Every greetings and phrases word on the TOPIK lists with its romanization and meaning, the beginner ones in a real sentence. Filter it, flip it into flashcards, or carry it on your Lock Screen with Lock&Learn Korean.
Greetings and set phrases in Korean: hello and goodbye, thank you and sorry, please, yes and no, and the social phrases that make a first conversation work, from the TOPIK vocabulary lists with readings and meanings.
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| Hangul | Romanization | Meaning | Level | Example |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ๊ทธ๋ | geurae | That's right (agreement) | TOPIK I | ๊ฐ: ์ค๋ ๋ ์จ๊ฐ ์ฐธ ์ข๋ค์. ๋: ๊ทธ๋์, ๋ง์์.Ga: oneul nalssiga cham jonneyo. na: geuraeyo, majayo.A: The weather is really nice today. B: That's right, you're right. |
| ๊ทธ๋ผ | geureom | sure / of course | TOPIK I | A: ๋ด์ผ ๊ฐ๊น์? B: ๊ทธ๋ผ์.A: naeil galkkayo? B: geureomyo.A: Shall we go tomorrow? B: Sure. |
| ๊ด์ฐฎ๋ค | gwaenchanta | to be okay/fine | TOPIK I | ์๋์, ๊ด์ฐฎ์์.Aniyo, gwaenchanayo.No, I am okay. |
| ์๋ | ani | no or not | TOPIK I | ์๋์, ์ ๊ฐ์.Aniyo, an gayo.No, I'm not going. |
| ์ผ | ya | hey | TOPIK I | ์ผ, ์ฌ๊ธฐ ์ข ๋ด!Ya, yeogi jom bwa!Hey, look here! |
| ๊ณ ๋ง๋ค | gomapda | to be thankful / to thank (someone) | TOPIK I | ๋์์ค์ ๊ณ ๋ง์์.Dowajwoseo gomawoyo.I am thankful that you helped me. |
| ์ | eung | yes or yeah | TOPIK I | ์, ๋ ์ง๊ธ ํ๊ต ๊ฐ.Eung, na jigeum hakgyo ga.Yeah, I'm going to school now. |
| ๋ฏธ์ํ๋ค | mianhada | to be sorry | TOPIK I | ์ ๋ง ๋ฏธ์ํด์.Jeongmal mianhaeyo.I am really sorry. |
| ์ธ์ฌ | insa | greeting | TOPIK I | ์ ์๋๊ป ์ธ์ฌ๋ฅผ ํด์.Seonsaengnimkke insareul haeyo.I greet the teacher. |
| ์ด์ | eoseo | come in / welcome (lit. come quickly) | TOPIK I | ์ด์ ์ค์ธ์.Eoseo oseyo.Welcome. |
| ๋ฐ๊ฐ๋ค | bangapda | to be glad | TOPIK I | |
| ๊ธ์ | geulsse | well let me see | TOPIK I | |
| ์๋ ํ๋ค | annyeonghada | to be at peace, to be well; hello | TOPIK I | |
| ์ค๋๋ง | oraenman | long time no see; after a long time | TOPIK I | |
| ์๋์ | aniyo | no (formal/polite) | TOPIK I | |
| ์ฃ์กํ๋ค | joesonghada | to be sorry | TOPIK I | |
| ์ฌ๋ณด์ธ์ | yeoboseyo | hello on phone | TOPIK I | |
| ์ธ์ฌํ๋ค | insahada | to greet someone | TOPIK I | |
| ๊ธ์์ | geulsseyo | let me see | TOPIK I | |
| ์๋ ํ | annyeonghi | peacefully / safely (used as an adverb) | TOPIK I | |
| ์ถํํ๋ค | chukhahada | to congratulate | TOPIK I | |
| ๊ฐ์ฌํ๋ค | gamsahada | to be thankful | TOPIK I | |
| ์ถํ | chukha | congratulation / celebration | TOPIK I | |
| ์ค๋๊ฐ๋ง | oraeganman | after a long time | TOPIK I | |
| ๊ฐ์ฌ | gamsa | thanks, gratitude | TOPIK I | |
| ์ค๋ก | silrye | excuse me / rudeness | TOPIK I | |
| ์๋ | annyeong | hello or goodbye | TOPIK I | |
| ํ์ | hwanyeong | welcome | TOPIK I | |
| ์ค๋กํ๋ค | silryehada | to excuse oneself (polite) | TOPIK I | |
| ๋ฏธ์ | mian | sorry | TOPIK I |
Word lists: the National Institute of Korean Language (NIKL) learner vocabulary and the 2015 TOPIK vocabulary list, as compiled in combined_korean_vocabulary_list. English senses adapted from Kengdic by Joe Speigle (MPL 2.0). Revised Romanization is generated; example sentences are original Lock&Learn content.
The 30 greetings and phrases below come from the TOPIK vocabulary lists with their readings and meanings. The beginner-level ones come with a real sentence.
30 from TOPIK I. The level chip on each row says where the word sits, so you can stop at your level or read ahead. Beginner-level words carry a real example sentence; the rest show word, romanization and meaning, with their sentences in the app.
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