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This is book #1 for the Korean Language series. Try to understand all of the notes in this book before you proceed to the next one. Good luck ! This book contains Korean grammar. Try to understand it so that you can understand how to make a sentence...

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PURE KOREAN NUMBERS

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These are the pure Korean numbers:
하나 - one
둘 - two
셋 - three
넷 - four
다섯 - five
여섯 - six
일곱 - seven
여덟 - eight
아홉 - nine
열 - ten
스물 - twenty
서른 - thirty
마흔 - forty
쉰 - fifty

Creating numbers 11-19, 21-29, 31-39 (etc..) is easy, and is done like this:

11: 열하나 (10 + 1)
12: 열둘 (10 + 2)
21: 스물하나 (20 + 1)
59: 쉰아홉 (50 + 9)

Notice that there are no spaces between the words representing numbers for both the Sino-Korean and pure Korean numbers. This is true, but only extends so far. I discuss this in a much more difficult lesson that covers how numbers greater than 10,000 are used. For now, it is more important to focus on how to use simple numbers in sentences.

After 60, regardless of what you are doing, pure Korean numbers are rarely used. When you get that high (even as high as 40-50) it is not uncommon to use the Sino-Korean numbers instead.

The pure Korean numbers are used when:

– You are counting things or people or actions
– Talking about the hour in time
– Sometimes used when talking about months.

Again, don't worry about memorizing each of those yet. Whenever I talk about numbers, I will tell you which set you are expected to use.