6 Ways To Say โHowโ In Korean
When learning Korean, most beginners learn that โhowโ in Korean is ์ด๋ป๊ฒ. While this is correct, there are in fact many different ways to say โhowโ in Korean. Knowing which word for โhowโ to use can be confusing and it is easy to make mistakes.
In English, when saying sentences like โHow much is it?โ and โHow did you do that?โ, the word for โhowโ is the same. However, in Korean, the word for โhowโ changes depending on the situation.
To help you out, we have put together this list of 6 ways to say โhowโ in Korean. So, how do you say โhowโ in Korean? Here are the 6 different ways:
- ์ด๋ป๊ฒ
- ์ด๋
- ์ผ๋ง
- ์ผ๋ง๋
- ๋ช
- ๋ฉฐ์น
Below youโll find a list of the different ways to say how in Korean with an English explanation and some sample sentences to help you learn. To check out how to say โhowโ like a native Korean speaker, check out the video at the bottom of the page.
Ways To Say โHowโ In Korean
1. ์ด๋ป๊ฒ (eo-tteo-ke)
![How In Korean - ์ด๋ป๊ฒ](https://learnkorean24.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/How-In-Korean-์ด๋ป๊ฒ.jpg)
The most common way to say โhowโ in Korean is ์ด๋ป๊ฒ. ์ด๋ป๊ฒ is always followed by a verb. Letโs look at some example sentences with ์ด๋ป๊ฒ.
- ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ์ง๋ด์? โ (How are you doing?)
- ์ด๊ฑฐ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋ง๋ค์์ด์? โ (How did you make this?)
- ์ปคํผ๋ฅผ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋ง์ ์? โ (How do you like your coffee?)
- ๊ทธ ์ฌ๋์ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ์์์? โ (How do you know him/her?)
As you can see in these example sentences, ์ด๋ป๊ฒ is followed by a verb every time.
2. ์ด๋ (eo-ttae)
![How In Korean - ์ด๋](https://learnkorean24.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/How-In-Korean-์ด๋.jpg)
The next word for โhowโ in Korean is ์ด๋. ์ด๋ can be used in casual sentences (e.g. with close friends or people younger than you). The polite form of ์ด๋ is ์ด๋์. ์ด๋ / ์ด๋์ always comes after a noun. Letโs look at some example sentences with ์ด๋.
- ๋ชธ์ ์ข ์ด๋์? โ (How are you feeling?)
- ํด๊ฐ๋ ์ด๋ ์ด์? โ (How was your holiday?)
- ์ ๋จธ๋ฆฌ ์ด๋์? โ (How do you like my hair?)
- ๊ทธ๊ฑฐ ๋ง์ด ์ด๋์? โ (How does it taste?)
- ์ค๋ ๋ฐค์ ์ธ์ ์ด๋์? โ (How about eating out tonight?)
As you can see, in each sentence ์ด๋ is preceded by a noun. In these examples, if you were to use โ์ด๋ป๊ฒโ it would sound strange to a native Korean speaker and would imply a different meaning.
3. ์ผ๋ง (eol-ma)
![How In Korean - ์ผ๋ง](https://learnkorean24.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/How-In-Korean-์ผ๋ง.jpg)
This way to say โhowโ in Korean is used when you are talking about a number, amount, price, or degree that you donโt know exactly. ์ผ๋ง is similar to โhow muchโ in English and is most commonly used when talking about money/price. Letโs look at some example
- ์ด๊ฑฐ ์ผ๋ง์์? โ (How much is this?)
- ์ง์ธ๊ฐ ํ ๋ฌ์ ์ผ๋ง์์? โ (How much is the monthly rent?)
- ๊ทธ ์ฌ๋์ ์ผ๋ ์ ์ผ๋ง๋ฅผ ๋ฒ์ด์? โ (How much does he/she earn?)
- ์ผ๋ง๊ฐ ํ์ํด์? โ (How much do you need?)
4. ์ผ๋ง๋ (eol-ma-na)
![How In Korean - ์ผ๋ง๋](https://learnkorean24.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/How-In-Korean-์ผ๋ง๋.jpg)
์ผ๋ง๋ literally means โhow muchโ. ์ผ๋ง๋ is often followed by an adverb or an adjective. You may also see the expressions ์ผ๋ง๋ ๋ง์ด (how much) and ์ผ๋ง๋ ์ค๋ (how long), but ๋ง์ด and ์ค๋ can usually be dropped as much / long is already implied by the context. Letโs look at some example sentences with ์ผ๋ง๋.
- ํค๊ฐ ์ผ๋ง๋ ๋ผ์? โ (How tall are you?)
- ๊ณตํญ๊น์ง ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ์ผ๋ง๋ ๋ผ์? โ (How far is it to the airport?)
- ์ผ๋ง๋ ์์ฃผ ์ด๋ํด์? โ (How often do you work out?)
- ์์ ๊ฐ ์ผ๋ง๋ (๋ง์ด) ์์ด์? โ (How much homework do you have?)
- ๊ฒฐํผํ ์ง ์ผ๋ง๋ (์ค๋) ๋์์ด์? โ (How long have you been married?)
5. ๋ช (myeot)
![How In Korean - ๋ช](https://learnkorean24.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/How-In-Korean-๋ช.jpg)
๋ช literally means โhow manyโ. ๋ช is always followed by a noun which is a counting unit. For example, the counting unit for people is ๋ช , so to ask โHow many people?โ you would say โ๋ช ๋ช ์ด์์?โ. Letโs look at some example sentences with ๋ช.
- ๋ช ๋ช ์ด์์? โ (How many people?)
- ๋ช ์นผ๋ก๋ฆฌ์์? โ (How many calories?)
- ๋ช ์ด์ด์์? โ (How old are you?)
- ๋ช ๊ฐ ์์ด์? โ (How many did you buy?)
- ๋ณดํต ๋ช ์๊ฐ ์์? โ (How many hours do you usually sleep?)
6. ๋ฉฐ์น (myeo-chil)
We use ๋ฉฐ์น to ask โhow many daysโ in Korean. You can also say ๋ช๋ which also means โhow many daysโ. Many Korean learners assume that ๋ฉฐ์น is ๋ช (how many) + ์ผ (day) but this is incorrect.
Letโs look at some example sentences with ๋ฉฐ์น .
- ์ฃผ๋ฌธํ๋ฉด ๋ฉฐ์น ํ์ ๋ฐ์ ์ ์์ด์? โ (If I order it, after how many days would I receive it?)
- ์์ผ์ด ๋ฉฐ์น ๋จ์์ด์? โ (How many days left until your birthday?)
- ๋ฉฐ์น ๋์ ์ฌ์์ด์? โ (How many days did you take off?)
How In Korean โ Pronunciation
To check out the different ways to say โhowโ in Korean and to check how to pronounce them like a native Korean speaker, check out this great video from Korean Arah.
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