Korean Adjectives

This page contains a table including the following: Korean Adjectives including colors, size, shapes, tastes, quantities... to help you with your Korean vocabulary and expressions. Try to memorize the way they're used because they're very important in communication, and might be very helpful to convey your most important expressions. Make sure to check our Learn Korean page, which contains several lessons that might help you in your learning process.

The following two tables contain important adjectives about colors, size, shapes, tastes, quantities in Korean as well as in English.

English	Korean Adjectives	Hangul Script

Colors
Black	comdjung sehk	검정색
Blue	pah rahn sehk	파란색
Brown	kal sehk	갈색
Gray	hweh sehk	회색
Green	nok sehk	녹색
Orange	choohwang sehk	주황색
Purple	pohrah sehk	보라색
Red	pahlgahn sehk	빨간색
White	hayahn sehk	하얀색
Yellow	nohrahn sehk	노란색
Sizes
Big	koodaa	크다.
Deep	keehpdaa	깊다.
Long	kildaa	길다.
Narrow	chohpdaa	좁다.
Short (in height)	chahkdaa	작다.
Short (in length)	chalpdaa	짧다.
Small, little	chahkdaa	작다.
Tall	koodaa	크다.
Thick	gooltaa	굵다.
Thin	yaltaa	얇다.
Wide	nultaa	넓다.
Shapes
Round	doonguldaa	둥글다.
Straight	gohtaa	곧다.
Square	sahgahkyung	사각형
Triangular	sahmgahk	삼각

The following table contains important Korean adjectives about directions that you might use when lost.

English	Korean	Hangul Adjectives

Tastes
Bitter	suedaa	쓰다.
Fresh	shinsunhadaa	신선하다.
Salty	chah daa	짜다.
Sour	shi daa	시다.
Spicy	map daa	맵다.
Sweet	dahl daa	달다.
Qualities
Bad	nahpoodaa	나쁘다.
Clean	kehkootahdaa	깨끗하다.
Dark	uhdooptaa	어둡다.
Difficult	uhryuptaa	어렵다.
Dirty	duhruptah	더럽다.
Dry	gundjohadaa	건조하다.
Easy	shipdaa	쉽다.
Empty	pidaa	비다.
Expensive	pisahdaa	비싸다.
Fast	paroodaa	빠르다.
Foreign	wehgookui	외국의
Full	chadaa	차다.
Good	chotaa	좋다.
Hard (firm)	tahn dahn hadaa	단단하다.
Heavy	mooguptaa	무겁다.
Inexpensive	sadaa	싸다.
Light (illumination)	chundeung	전등
Light (weight)	kapyuptaa	가볍다.
Local	chiyuk	지역
New	sehrohwoon	새로운
Noisy	sihkooruhwoon	시끄러운
Old (about things)	ohrehdwehdaa	오래되다.
Old (about people)	naheegah duldaa	나이가 들다.
Powerful	kanghadaa	강하다.
Quiet	choyonghadaa	조용하다.
Right / Correct	mahtsumnidaa	맞습니다.
Slow	chuhn chuhn hee	천천히
Soft	poohdoorupdaa	부드럽다.
Very	ahdjoo	아주
Weak	yahkadaa	약하다.
Wet	chuhtaa	젖다.
Wrong / Incorrect	tuleedaa	틀리다.
Young	chumtaa	젊다.
Quantities
Few / Little	chokum	조금
Many / Much	mahnee	많이
Part	pooboon	부분
Some / A few	chokumui	조금의
Whole	chuncheh	전체

I hope the content of this page was useful to you, and that you learned some Korean Adjectives, including colors, size, shapes, tastes, quantities... Try to memorize them to be able to use them in your daily conversation. Make sure to check our Learn Korean page, which contains several lessons that might help you in your learning process.