Let’s learn about "너무 마르다”

너무 말랐네요 : You’re so thin/skinny / You’re rather underweight / You’re too thin / You look like skin and bones

[other expressions]

- 너무 말랐다. (to younger people or friends)

- 너무 말랐네. (to younger people or friends)

- 너무 말랐어. (to younger people or friends)

- 너무 말랐군! (to younger people or friends)

- 너무 말랐구나! (to younger people or friends)

- 너무 말랐네요. (honourific by ‘-요’)

- 너무 말랐어요. (honourific by ‘-요’)

- 너무 말랐군요. (honourific by ‘-요’)

- 너무 말랐습니다. (formal; more honourific by ‘스’)

[explanations]

* 너무 = 아주 = 엄청 = 진짜 = 진짜로 = 정말 = 정말로 : too much; really

* 마르다 : (1) dry; get dry; dry up; [=시들다] wither; be seasoned; be parched (2) [=날씬해지다] become [grow] thin [lean]; [수척해지다, 아주 야위다] grow gaunt; [살이 빠지다] lose flesh; [떨어지다, 빠지다, 서서히 줄어들다] fall away; pine away (3) [=목이 마르다] be thirsty; feel thirsty [dry] (4) [=매진되다] run out; [=기진맥진하다] become exhausted; [=다 써버리다] be used up (5) [=자르다] cut out; cut

* 말랐다 : past tense of 마르다 by ‘-았-‘

* 말랐습니다 : 말랐(the stem of 말랐다) + -스(a suffix makes a verb more honourific) + -ㅂ니다(an honourific descriptive verb ending suffix by ‘-ㅂ’)

* 삐쩍 마른 : skinny

- 삐쩍 : very; so much; this always with 마르다 word

- 마른 : 마르(the stem of 마르다) + -ㄴ(a suffix makes a verb present tense and

* 표준 체중 이하의 = 저체중인  : underweight

- 표준 : standard

- 체중 : weight of a body

- 이하 / 이하의 : under

- 저 : lowest

- 체중인 : 체중 + 이(the stem of 이다) + -ㄴ(a suffix makes a verb present tense and attributive)

* 뼈와 거죽만 남은 = 피골이 상접한 : skin and bone

- 뼈 : bone

- 거죽 / 가죽 : skin

- 만 : only

- 남다 : remain

- 남은 : 남(the stem of 남다) + -ㄴ(a suffix makes a verb present perfect and attributive)

- 피골 : skin and bone <— 피(skin) + 골(bone)

- 이 : a particle makes 피골 the topic of the sentence after a word ends in a consonant

* 상접 : contact; touching each other together

* 상접하다 : a verb form of 상접

* 상접한 : 상접하(the stem of 상접하다) + -ㄴ(a suffix makes a verb present perfect and attributive)

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

* a verb + -군! / -구나! : a non-honourific exclamatory verb ending suffix

* a verb + -어 / -네 / -군! + -요 : honourific verb ending suffix

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