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In today's lesson, we will learn some basic Korean vocabulary related to animals. __TOC__


==Main Terms==
Hi [https://polyglotclub.com/language/korean Korean] learners! ๐Ÿ˜Š<br>In this lesson, we will learn about animals in Korean. Animals have always been an important part of Korean culture, appearing in many traditional folk tales, songs, and artwork. Knowing the names of animals in Korean can also help you to communicate better with native speakers who may want to discuss pets or wildlife.
Below is a table of 15 words related to animals in Korean with their pronunciation and translation in English. ย 
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__TOC__
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==Basic Vocabulary==
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Let's start with some basic animal names in Korean. Pronunciation notes for each word will be indicated with the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) in square brackets, followed by a transliteration in parentheses, and finally the English translation. ย 


{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable"
!Korean !! Pronunciation !! English
|-
|-
! Word in Korean !! Pronunciation !! Translation in English
|๊ฐœ (gae) || [ษกษ›]ย  || dog
|-
|-
| ๊ฐœ ||gae || dog
|๊ณ ์–‘์ด (goyang-i) || [ko.jaล‹.i] || cat
|-
|-
| ๊ณ ์–‘์ด ||goyang-i || cat
|์ƒˆ (sae) || [sษ›] || bird
|-
|-
| ์†Œ ||so || cow
|์†Œ (so) || [so] || cow
|-
|-
| ๋ง ||mal || horse
|๋‚˜๋ฌด๋Š˜๋ณด (namu-neul-bo) || [namu.nษฏl.bo] || sloth
|-
|-
| ๋ผ์ง€ ||dwaeji || pig
|์ฝ”๋ผ๋ฆฌ (kokkiri) || [ko.kอˆi.ษพi] || elephant
|-
|-
| ๋‹ญ ||dak || chicken
|์‚ฌ์Šด (saseum) || [sa.sษฏm] || deer
|-
|๊ณ ๋ฆด๋ผ (gorilla) || [ko.ษพi.ษพa] || gorilla
|-
|์›์ˆญ์ด (won-sung-i) || [wสŒn.sสŠล‹.i] || monkey
|}
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In Korea, pets are becoming increasingly popular. To talk about your own pet, use the word ์• ์™„๋™๋ฌผ (aewan-dongmul), which means "pet."
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*๋…ธ๋ž‘์ด (norangi) - yellow cat
**Person 1: ๋…ธ๋ž‘์ด๊ฐ€ ๊ท€์—ฝ๋„ค. (Norangi-ga gwi-yeopne.) (The yellow cat is cute.)
**Person 2: ๋งž์•„์š”? (Maja-yo?) (Really?)
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*Korean people also have a deep respect for nature and animals. For example, the white tiger is considered a sacred animal in Korean mythology. Tigers in general are believed to have the power to ward off evil spirits.
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==Useful Vocabulary==
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Here are some additional animal-related vocabulary in Korean that you may find useful:
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{| class="wikitable"
!Korean !! Pronunciation !! English
|-
|-
| ์–‘ ||yang || sheep
|ํŽญ๊ท„ (peng-gwin) || [pสฐษ›ล‹.ษกษพin] || penguin
|-
|-
| ๋‹น๋‚˜๊ท€ ||dang-na-gui || donkey
|์ง„๋“œ๊ธฐ (jin-deugi) || [tอˆสƒin.dษฏ.ษกi] || tick
|-
|-
| ํ† ๋ผ ||tokki || rabbit
|๋น„๋‘˜๊ธฐ (bidulgi) || [pi.dul.ษกi] || pigeon
|-
|-
| ์‚ฌ์Šด ||saseum || deer
|ํ•˜์ด์—๋‚˜ (hai-ena) || [hai.eษดa] || hyena
|-
|-
| ์—ฌ์šฐ ||yeou || fox
|์•ต๋ฌด์ƒˆ (aeng-musa-e) || [ษ›ล‹.mu.sษ›] || parrot
|-
|-
| ์กฐ๋ฅ˜ ||joryu || bird
|๋ผ์ง€ (dwaeji) || [dwษ›.สฅi] || pig
|-
|-
| ๊ฑฐ๋ถ์ด ||geobugi || turtle
|ํ† ๋ผ (tokki) || [to.kอˆi] || rabbit
|-
|-
| ๋ฑ€ ||baem || snake
|์ฅ (jwi) || [tอˆษ•ษฅi] || mouse
|-
|-
| ์ƒ์–ด ||sangeo || shark
|๋ฐ”๋‹ค์‚ฌ์ž (bada-saja) || [pada.sadส‘a] || sea lion
|}
|}


