When it comes to currency/money?

안녕하세요 여러분..


The last time I talked about numbers was here . If you can still recall there are two types of korean numbers, one is native korean numbers another is sino-korean numbers. So which one do we us when it comes to counting our money or when paying the shopkeeper in Korean?

We use Sino-Korean numbers!!!

Well let us refresh our brain with Sino-Korean numbers first before we go detail..

1 - 일
2 - 이
3 - 삼
4 - 사
5 - 오
6 - 육
7 - 칠
8 - 팔
9 - 구
10 - 십
11 - 십일 <10 (십) + 1 (일) = sib il>
12 - 십이
13 - 십삼
14 - 십사
20 - 이십 <2 (이) + 10 (십) = 20 (이십)> You get the idea..
21 - 이십일 <2 (이) + 10 (십) + 1 (일) = 21 (이십일)>
22 - 이십이
23 - 이십삼
24 - 이십사
30 - 삼십 <3(삼) + 10(십) = 30 (삼십) >
40 - 사십
100 - 백
101 - 백일 < 100(백) + 1(일) = 101 (백일)>
102 - 백이
103 - 백삼
104 - 백사
1000 - 천
1001 - 천일
1002 - 천이
1003 - 천삼
2000 - 이천
3000 -삼천
10,000 - 만
10,001 - 만일
10,002 - 만이
20,000 - 이만
30,000 - 삼만
100,000 - 십만 <10(십) + 10,000(만) = 100,000(십만)>
200,000 - 이십만
1 million - 백만

got it??... if theres some part that confuses use, dont hesitate to ask away in the comment box : )

so when you want to say..... maybe 10,490 won.. it would be 만사백구십원..
만(10,000)사백(400)구십(90)원(won)..

So what about 11,500 won???

it would be, 만천오백원... 만천(11,000)오백(500)원


hope that helps... happy new year 2012 : ) 새해 복 많이 받으세요

How old are you? In hangul.

이 고양이 너무 귀엽다. 그 때문에 이 사진이 여기 있어.
[This cat is so cute. Thats why I put this photo here.]
고양이 = Cat
너무 = so/very
귀엽다 = cute
때문에 = Because of
사진 = photo/picture
여기 = Here
있어 = have

So the picture have nothing to do with the title of the entry, but yeah I just think its cute hehe.

Anyway, so how to express our age or to answer the entry title in hangul? 한국어로? [In Korean Langugage?]


"How old are you?" in hangul.....
"연세가 몇이십니까?" or "나이가 얼마입니까?"
both 연세 & 나이 means "age". you can also use..

"나이가 얼마에요?". the meaning is still the same, "How old are you?" except that the former one is the formal way of saying it.

So to answer the question you need to use Native Korean number terms. Okay what is 'native korean number terms'?? You can read the previous post about Korean numbers here.

"I am twenty-four years old".
"저는 스물 네 살이에요"
I put it according to color so you can easily identify which is what.

In native korean number,
20 is 스물. while 4 is 넷. thus 24 is 스물 네.

I'll give you another example.

"I am thirty- five years old"
"저는 서른 다섯 살이에요"

You can check all the korean numbers in my previous post. Korean numbers here.

Korean Numbers..

안녕하세요....

하나, 둘, 셋, 넷 감자 {potato}...

There are two sets of numbers in Korea, the native Korean and the Sino-Korean Numbers. Sino-Korean numbers are borrowed from Chinese, so if you are chinese you'll probably notice the similarities in the pronunciation.

Generally speaking, for expression involving dates, money, foreign loanwords, minutes, seconds and counting beyond 99 Sino-Korean numbers are used otherwise its the native Korean numbers. You might be wondering why some numbers are skipped in both numeral systems, this is because there are certain patterns to achieve the numbers in between.

1st let look at native korean numbers....

Native Korean
11 = 열하나 [yeol-hana] so the formula is 10[열]+1[하나].
31 = 서른하나 [seoleun-hana]
This is the reason why after the number 10 only numbers in multiples of 10 are provided up to 90. So you have to memorize at least 18 numbers in Native Korean.

Sino-Korean
32 = 삼십이 [sam-ship-i] so the formula is 3[삼] X 10 [십] + 2 [이].

If you want to count things or people, you have to include a "classifier". Classifier are put after the number and are similar to english such as a bar(of chocolate), a roll(of film). The most common classifier is 개 [gae] {thing}, but when you count people you need to use either 명 [myeong] {plain} or 분 [bun] {honorific}.

For example...

펜 열여섯 개 [pen yeol-yeoseot gae] {16 ("ten-six") pens}

저는 언니가 세명 있어요. [jeo-neun eonni-ga se-myeong isseoyo] {I have three older sister}

note : the spelling of the numbers one to four changes slightly when a classifier is used,
하나>>한,
돌>>두,
셋>>세,
넷>>네.

next time we'll explore more on numbers in other applications e.g money, dates etc..so be sure to check out for updates..