| Parts of Speech and Other Terms | 품사 (品詞) | ||||
| Part | Abbreviation | Korean | Brief description | ||
| Noun | n. | 명사 | person, place or thing | ||
| Verb | v. | 동사 | expresses an action or state | ||
| Adjective | adj. | 형용사 | describes a noun | ||
| Adverb | adv. | 부사 | describes a verb | ||
| Pronoun | pron. | 대명사 | takes the place of a noun | ||
| Preposition | prep. | 전치사 | indicates position, direction, time | ||
| Conjunction | conj. | 접속사 | connects words, phrases, clauses | ||
| Interjection | int. | 감탄사 | expresses emotion (exclamation) | ||
| (hi, bye, well, wow, oops, sorry…) | |||||
| Article | art. | 관사(冠詞) | a, an, the | ||
| Auxiliary verb | aux. | 조동사 | forms tenses, voices, moods of other verbs | ||
| Gerund | ger. | 동명사 | -ing form of a verb used as a noun | ||
| Past participle | p.p. | 과거분사 | forms perfect tenses (완료시제) | ||
| Infinitive | inf. | 부정사 | original form of a verb - (to ~) | ||
| Singular | sing. | 단수(單數) | one of something | ||
| Plural | pl. | 복수형 | more than one of something | ||
| Tense | t. | 동사의 시제 | indicates time of action | ||
| Antonym | ant. | 반의어 | opposite definition | ||
| Abbreviation | abbr. | 약어표시 | short form of a word or phrase | ||
| Synonym | syn. | 비슷한 말 | word with a similar meaning | ||
| Person | 인칭(人稱) | point of reference | |||
| Context | 전후 관계 | relationship of a word in a sentence | |||
| Contraction | 단축(短縮) 형 | short form of a word or words | |||
| The following sentence contains 9 parts of speech: | |||||
| Wow! She and the brave wizard slowly flew to the castle. | |||||
| mnemonic: | PAPA VINC | ||||
| colloquial speech | 구어(口語)의 | ||||
| slang | 속어(俗語) | ||||
| idioms | 숙어(熟語) | ||||
| formal speech | 학문의 회화 | ||||
| informal speech | 구어체 - (회화) | ||||