==Useful Phrases==
When talking about an animal in plural, simply add the suffix -๋“ค (-deul) to the noun. For example, ๊ฐœ๋“ค (gaedeul) means "dogs" in Korean.
Here are some useful phrases using the words above:
ย 
*Person 1:ย  ๋ช‡ ๋งˆ๋ฆฌ ๋ผ์ง€๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์–ด์š”? (Myeot mari dwaejiga isseoyo?) (How many pigs do you have?)
**Person 2: ๋„ค, ์„ธ ๋งˆ๋ฆฌ ์žˆ์–ด์š”. (Ne, se mari isseoyo.) (I have three.)


* ๊ฐœ๊ฐ€ ์ข‹์•„ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋ฌด์—‡์ž…๋‹ˆ๊นŒ? (gae-ga jo-ahaneun geos-eun mueos-imnikka?) โ€“ What does a dog like?
*In Korean, you can also use onomatopoeic words to describe animal sounds. Here are a few examples:
* ๋ผ์ง€๋Š” ๋จน๊ณ  ์ž๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ข‹์•„ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (dwaeji-neun meokgo janeun geos-eul jo-ahabnida.) โ€“ Pigs like to eat and sleep.
* ์—ฌ์šฐ๋Š” ๋ฐค์— ๋‚˜๊ฐ€์„œ ์‚ฌ๋ƒฅ์„ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (yeou-neun bam-e nagaseo sanyang-eul habnida.) โ€“ Foxes go out at night to hunt.
* ์†Œ๋Š” ๋ชฉ์žฅ์—์„œ ์‚ฌ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ข‹์•„ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (so-neun mokjang-eseo saneun geos-eul jo-ahabnida.) โ€“ Cows like to live in a barn.
* ๋‹ญ์€ ๋ฐค์— ์ž ์„ ์ž๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ข‹์•„ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (dak-eun bam-e jam-eul janeun geos-eul jo-ahabnida.) โ€“ Chickens like to sleep at night.
* ๊ณ ์–‘์ด๋Š” ๋‚ฎ์— ์‰ฌ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ข‹์•„ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (goyang-i-neun naj-e swineun geos-eul jo-ahabnida.) โ€“ Cats like to rest during the day.
* ๋ฑ€์€ ๋ฐค์— ๋จน์ด๋ฅผ ์ฐพ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ข‹์•„ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (baem-eun bam-e meogi-reul chatneun geos-eul jo-ahabnida.) โ€“ Snakes like to look for food at night.
* ์กฐ๋ฅ˜๋Š” ๋‚ ๊ฐœ๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ๋‚ ์•„๋‹ค๋‹™๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (joryu-neun nalgae-reul sayong-hayeo nal-ada-pinida.) โ€“ Birds use their wings to fly.
* ํ† ๋ผ๋Š” ๋ฐค์— ๋›ฐ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ข‹์•„ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (tokki-neun bam-e ttwineun geos-eul jo-ahabnida.) โ€“ Rabbits like to run at night.
* ๋ง์€ ๋งํƒ€๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ข‹์•„ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (mal-eun maltagi-reul haneun geos-eul jo-ahabnida.) โ€“ Horses like to ride.
* ์ƒ์–ด๋Š” ๋ฐ”๋‹ค์—์„œ ์‚ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (sangeo-neun bada-eseo salgo itseumnida.) โ€“ Sharks live in the sea.
* ์–‘์€ ์ดˆ์›์—์„œ ์‚ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (yang-eun chowon-eseo salgo itseumnida.) โ€“ Sheep live in the meadow.
* ๋‹น๋‚˜๊ท€๋Š” ๋†์žฅ์—์„œ ์‚ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (dang-na-gui-neun nongjang-eseo salgo itseumnida.) โ€“ Donkeys live in the farm.
* ๊ฑฐ๋ถ์ด๋Š” ๋ฌผ์—์„œ ์‚ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (geobugi-neun mure-eseo salgo itseumnida.) โ€“ Turtles live in the water.


