먼저
Romanisation: meonjeo
first
Example sentence
먼저 손을 씻으세요.
Meonjeo soneul ssiseuseyo.
Wash your hands first.
What 먼저 means
먼저 (meonjeo) is a Korean word meaning “first”. It belongs to the Grammar & Phrases topic and appears at Level 2, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Korean.
More Grammar & Phrases words
Level 2
-았어요/었어요
-asseoyo/eosseoyo
completed-action particle (past tense ending)
으로
euro
toward
에서부터
eseobuteo
away from (distance)
벌써
beolsseo
already
고 있다
go itda
in the middle of (doing)
제일
jeil
the most
그래서
geuraeseo
so; therefore
하지 마세요
haji maseyo
don't
게
ge
(degree particle)
매
mae
every
에게
ege
passive marker (by)
꼭
kkok
must; without fail