How does a Korean-English dictionary work?

[shanshanchua]

I'm talking about the hardcopy version. How do you look up Korean words? How are they categorised? Alphabetical order of the romanized words?

Sorry if it's a silly question. I've never seen one before, and am curious.

[John]

In mine well the only one I have thats a good one, the Korean starts with ㄱ, then goes to ㄴ ㄷ, ㄹ ㅁ, ㅂ, ㅅ, ㅇ, ㅈ ㅊ, ㅋ ㅌ, ㅍ ㅎ .

And it lists all the words starting with ㄱ, ie. 가, 가가, 가 감,....가게,...가곡,...가교,...가구,...가그,...etc....

[hyunwoo]

Yes, just like John posted,

The biggest divisions are ㄱ, ㄴ, ㄷ, ~~~~~~, ㅌ, ㅍ, ㅎ

And inside "ㄱ" , everything is then again sorted according to the order of

ㅏ,ㅑ,ㅓ,ㅕ,ㅗ,ㅛ,ㅜ,ㅠ,ㅡ,ㅣ




So 고기 would come before 나비 but after 가방

[shanshanchua]

So I would have to roughly memorise which character comes after which... just like the english alphabet..
An electronic/online dictionary would be much easier then, just type in the word, and out it comes..

[austinfd]

So I would have to roughly memorise which character comes after which... just like the english alphabet..
An electronic/online dictionary would be much easier then, just type in the word, and out it comes..

Yep! One of the reasons Naver is so fun to use... if you type a word in the main search bar, it will offer you suggestions that change as you progressively type...

[holdfast]

[quote="austinfd"Yep! One of the reasons Naver is so fun to use... if you type a word in the main search bar, it will offer you suggestions that change as you progressively type...[/quote]

why doesn't it do that for me?

[javiskefka]

Yep! One of the reasons Naver is so fun to use... if you type a word in the main search bar, it will offer you suggestions that change as you progressively type...

why doesn't it do that for me?

If the word is either spelled wrong, or not very common, nothing will come up.

[thomasz]

thanks, i like this language much I could learn .

[rooraa]

does 왜 come before or after 오이?

what about double characters like ㅆ and ㄸ?

[javiskefka]

1. It comes after.

2. They go immediately after their single consonant counterparts.

[rooraa]

ahhh, I see. Thank you!

[rooraa]

would 이렇게 come before or after 이야기?

is 고양이 before 과일?

(okay, maybe I don't get it....)

[on another note, what is the difference between 지금 and 이제?]

[cmanikus]

as far as the korean-english dictionaries go in paper (vs. electronic), which brand seems to be the best? I've been searching for a good dictionary but it seems that most of them have the romanization which just confuses me. I'm taking classes of korean and my instructor never uses romanization so it would be best if I found a dictionary without this. any suggestions?

[javiskefka]

The best one is Minjung Seorim's Essence dictionary. Search for it on Hanbooks.com to get the best deal.

i have the 4th edition Korean-English one and the 9th edition English-Korean one, and they're both really great.

[javiskefka]

would 이렇게 come before or after 이야기?

is 고양이 before 과일?

The complete order of the consonants is:

ㄱ, ㄲ,ㄴ,ㄷ,ㄸ,ㄹ,ㅁ,ㅂ,ㅃ,ㅅ,ㅆ,ㅇ,ㅈ,ㅉ,ㅊ,ㅋ,ㅌ,ㅍ,ㅎ

The diphthongs, like ㅘ, are actually combinations of vowels, so they are ordered according to where the individual vowels that make them up fit into the order that Hyunwoo posted:

ㅏ,ㅑ,ㅓ,ㅕ,ㅗ,ㅛ,ㅜ,ㅠ,ㅡ,ㅣ

So the complete order is:

ㅏ,ㅐ,ㅑ,ㅒ,ㅓ,ㅔ,ㅕ,ㅖ,ㅗ,ㅘ,ㅙ,ㅚ,ㅛ,ㅜ,ㅝ,ㅞ,ㅟ,ㅠ,ㅡ,ㅢ,ㅣ

on another note, what is the difference between 지금 and 이제?

지금 means 'at this moment', and 이제 means 'at this time'. 이제 is more extensive and encompassing.