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Expressing Your Age
There are two ways of expressing a person’s age in Korean.
1. Pure Korean Number 살
2. Sino-Korean Number 세
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The first way is normally used in everyday speech. The second is used in
more formal situations, such as filling out forms:
(1) 수잔은 스무 살이에요. Susan is twenty years old.
(2) 이름: 수잔 Name: Susan
나이: 20 (이십) 세. Age: 20 years
(Note that Sino-Korean numbers are more often written as digits.)
The pure Korean numbers are provided below. Refer to Unit 9 for
Sino-Korean numbers.
하나 1 둘 2 셋 3 넷 4 다섯 5
여섯 6 일곱 7 여덟 8 아홉 9 열 10
열하나 11 열둘 12 열셋 13 열넷 14 열다섯 15
열여섯 16 열일곱 17 열여덟 18 열아홉 19 스물 20
서른 30 마흔 40 쉰 50 예순 60 일흔 70
여든 80 아흔 90
As previously noted, a modified form of 하나, 둘, 셋, 넷 and 스물 is used in
conjunction with counting nouns such as 살: 한 살, 두 살, 세 살, 네 살, 스무
살. No other numbers are modified. Thus, you would say 다섯 살 or 여덟 살.