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Unit 8: Telling Time

Telling time in Easy Korean requires knowing both the Native Korean numbers and the Sino-Korean numbers!

Hours (Native Korean Numbers + ์‹œ)

We use Native Korean numbers for the hour (์‹œ). - 1:00 -> ํ•œ ์‹œ (not ํ•˜๋‚˜ ์‹œ) - 2:00 -> ๋‘ ์‹œ (not ๋‘˜ ์‹œ) - 3:00 -> ์„ธ ์‹œ - 4:00 -> ๋„ค ์‹œ - 5:00 -> ๋‹ค์„ฏ ์‹œ ... - 12:00 -> ์—ด๋‘ ์‹œ

Minutes (Sino-Korean Numbers + ๋ถ„)

We use Sino-Korean numbers for the minute (๋ถ„). - 10 minutes -> ์‹ญ ๋ถ„ - 15 minutes -> ์‹ญ์˜ค ๋ถ„ - 30 minutes -> ์‚ผ์‹ญ ๋ถ„ (or ๋ฐ˜ meaning "half")

Examples

  • ์ง€๊ธˆ ๋ช‡ ์‹œ์˜ˆ์š”? (What time is it now?)
  • ์„ธ ์‹œ ์‹ญ์˜ค ๋ถ„์ด์—์š”. (It is 3:15.)
  • ์—ด ์‹œ ๋ฐ˜์— ๋งŒ๋‚˜์š”. (Let's meet at 10:30.)