TOPIK TOPIK Korean Numbers and Counters 3 โ Questions and Answers
Question 1: What is the correct way to express 'at 3:30 PM' using Korean time expressions?
- ์ผ์ ์ผ์ญ๋ถ ์คํ
- ์คํ ์ธ ์ ์ผ์ญ ๋ถ (Correct answer)
- ์คํ ์ผ ์ ์ผ์ญ ๋ถ
- ์ธ ์ ๋ฐ ์คํ
Correct answer: ์คํ ์ธ ์ ์ผ์ญ ๋ถ
Time is expressed as ์คํ (PM) + Native Korean hour (์ธ ์) + Sino-Korean minutes (์ผ์ญ ๋ถ).
Question 2: Which counter is used for clothing items or sets of clothes in Korean?
- ์ฅ
- ๊ฐ
- ๋ฒ (Correct answer)
- ์ผค๋
Correct answer: ๋ฒ
๋ฒ is the counter for articles or sets of clothing, such as '์ท ํ ๋ฒ' (one set/outfit of clothes).
Question 3: How do you say 'two pairs of shoes' in Korean using the correct counter?
- ์ ๋ฐ ๋ ๊ฐ
- ์ ๋ฐ ๋ ๋ฒ
- ์ ๋ฐ ๋ ์ผค๋ (Correct answer)
- ์ ๋ฐ ๋ ์กฑ
Correct answer: ์ ๋ฐ ๋ ์ผค๋
์ผค๋ is the counter for pairs of shoes, socks, or gloves โ so 'two pairs of shoes' is ์ ๋ฐ ๋ ์ผค๋ .
Question 4: Which of the following correctly uses a counter for ordering food at a restaurant?
- ๋น๋น๋ฐฅ ํ ๋ช ์ฃผ์ธ์
- ๋น๋น๋ฐฅ ํ ๊ทธ๋ฆ ์ฃผ์ธ์ (Correct answer)
- ๋น๋น๋ฐฅ ํ ๊ถ ์ฃผ์ธ์
- ๋น๋น๋ฐฅ ํ ์ฅ ์ฃผ์ธ์
Correct answer: ๋น๋น๋ฐฅ ํ ๊ทธ๋ฆ ์ฃผ์ธ์
๊ทธ๋ฆ is the counter for bowls of food, so '๋น๋น๋ฐฅ ํ ๊ทธ๋ฆ' means one bowl of bibimbap.
Question 5: What counter is used for counting long, thin objects such as pencils or sticks?
- ๊ฐ
- ์๋ฃจ (Correct answer)
- ๊ถ
- ํธ
Correct answer: ์๋ฃจ
์๋ฃจ is the counter for long, thin objects with handles such as pencils, brushes, and umbrellas.
Question 6: In Korean, how is the phrase 'the second month' (February) correctly expressed?
- ๋ ๋ฒ์งธ ๋ฌ
- ์ด์ (Correct answer)
- ์ด ๊ฐ์
- ๋์งธ ์
Correct answer: ์ด์
Months of the year use Sino-Korean numbers + ์, so February is ์ด์ (ไบๆ).
TOPIK TOPIK Korean Numbers and Counters 3
What is the correct way to express 'at 3:30 PM' using Korean time expressions?