{| class="wikitable"
!Korean !! Pronunciation !! English
|-
|๋ฉ๋ฉ (meong-meong) || [mสŒล‹.mสŒล‹] || woof (dog)
|-
|๋ฌผ๋ ๋ฌผ๋  (mul-leong-mul-leong) || [mul.lสŒล‹.mul.lสŒล‹] || slosh (fish)
|-
|๋ฏธ์œ ๋ฏธ์œ  (mi-yu-mi-yu) || [mi.ju.mi.ju] || meow (cat)
|-
|๊พน๊พน (kkuk-kkuk) || [kอˆukฬš.kอˆukฬš] || ribbit (frog)
|-
|์ชผ๋ผ๋ฆฌ (jjo-kkiri) || [tอˆษ•o.kอˆi.ษพi] || chirp (bird)
|}


==Related Lessons==
*Person 1: ๊ทธ ์ƒˆ๊ฐ€ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์šธ๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์š”? (Geu saega eoddeohge ulgo isseoyo?) (What sound is that bird making?)
* [[Language/Korean/Vocabulary/Colors|Colors]]
**Person 2: ์ชผ๋ผ๋ฆฌ ์ชผ๋ผ๋ฆฌ ์šธ๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์š”. (Jjo-kkiri jjo-kkiri ulgo isseoyo.) (It's making a chirping sound.)
* [[Language/Korean/Vocabulary/Food|Food]]
* [[Language/Korean/Vocabulary/Feelings-and-Emotions|Feelings and Emotions]]
* [[Language/Korean/Vocabulary/Animal|Animal]]
* [[Language/Korean/Vocabulary/Days-of-the-Week|Days of the Week]]
* [[Language/Korean/Vocabulary/How-to-Say-Hello-and-Greetings|How to Say Hello and Greetings]]
* [[Language/Korean/Vocabulary/Body|Body]]
* [[Language/Korean/Vocabulary/Fruits|Fruits]]
* [[Language/Korean/Vocabulary/Drinks|Drinks]]


==Videos==
==Fun Fact==


===Animal (๋™๋ฌผ) Names in Korean - Korean Vocabulary - YouTube===
In Korea, dogs have an interesting cultural significance. The Korean Jindo breed of dog, which originated on the island of Jindo, is known for its loyalty and bravery. They are often used as hunting and guard dogs, and are considered a national treasure. There is even a Korean folk tale about a Jindo dog who saved his village from a tiger!
<youtube>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIf0ohOjH84</youtube>


===Learn Korean - Farm Animals Vocabulary - YouTube===
To summarize, learning the names of animals in Korean can help you to communicate better with native speakers and understand more about Korean culture. If you want to practice your Korean skills, consider using the [https://polyglotclub.com/find-friends.php?search=send&d=0&f=36&offre1=70 Polyglot Club] to find native speakers and ask them any [https://polyglotclub.com/language/korean/question questions]. You can also visit the [[:Category:Language/Korean|Korean vocabulary]] page to learn more words and phrases!
<youtube>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwS3xq4cLns</youtube>


===Sea Animals in Korean - Korean Vocabulary with Pictures - YouTube===
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===ANIMALS IN KOREAN ๋™๋ฌผ - Korean Vocabulary AJ PAKNERS ...===
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Korean Vocabulary - Animals

Hi Korean learners! ๐Ÿ˜Š
In this lesson, we will learn about animals in Korean. Animals have always been an important part of Korean culture, appearing in many traditional folk tales, songs, and artwork. Knowing the names of animals in Korean can also help you to communicate better with native speakers who may want to discuss pets or wildlife.

Basic Vocabulary

Let's start with some basic animal names in Korean. Pronunciation notes for each word will be indicated with the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) in square brackets, followed by a transliteration in parentheses, and finally the English translation.

Korean Pronunciation English
๊ฐœ (gae) [ษกษ›] dog
๊ณ ์–‘์ด (goyang-i) [ko.jaล‹.i] cat
์ƒˆ (sae) [sษ›] bird
์†Œ (so) [so] cow
๋‚˜๋ฌด๋Š˜๋ณด (namu-neul-bo) [namu.nษฏl.bo] sloth
์ฝ”๋ผ๋ฆฌ (kokkiri) [ko.kอˆi.ษพi] elephant
์‚ฌ์Šด (saseum) [sa.sษฏm] deer
๊ณ ๋ฆด๋ผ (gorilla) [ko.ษพi.ษพa] gorilla
์›์ˆญ์ด (won-sung-i) [wสŒn.sสŠล‹.i] monkey

In Korea, pets are becoming increasingly popular. To talk about your own pet, use the word ์• ์™„๋™๋ฌผ (aewan-dongmul), which means "pet."

