BASIC KOREAN LANGUAGE

Lesson 17 : Korean Date

Annyeong!

Last posts was all about time, it's going to be dates this time around. During my first few days of posting, I was really aiming for Hangul lesson a day... admittedly I couldn't keep up with a daily posting due to an equally important thing –my studies.

Anyway, Let's start learning how to count years and months first..

☆ COUNTING YEARS ☆

Both Native and Sino-Korean numbers can be used to count years, the only difference is the marker.

For Native Korean numbers it is followed by the marker 해 (hae) and for Sino-Korean number it's 년 (nyon).

So to say 2 years in Korean one may be able to hear 두해 (du hae) or 이년 (inyon).

However, it's more common to hear counting of years using the Sino-Korean numbers rather than the native ones when its more than 2 years.

To say 2017...

▶ (2000) + (17) + 년

▶ ichon + sipchil + nyon

▶ 이천 + 십칠 + 년

✔ 2017 = ichonsipchilnyon (이천십칠년)

☆ COUNTING MONTHS ☆

Months can be counted with either Native Korean or Sino-Korean numerals. Months(in duration) can be counted in Korean using 달 (dal, native) or 개월 (gae wol, Sino-Korean) as marker. So one month can be expressed as 한 달 (han dal) or 일 개월 (il gaewol).

In talking about months as in January, February March etc, knowing how to count 1 to 12 in Sino-Korean plus the constant marker 월 (wol) followed by optionally pronounced marker 달 (dal) is the key. In a mathematical expression the formula is

  <Sino-Korean Number>+ 월 + 달>

Below are the months in Korea, 달 is enclosed in parenthesis indicating it's optionally pronounced:

●일월 (달) – ilwol (dal), January

●이월 (달) – iwol (dal), February

●삼월(달) – samwol (dal),March

●사월 (달) – sawol (dal), April

●오월 (달) – owol (dal), May

●유월 (달) – yuwol (dal), June*

●칠월 (달) – chilwol (dal), July

●팔월 (달)– palwol (dal), August

●구월(달)–guwol(dal), September

●시월(달)– shiwol (dal), October*

●십일월 (달)–shipilwol(dal), November

●십이월 (달)– shipiwol (dal), December

There are two exceptions, June and October. Rather than 육월 and 십월, 유월 and 시월 are used for pronunciation purposes.

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Now that we know how to count years and months...let's now learn how to say Dates in Korean.

The format of Korean dates is (Year-Month-Day).

This is opposite how dates are relayed in English.

Korean dates use the Sino Korean numbering system (il, i, sam, sa, etc.) rather than the native Korean numbering system.

There are two ways to write it, the shorthand and the longhand way.

▶  To write 2017,February 10

Shorthand:

year number+년 month number+월 day number+일

• Today would be 2017년2월10일.

The longer way to write it would be to write out the numbers.

• Today: 이천십칠년이월십일

Pronounce as → ichonsipchilnyon iwol sipil

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Kyaahh!I hope you understand my explainations ㅋㅋㅋ 

By the way...thank you very much for reading and trusting this book :D Feel free to correct me if I have any mistakes.

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