"아흔, 여든, 일흔, 예순, 쉰, 마흔, 서른, 스물, 열"

Translation: Ninety, eighty, seventy, sixty, fifty, forty, thirty, twenty, ten

[izabellyohana]

My brain is frying

[HannaBae]

Any tricks to memorize this?

[Michael217793]

The first 5 is easy to remember: 열 스물 서른 마흔 쉰. The following tens confuse me, but I noticed that if you know how to count already, you'd see the correlation.
6 = 여섯 = 여 = 예순
7 = 일곱 = 일 = 일흔
8 = 여덟 = 여 = 여든
9 = 아홉 = 아 = 아흔

[Hzj1j11kk]

Thanks

[nleconte]

Assuming you already now how to count to ten in the Korean counting system, you should note some similarities and/or common roots.

Other than that, I did have some tricks in the past, but they were very specific to my own background and knowledge (and more often than not, NSFW).

E.g. 여든, sounds like Joden, jews, in Dutch, one of my home tongues. The number 8 has strong links with the neonazi movement. I guess you can make the missing link between jews and neonazis. Or 마흔, which sounds like My hun (affective shortened form of honey, darling). There was a particular person at the time who was forty years old and that would fit that description.

As you can see, there are several pieces of personal trivia in there that makes it probably useful only to me as a mnemonic.

My best advice is to make similar stories or links, and I can assure you, they will stick.

[GeraldMath4]

Egads! Proofreading problem again. I didn't notice I had accidentally clicked "woman" instead of "seventy"!

[gracexwooler]

How can i remember all of this

[racheliza711]

is there a broken down version of each number? what is added to "set" to make it "seruen" (sorry, not korean keyboard)

[AidenAN]

*seoreun. Sorry no idea

[conniestar16]

You know it's hard to remember native Korean numbers.

[takenNickname]

외국인한테는 어렵겠네

[moira142592]

is it really wrong to answer (ni "English") with the numbers? I mean 90, 80, 70 etc? Don't really get why it is wrong...

[GeraldMath4]

I think I have successfully done so.

[Calyope3]

I did that and it counted as correct. The problem is fixed now i think, as it worked for me

[daphne2011]

Why i don't see thirty?????

[Duo_Euphoria]

Because you need to open your eyes

[stan.day6]

My non-native-english brain : read the korean > translate it to my native language > translate it to english

[KanKanMikan]

screw native, I'm learning sino.....(jk I know i have to)

[Lloyd76445]

Ahuen, yeoduen, ilhoon, swin, mahuen, seoruen, suemool, yeol

[Calyope3]

You shouldn't use Romanizations, as they mess with the pronunciation. Also, you won't be able to communicate properly with Romanizations anyway.

[Calyope3]

Also 으 is eu, not ue. That would be 웨.

[GeraldMath4]

The ilhoon ain't that good neither.

[NicholasGe711027]

haha, they're combining modern and older romanizations together into a roman amalgamation

[RealityChecker]

fourty*.......anyone...?

[Murakel]

I try every time and every time I get the little red squiggle… fourty just isn't Standard English anymore :(