
ship	10		iship	20		samship	30
saship	40
kuship	90
paek	100
ch'on	1000
man	10,000