  • ๋…ธ๋ž‘์ด (norangi) - yellow cat
    • Person 1: ๋…ธ๋ž‘์ด๊ฐ€ ๊ท€์—ฝ๋„ค. (Norangi-ga gwi-yeopne.) (The yellow cat is cute.)
    • Person 2: ๋งž์•„์š”? (Maja-yo?) (Really?)
  • Korean people also have a deep respect for nature and animals. For example, the white tiger is considered a sacred animal in Korean mythology. Tigers in general are believed to have the power to ward off evil spirits.

Useful Vocabulary

Here are some additional animal-related vocabulary in Korean that you may find useful:

Korean Pronunciation English
ํŽญ๊ท„ (peng-gwin) [pสฐษ›ล‹.ษกษพin] penguin
์ง„๋“œ๊ธฐ (jin-deugi) [tอˆสƒin.dษฏ.ษกi] tick
๋น„๋‘˜๊ธฐ (bidulgi) [pi.dul.ษกi] pigeon
ํ•˜์ด์—๋‚˜ (hai-ena) [hai.eษดa] hyena
์•ต๋ฌด์ƒˆ (aeng-musa-e) [ษ›ล‹.mu.sษ›] parrot
๋ผ์ง€ (dwaeji) [dwษ›.สฅi] pig
ํ† ๋ผ (tokki) [to.kอˆi] rabbit
์ฅ (jwi) [tอˆษ•ษฅi] mouse
๋ฐ”๋‹ค์‚ฌ์ž (bada-saja) [pada.sadส‘a] sea lion

When talking about an animal in plural, simply add the suffix -๋“ค (-deul) to the noun. For example, ๊ฐœ๋“ค (gaedeul) means "dogs" in Korean.

  • Person 1: ๋ช‡ ๋งˆ๋ฆฌ ๋ผ์ง€๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์–ด์š”? (Myeot mari dwaejiga isseoyo?) (How many pigs do you have?)
    • Person 2: ๋„ค, ์„ธ ๋งˆ๋ฆฌ ์žˆ์–ด์š”. (Ne, se mari isseoyo.) (I have three.)
  • In Korean, you can also use onomatopoeic words to describe animal sounds. Here are a few examples:
Korean Pronunciation English
๋ฉ๋ฉ (meong-meong) [mสŒล‹.mสŒล‹] woof (dog)
๋ฌผ๋ ๋ฌผ๋  (mul-leong-mul-leong) [mul.lสŒล‹.mul.lสŒล‹] slosh (fish)
๋ฏธ์œ ๋ฏธ์œ  (mi-yu-mi-yu) [mi.ju.mi.ju] meow (cat)
๊พน๊พน (kkuk-kkuk) [kอˆukฬš.kอˆukฬš] ribbit (frog)
์ชผ๋ผ๋ฆฌ (jjo-kkiri) [tอˆษ•o.kอˆi.ษพi] chirp (bird)
  • Person 1: ๊ทธ ์ƒˆ๊ฐ€ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์šธ๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์š”? (Geu saega eoddeohge ulgo isseoyo?) (What sound is that bird making?)
    • Person 2: ์ชผ๋ผ๋ฆฌ ์ชผ๋ผ๋ฆฌ ์šธ๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์š”. (Jjo-kkiri jjo-kkiri ulgo isseoyo.) (It's making a chirping sound.)

Fun Fact

In Korea, dogs have an interesting cultural significance. The Korean Jindo breed of dog, which originated on the island of Jindo, is known for its loyalty and bravery. They are often used as hunting and guard dogs, and are considered a national treasure. There is even a Korean folk tale about a Jindo dog who saved his village from a tiger!

To summarize, learning the names of animals in Korean can help you to communicate better with native speakers and understand more about Korean culture. If you want to practice your Korean skills, consider using the Polyglot Club to find native speakers and ask them any questions. You can also visit the Korean vocabulary page to learn more words and phrases!


โžก If you have any questions, please ask them in the comments section below.
โžก Feel free to edit this wiki page if you think it can be improved. ๐Ÿ˜Ž