Korean Native Numbers Continued

Posted by Ginny

20 - sumul (스물)

30 - surun (서른)

40 - mahun (마흔)

50 - shwin ()

60 - yesun (예순)

70 - ilhun (일흔)

80 - yodun (여든)

90 - ahun (아흔)

100 - bek ()

One thing I want to point out is that numbers ending in 1, 2, 3, or 4 will be shortened when a counter follows the number. For example, 11 cars will be yol han de (열한 대) instead of yol hana de.

Here are the shortened forms:

hana (하나) = han ()

dul () = du ()

set () = se ()

net () = ne ()

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2 Comments

  • owbEe commented on July 21, 2009 at 3:54 pm |Permalink

    How about 22 years old? How do we say it in Korean?

  • Ginny commented on August 24, 2009 at 11:27 am |Permalink

    Well there are two ways to say it:
    you can use the native korean numbers and the counter 살 and the sino korean numbers using the counter 세.

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