2022-02-22

Let’s learn about "난 빈털털린데”

나 빈털털이야 : I’m broke


[other expressions]

- (나) 빈털털이다. (to younger people or friends)

- (나) 빈털털이네. (to younger people or friends)

- (나) 빈털털인데. (to younger people or friends)

- (나) 빈털컬이야. (to younger people or friends)

- (저) 반털털인데요. (honourific by ‘-요’)

- (저) 빈털털입니다. (formal; honourific by ‘-ㅂ’)


[explanations]

* 나 : I (non-honourific to younger peoloe or friends)

* 저 : I (honourific to the elderly)

* -는 : a particle makes 나 / 저 subjective after a word ends in a vowel; this omitted


* 빈털털이 : begger; pauper; poor person; a broken person <— 빈(empty) + 털(=털리다: be cleaned out, be emptied out; be[get] robbed (of), be stolen) + 털(this repeated again for emphasis) + 이(a suffix means "person")


* 이다 : be


* -인데 : 이(the stem of 이다) + -ㄴ데(a non-honourific descriptive verb ending suffix; ㄴ데 used after the stem of a word ends in a vowel)

* -이야 : 이(the stem of 이다) + -야(a non-honourific descriptive verb ending suffix)

* -입니다 : 이(the stem of 이다) + -ㅂ니다(an honourific descriptive verb ending suffix)


* a verb + -다 / -네 / -ㄴ데 / -야 : a non-honourific descriptive verb ending suffix

* a verb + -네 / -ㄴ데 + -요 : a non-honourific verb ending suffix

* a verb + -ㅂ니다 : an honourific descriptive verb ending suffix by ‘-ㅂ’

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