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Korean Part-of-Speech Codes

The table below describes the parts of speech used in our comprehensive Korean Lexical Database. Our linguists have made an in-depth analysis of the major theories of Korean word classes, including traditional "school grammar" as well as approaches based on computational linguistics, and developed a simple scheme suitable for most Korean information processing applications such as NLP, IR and IME. The lexical database contains various other grammatical attributes, such as detailed conjugation patterns and verb transitivity codes. For more details, see korpos2.htm.

Nouns 名詞類
POS SUBPOS English Description Japanese Description Binding
Valency
Example
N   generic noun 名詞 0 가객 歌客
NC A verbal noun (noun also adjective) 動名詞 0 가공 可恐
NC P verbal noun (noun also passive verb) 動名詞(名詞兼動詞) 0 실용 實用
NC V verbal noun (noun also verb) 動名詞(名詞兼動詞) 0 설명 說明
NB   bound noun 依存名詞 1  
NC   common noun 普通名詞 0 가건물 假建物
NM   counter 助数詞 1
NN   numeral 数詞 0
NP   proper noun 固有名詞 0 대한민국 大韓民國
NR   pronoun 代名詞 0  
Verbs 動詞類
POS SUBPOS English Description Japanese Description Binding
Valency
Example
V  generic verb 動詞 0 가다  
VC causative verb 使役動詞 0 벌씌우다 罰−
VP(p) passive verb 受動動詞 0 가해지다 加−
VX  irregular verb 不規則動詞 0 기특해하다 奇特−
Others その他
POS SUBPOS English Description Japanese Description Binding
Valency
Example
AA   adnomial adjective 冠形詞 0 소위 所謂
AJ   (regular) adjective 形容詞 0 시다  
AX   irregular adjective 不規則形容詞 0 가능하다 可能−
D   generic adverb 副詞 0 아직  
D A adverb (adverb also adjective) 副詞(副詞兼形容詞) 0 만부득이 萬不得已
D V adverb (adverb also verb) 副詞(副詞兼動詞) 0 주저주저 躊躇躊躇
I   interjection 感嘆詞 0 아니  
PL   particle 助詞 0  
u   unknown 助詞 0  
Affixes 接辞類
POS SUBPOS English Description Japanese Description Binding
Valency
Example
FS   inflectional ending 語尾 1 읍시다  
FS A adjectival ending 補助形容詞 1 싶다  
FS F prefinal ending 補助語幹 1  
FS V auxiliary verb 補助動詞 1 아니하다  
WP   (lexical/derivational) prefix 接頭辞 1
WS   (lexical/derivational) suffix 接尾辞 1
Conjugation Patterns
Conjugation
Pattern
English Description Japanese
Description
EU irregular conjugation in 으 으不規則活用
REU irregular conjugation in 르 르不規則活用
REO irregular conjugation in 러 러不規則活用
U irregular conjugation in 우 우不規則活用
EO irregular conjugation in 어 어不規則活用
P irregular conjugation in ㅂ ㅂ不規則活用
T irregular conjugation in ㄷ ㄷ不規則活用
S irregular conjugation inㅅ ㅅ不規則活用
H irregular conjugation inㅎ ㅎ不規則活用
DWEDA irregular conjugation in 되 되不規則活用
HADA verb/adjective derivational affix하다 動詞/形容詞 派生接尾辞하다
L ㄹ-stem ㄹ語幹