2021-12-11

Let’s learn about "무서워? / 무섭어? / 무서버?"

무서워? : Are you scared?


* Some people rarely pronounce "무섭어?" or "무서버"


[other expressions]

- 무섭니? (to younger people or friends)

- 무섭냐? (to younger people or friends)

- 무서워? (to younger people or friends)

- 무서워요? (honouricic by ‘-요’) 

- 무섭습니까? (formal; more honouricic by ‘스’)


[explanations]

* 무서운 : (1) fearful; dreadful; terrible; frightful; fierce; ferocious; fear; dread; be afraid of [that]; be apprehensiv (lest); scared; frightened (2) awful; terrible; frightful; wonderful


* 무섭다 : [irregular verb; this used as the form of 무서워•무서우니 etc] a verb form of 무서운


* 무섭습니까? : 무섭(the stem of 무섭다) + -스(a suffix makes a verb more honourific) + -ㅂ니까?(an honourific interrogative verb ending suffix)


* a verb + -니? / -냐? / -워? : a non-honourific interrogative verb ending suffix

* a verb + -워요? / -습니까? : an honourific interrogative verb ending suffix

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