2019-10-01

Let's learn about "도’s usage as a prefix or suffix or a noun etc"

1.   postposition as an adjunct to various forms of speech except an unconjugation adjective.

1) used to encompass or enumerate two or more things (facts). it has a meaning of “and”, “also”, “too”

예) 너도 나도 다 가자 : Let's all go, too.
      노래도 잘하지만 춤도 잘 춘다 : I'm good at singing, but I'm good at dancing
      돈도 명예도 다 싫다 : I hate money, power and honor.

2) Used to enumerate the opposite things (facts) side by side. It's usually used as the shape of '~도 ~도'》

예) 크지도 작지도 않고 딱 좋다 : It's not big, it's not small, it's perfect.
      더도 덜도 말고 한가위[추석]만 같아라 : No more and no less, just like Autumn eve[Harvest moon festival]

3) To anticipate a criterion and indicate 'more or less'

예) 그 사람은 집도 없소 : He doesn't even have a house.
      관람객이 천 명도 더 왔다 갔다 : A thousand more visitors came and went

4) To indicate a similar fact as in other cases

예) 오늘도 몹시 춥구나 : It's also freezing today
      이 극장도 만원일세 : This theater is full as in another

5) indicate a sign of concession/a concession/compromise

예) 밥이 없으면 죽이라도 좋소 : If you don't have rice, i can eat even water gruel
      딸도 귀엽기만 합디다 : My daughter is cute, too

6) To use as an accent/intensification or an exclamation

예) 아이고, 싱겁기도 해라 : Oh, you are very insipid
      오늘 밤은 달도 밝구나 : The moon is very bright tonight

2. Prefix means a 'boss/master' attached to a noun that indicates a rank or position.

예) 도편수 : a master builder
     도사공 : a master potter

3. a noun indicates one of korean local administrative areas. It governs the city and county, etc.

4. a suffix

1) means the year that is attached to the back of most nouns or nouns that represent the year.

예) 내년도 : next year
      88년도 : in 1988

2) The degree to which some nouns are attached is 'quantity'.

예) 안전도 : degree of safety
      지명도 : degree of celebrity

5. a noun

1) If only one of the four mates is allowed to go down by throwing a pair of chopsticks. [The horse is only getting one field better.]

2) The first seat on the board in chopstick game. [Between a field and a dog]

6. a suffix means 'island' that attaches to some nouns that represent a geographical name.

예) 완도 : wan island
     울릉도 : wooleong island
     강화도 : ganghwa island
     무인도 : a desert island; an uninhabited island

7. a noun

1) A measuring tools for measuring the length of an object. A word for all kinds of '자’(a ruler, a measure)

2) degree, precision, limits

예) 도가 지나친 행동 : overstepping behavior

8. a dependent noun

1) unit of angle

예) 90분의 1이 1도 : 90th of a right angle is 1 degree

2) unit of temperature

예) 섭씨 100도 : cesius 100
     화씨 25도 : Fahrenheit 25

3) the unit of longitude and latitude of the earth

예) 북위 38도 : 38th parallel north
      동경 122도 : 122nd meridian east
      서경 100도 : 100th meridian west

4) A unit that counts the number of things

예) 4도 인쇄 : a four-degree printing

5) A unit that represents the strength of one's eyesight or glasses

예) 1.2도의 시력 : 1.2° vision

6) A unit of sound

9. a suffix attached to some Chinese words, it means 'the group' or 'the person attached there'

예) 법학도 : a law student, a jurist
     의학도 : a doctor[medical] student

10. a noun “도” is contracted from “도형”(penal servitude)

11. a noun

1) the right thing to do

2) A religious root meaning, or a profound realization

예) 도를 깨닫다 : realize one's virtue

3) a method of art, martial arts, and defense

12. a suffix attached to the back of some nouns representing the province, it means one of the administrative districts.

예) 경기도 : Gyeonhgi province
      강원도 : Gangwon province

13. a noun indicates the first note of a major scale, or the third name of a minor scale

예) 도•레•미•파•솔•라•시•도 : do•re•mi•fa•sol•ra•si•ti

14. a suffix means ""picture"" and ""plot"" attached to the back of some nouns

예) 산수도 : la andscape picture
      설계도 : a design picture
      평면도 : a plane picture

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